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{{short description|American historian of Indian decent|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Daud Ali
|image =
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1964}}
|birth_place = [[Kolkata]], India
|nationality = American
|workplaces = [[School of Oriental and African Studies]]<br>[[University of Pennsylvania]]
|alma_mater = [[College of William & Mary]]<br>[[University of Chicago Divinity School]]
}}

'''Daud Ali''' (born 1964) is an American historian of Indian descent.

==Early life==
Daud Ali was born in [[Calcutta]], India to a Bengali father and an American mother. He moved to [[Baltimore]], United States when he was two years old. His Bengali father and his own interest in Indian philosophy led him to study [[South Asian history]] in college. He went on to study [[Sanskrit]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Indian philosophy]]. He obtained B.A. in [[English literature]] and religious studies at the [[College of William & Mary]] and then obtained M.A. in the history of religions at the [[University of Chicago Divinity School]]<ref name=farhorizons>{{cite web|url=https://www.farhorizons.com/our-tour-scholars-leaders/daud-ali-biography-and-tours/|title=Daud Ali Biography and Tours|publisher=Far Horizons Archaeological & Cultural Trips, Inc.|date=August 25, 2015|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> where he was a student of [[Ron Inden]]. His thesis on medieval South Indian history led him to a Ph.D. from the [[University of Chicago]], after which he taught history of ancient India for 14 years at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] in London.<ref name=thedp>{{cite news|author=Tarlow, Naomi|url=http://www.thedp.com/article/2010/01/learning_with_a_professor_who_spans_the_ages|title=Learning with a professor who spans the ages|newspaper=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]|date=19 January 2010|accessdate=16 May 2019}}</ref> Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].

In 2018, he was working on [[Chola dynasty]] and had stumbled on works by [[Norbert Elias]], which caught his and [[Burton Stein]]'s interest.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/hitopadesha-is-largely-self-help-literature-daud-ali/article24114827.ece|author=Chunkath, Aadarsh|title=Hitopadesha is largely self-help literature: Daud Ali|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=9 June 2018|accessdate=16 May 2019}}</ref>

==Publications==
*{{cite book|author=Daud Ali (ed.)|title=Invoking the Past: the Uses of History in South Asia|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1999|place=[[Delhi]]}}
*{{cite book|author=Daud Ali, Ronald Inden and Jonathan Walters|title=Querying the Medieval: The History of Practice in South Asia|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|place=[[New York City|New York]]}}
*{{cite book|author=Daud Ali|title=Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2004}}
*{{cite book|author=Daud Ali and Anand Pandian (eds.)|title=Ethical Life in South Asia|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|year=2010}}
*{{cite book|author=Daud Ali and Indra Sengupta (eds.)|title=Knowledge Production, Pedagogy and Institutions in Colonial India|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan|Palgrave]]|year=2011|place=New York}}
*{{cite book|author=Daud Ali and Emma Flatt (eds.)|title=Garden and Landscape Practices in Precolonial India: Histories from the Deccan|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2011|place=London}}

==Tours==
He led an annual tour to southern India for Far Horizons Archaeological and Cultural Trips.<ref name=farhorizons/>

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