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'''Sudipta Kaviraj''' (born 1945) is a scholar of [[South Asian]] [[Politics]] and [[Intellectual History]], often associated with [[Postcolonial]] and [[Subaltern Studies]].{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} He is currently teaching at [[Columbia University]] in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/sudipta-kaviraj|title=Sudipta Kaviraj Biography|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>

==Education==

Sudipta Kaviraj was a student of Political Science at the [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/polsc_history.php|title=History of the Department|publisher=Presidency University}}</ref> He received his [[Ph.D.]] from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jnu.ac.in/sss/archive-news_events|title=Archives|publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru University}}</ref>

==Career==

He is a Professor of South Asian Politics and South Asian Intellectual History, as well as the former department chair of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department at [[Columbia University]]. Prior to joining Columbia University, he was a [[Professor]] in [[Politics]] in the Department of Politics at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] at the [[University of London]].{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} He was also Associate Professor of Political Science at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|JNU]], [[New Delhi]].{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} He also held a Visiting Fellowship at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]].{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

He was a founding member of the [[Subaltern Studies Collective]].

==Opinions==

*The Enchantment of Democracy and India” (Permanent Black 2011)
<blockquote>"The history of modern India tells us a complex, surprising, captivating, and yet unconcluded story of freedom. It is appropriate to express a Tocquevillesque astonishment at this historical phenomenon. If we look from age to age, from the earliest antiquity to the present day, we can agree with Tocqueville that nothing like this has ever happened before. We have not yet seen the end of this unprecedented historical process… For, the eventual shape of the destination of this process might be unclear, but the movement towards a greater expansion of freedom is irreversible."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/Readers-Editor/from-principle-to-practice/article4351061.ece | title = From principle to practice | author = [[The Hindu]]}}</ref></blockquote>

==Selected publications==
*''The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India'', 1993, {{ISBN|0-19-564585-5}}
*''Politics in India'', [[Oxford University Press]], 1999, {{ISBN|0-19-564873-0}}
*''Civil Society: History and Possibilities'', [[Cambridge University Press]], 2001, {{ISBN|0-521-63344-3}}
*"Imaginary Institutions of India", Permanent Black, 2010, {{ISBN|81-7824-357-1}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/ Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department Website]

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