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'''Sunil Khilnani''' is a professor of politics and history at [[Ashoka University]], [[India]]. Previously, he was a professor of politics and the Director of the [[King's College London]] India Institute. He is a scholar of [[India]]n history and politics best known as the author of ''[[The Idea of India]]'' (1997). He was the presenter of a [[BBC Radio 4]] series entitled ''Incarnations: India in 50 Lives'', which was later published as a book in 2016.<ref>William Dalrymple, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/14/incarnations-india-in-50-lives-fifty-sunil-khilnani-review-ghandi-nehru Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani – review], ''The Guardian'', 16 March 2016.</ref><ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/global/indiainstitute/people/sunilkhilnani/index.aspx |title=King's College London - Professor Sunil Khilnani |website=Kcl.ac.uk |date=2016-03-31 |access-date=2016-04-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110417/jsp/frontpage/story_13864458.jsp | location=Calcutta, India | work=The Telegraph | first=Amit | last=Roy | title=In UK pipeline: a new-India institute | date=17 April 2011}}</ref>
He was a 2010 [[Berlin Prize]] Fellow, and he was also a recipient of the Indian government's 2005 [[Pravasi Bharatiya Samman]] award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/sga/kii/people/sunilkhilnani/index.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306214553/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/sga/kii/people/sunilkhilnani/index.aspx |archive-date=6 March 2016 }}</ref>

==Life==
Khilnani was born in [[New Delhi]] and grew up on the continents of [[Africa]], [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. He earned a [[First-Class Honours|first]] at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]], and PhD at [[King’s College, Cambridge]].<ref name="bio" />

He was Starr Foundation Professor at the [[Johns Hopkins University]]’s [[School of Advanced International Studies]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu/khemka/khilnani |title=Arguing Democracy: Intellectuals and Politics in Modern India | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) |website=Casi.ssc.upenn.edu |date=2009-04-30 |access-date=2016-04-08}}</ref> and Director of South Asia Studies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/regional-studies/southasia/faculty/khilnani.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=24 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528073635/http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/regional-studies/southasia/faculty/khilnani.htm |archive-date=28 May 2010 }}</ref> He has also served on the Humanities and Social Sciences juries for the [[Infosys Prize]] from 2013 to 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Humanities Jury|first=Infosys Science Foundation|date=|title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2015|url=https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2015.asp#Humanities|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

He is married to the writer [[Katherine Boo]].

==Works==

===Books===
* {{cite book | last = Khilnani | first = Sunil | title = Arguing Revolution: the intellectual left in postwar France | publisher = [[Yale University Press]] | location = [[New Haven]] | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780300057454 }}
* {{cite book | last = Khilnani | first = Sunil | title = The Idea of India | publisher = [[Farrar Straus Giroux]] | location = [[New York City|New York]] | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780374525910 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Khilnani | first1 = Sunil | last2 = Kaviraj | first2 = Sudipta | author-link2 = Sudipta Kaviraj | title = Civil Society: history and possibilities | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | location = [[Cambridge]], UK and New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780521002905 }}
* {{cite book | last = Khilnani | first = Sunil | title = Incarnations: India in 50 Lives | publisher = [[Allen Lane]] | location = [[London]] | year = 2016 | isbn = 9780241208229 }}

===Chapters in books===
* {{Citation | last = Khilnani | first = Sunil | contribution = Democracy and its Indian pasts | editor-last1 = Kanbur | editor-first1 = Ravi | editor-last2 = Basu | editor-first2 = Kaushik | editor-link1= Ravi Kanbur | editor-link2 = Kaushik Basu | title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development | pages = 488–502 | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | location = [[Oxford]] and New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780199239979 | postscript = .}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.esmt.org/eng/about-esmt/review-of-open-lecture-with-sunil-khilnani/ Esmt.org]
*[http://www.thenation.com/authors/sunil-khilnani Thenation.com]
*[http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/sunil-khilnani Foreignaffairs.com]

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