Dipesh Chakrabarty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Indian historian

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1948

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Profession: professor, historian, author, sociologist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948, in Kolkata, India) is an Indian historian, who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.
He is the Lawrence A.
Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago, and is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, named for Professor Arnold J.
Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity.