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Place of Birth: Delhi, India
About Vinay Lal
- Vinay Lal is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCLA.
- He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India (especially cinema), historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems. Lal was born in India in 1961 and grew up in Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, and Washington, D.C.
- He spent four years in Tokyo, 1965–69, but has almost no memory of those years; and it is not until 1987 that he returned to Japan for a short visit, followed by a lengthier stay of four months in Osaka in 1999 when he was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku).
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