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PhD History University of Chicago
Masters History University of Chicago
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Daud Ali is an American historian of Indian descent. Early life Daud Ali was born in Calcutta, India, to a Bengali father and an American mother. Career Daud Ali's 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 and Indian philosophy. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and religious studies at the College of William & Mary and then obtained a Master of Arts degree in the history of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School 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. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021 he was appointed Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India (2004) (90)
Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia (2000) (36)
Invoking the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia (2001) (32)
A poem at the right moment : remembered verses from premodern South India (1999) (32)
Ethical Life in South Asia (2011) (30)
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India (2011) (29)
Royal Eulogy as World History: Rethinking Copper-Plate Inscriptions in Cola India (2000) (26)
Royal Eulogy as World History: Rethinking Copper-Plate Inscriptions in Cola India (2000) (26)
Technologies of the Self: Courtly Artifice and Monastic Discipline in Early India (1998) (25)
Temporality, narration and the problem of history: A view from Western India c. 1100–1400 (2013) (20)
The idea of the medieval in the writing of South Asian history: contexts, methods and politics (2014) (19)
Connected Histories?: Regional Historiography and Theories of Cultural Contact Between Early South and Southeast Asia (2009) (16)
Gardens in Early Indian Court Life (2003) (15)
Anxieties of Attachment: The Dynamics of Courtship in Medieval India (2002) (15)
Rethinking the History of the Kāma World in Early India (2011) (11)
The Historiography of the Medieval in South Asia (2012) (11)
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD: CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING, THE IMPACT ON THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN NIGERIA (2014) (9)
Between Market and Court: The Careers of two Courtier-Merchants in the Twelfth-Century Deccan (2009) (9)
Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India : histories from the Deccan (2012) (7)
Padmaśrī’s Nāgarasarvasva and the World of Medieval Kāmaśāstra (2011) (6)
Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden: Translating Wonder across the Indian Ocean, circa 800–1100 CE (2016) (6)
Friendship in Indian History: Introduction (2017) (5)
13. The Early Inscriptions of Indonesia and the Problem of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (2011) (5)
Text and Practice: Essays on South Asian History (2006) (5)
Botanical Technology and Garden Culture in Someśvara’s Mānasollāsa (2020) (5)
War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire* (2006) (5)
TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURAL CURRICULUM OF HIGHER INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA (4)
Regimes of pleasure in early India : a genealogy of practices at the Cola court (1998) (4)
The service retinues of the Chola court: a study of the term veḷam in Tamil inscriptions (2007) (4)
Violence, Gastronomy and the Meanings of War in Medieval South India (2000) (3)
The Subhasita as and Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India (2010) (3)
The Death of a Friend: Companionship, Loyalty and Affiliation in Chola South India (2017) (3)
Violence, courtly manners and lineage formation in early medieval India 1 (2021) (2)
Recognizing Europe in India: Colonial master narratives and the writing of Indian History (1998) (2)
Indian Historical Writing, c.600–c.1400 (2018) (2)
Leadership styles of managers of Arab schools in Malaysia, their relationship to morale. (2012) (2)
Hemchandra Raychaudhuri: Political history of ancient India: from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty. Revised edition with commentary by B. N. Mukherjee . xxxv, 849 pp., 5 foldout maps. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. £32.50. (1999) (1)
Courtly cultures: western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan (2015) (1)
Cosmos, Realm and Property in Early Medieval Kingdoms (2008) (1)
Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu, Leslie C. Orr (2001) (1)
Rethinking Early Medieval India: A Reader (2014) (1)
Cynthia Talbot. The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000. (2017) (0)
The Erotic “World” of the Kamasutra (2019) (0)
A New Inscription of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśins of Dakṣiṇa Kosala (2022) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Islamic Connections: Connected Histories? Regional Historiography and Theories of Cultural Contact Between Early South and Southeast Asia (2009) (0)
Colonial Indology; Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. By Dilip K. Chakrabarti. pp. 257. Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1997. (1998) (0)
Book Review: Kesavan. Veluthat, The Early Medieval in South India (2012) (0)
Verses at the Court of the King: Shifts in the Historical Imagination of the Sanskrit Literary Tradition during the Second Millennium (2021) (0)
Book review: Osmund Bopearachchi and Suchandra Ghosh, eds, Early Indian History and Beyond: Essays in Honour of B. D. Chattopadhyaya (2021) (0)
romila thapar: early india (from the origins to ad 1300). 556 pp. london: penguin, 2002. £30. (2005) (0)
Ludden David (ed): Contesting the nation: religion, community and the politics of democracy in India . (South Asia Seminar Series.) xi, 346 pp. Philadelphia: Uiniversity of Pennsylvania, 1995. £37.95 (paper £18.95). (1998) (0)
RICHARD SALOMON: Indian epigraphy: a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages. xxi, 378 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. £45. (2001) (0)
Book Review: Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (2013) (0)
Romantic Love, Self-Regard and the Courtly Environment in Early Medieval India (2009) (0)
KUMKUM ROY, The Emergence of Monarchy in North India: Eighth to Fourth Centuries B.C. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. 344 pp. £15.99. (1998) (0)
Censured sexual acts and early medieval society in India (2012) (0)
Towards a history of courtly emotions in early medieval India, c. 300–700 CE (2021) (0)
Book Review: Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval ‘Hindu-Muslim’ Encounter (2013) (0)
Aristocratic Body Techniques in Early Medieval India (2008) (0)
VIDI ŚĀ AND ITS ENVIRONS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA: Research Group Working Paper Historiography of Early Medieval India (2020) (0)
Richard Davis: Lies of Indian images. xvii, 331 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. £30. $39.50. (1998) (0)
Notes Toward Understanding Secular Processions in Medieval South India (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2013) (0)
The Honorary Editor's Preface: Situating Sanskrit after the Sultanates (2021) (0)
South Asia (1999) (0)
SUSTAINABILITY IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION : THE MANAGEMENT AND CHALLENGIES OF STAKEHOLDERS IN THE INDUSTRY (2016) (0)
Foreword (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)

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