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Vinay Lal's Degrees

PhD History University of Chicago
Masters History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Vinay Lal is a historian of India. He 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, 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. He is known for his radical political views and for making his history lectures available for free on his YouTube channel.

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Vinay Lal's Published Works

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Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (1990) (150)
Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (2002) (54)
The Politics of History on the Internet: Cyber-Diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu Diaspora (1999) (53)
Gandhi and the Ecological Vision of Life (2000) (45)
Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema (2007) (28)
The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (2005) (26)
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness by Ruby Lal (review) (2013) (23)
Subaltern Studies and its Critics: Debates over Indian History (2001) (21)
Nakedness, non‐violence, and the negation of negation: Gandhi's experiments in Brahmacharya and celibate sexuality (1999) (21)
The concentration camp and development: the pasts and future of genocide (2005) (20)
The Cultural Politics of Hybridity (1997) (20)
Dissenting knowledges, open futures : the multiple selves and strange destinations of Ashis Nandy (2002) (19)
The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America (2008) (15)
Travails of the nation (2005) (12)
Everyday Crime, Native Mendacity and the Cultural Psychology of Justice in Colonial India (1999) (12)
Genocide, Barbaric Others, and the Violence of Categories: A Response to Omer Bartov (1998) (12)
The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the 21st Century (2005) (11)
Edward Said—Accidental Feminist: Orientalism and Middle East Women's Studies (2005) (8)
Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (review) (2004) (8)
Gandhi’s West, the West’s Gandhi (2009) (8)
Unhitching the disciplines: history and the social sciences in the new millennium (2002) (8)
The History of History (2003) (8)
The Incident of the ‘Crawling Lane’: Women in the Punjab Disturbances of 1919 (2012) (7)
The politics of culture and knowledge after postcolonialism: Nine theses (and a prologue) (2012) (7)
Virtual Terrorism: How Modern Terrorists Use the Internet (2008) (6)
SOUTH ASIAN POPULAR CULTURE (2007) (6)
Of cricket, guinness, and Gandhi : essays on Indian History and culture (2005) (6)
Sikh Kirpans in California Schools: The Social Construction of Symbols, Legal Pluralism, and the Politics of Diversity (1996) (6)
Unanchoring Islands: An Introduction to the Special Issue on 'Islands: Waterways, Flowways, Folkways' (2000) (6)
MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING: THE NEW MALAISE OF WORLD HISTORY (2019) (6)
Hinduism in South Africa: Caste, Ethnicity, and Invented Traditions, 1860-Present (2013) (6)
Political Hinduism : the religious imagination in public spheres (2009) (6)
The Disciplines in Ruins: History, the Social Sciences, and Their Categories in the 'New Millennium' (2002) (5)
Committees of inquiry and discourses of 'law and order' in twentieth-century British India (1992) (5)
Framing a Discourse : china and india in the Modern World (2009) (5)
Hill stations: Pinnacles of the Raj (1997) (4)
Review Essay: Sovereign Immunity: Law in an Unequal World (1996) (4)
The enigmas of exile: reflections on Edward Said (2003) (4)
Discipline and authority (1997) (4)
Gandhi' s Religion: Politics, Faith, and Hermeneutics (2013) (4)
Gandhi’s Religion: Politics, Faith, and Hermeneutics (2013) (3)
Gandhi, the civilizational crucible, and the future of dissent (1999) (3)
the Gandhi everyone loves to Hate (2008) (3)
World History and Its Politics (2011) (3)
On the Rails of Modernity: Communalism's Journey in India (2002) (3)
Climate Change: Insights from Hinduism (2015) (3)
The Tragi‐Comedy of the New Indian Enlightenment: An Essay on the Jingoism of Science and the Pathology of Rationality (2005) (3)
Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830 (2017) (3)
Race and Capitalism: Global Territories, Transnational Histories (2018) (3)
Mandela, Luthuli, and Nonviolence in the South African Freedom Struggle (2014) (3)
India in the world: Hinduism, the Diaspora, and the Anxiety of Influence (2003) (3)
Colonialism and the call to freedom (2011) (2)
The Strange & Beguiling Relationship of Pakistan & India (2008) (2)
Indian Servitude in the British Empire (2017) (2)
Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India—The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852–1928 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 (1994) (1)
Sanctions and the Politics of Dominance, Multilateralism, and Legalism in the International Arena (1997) (1)
The Politics and Consequences of Eurocentrism in University Disciplines (2012) (1)
The Killer as Auteur (2007) (1)
Making and unmaking the city : politics, culture, and life forms (2013) (1)
The security fantasies of the Indian nation‐state: Black cat commandos, gunmen, and other terrors∗ (1997) (1)
State, Civil Society, and the Right to Dissent: Some Thoughts on Censorship in Contemporary India (2014) (1)
South Asian Cultural Studies: A Bibliography (1996) (1)
Rwanda and the Desperation of France (2007) (1)
India and the Challenge of the Global South (2019) (1)
Walking with the Subalterns, Riding with the Academy: The Curious Ascendancy of Indian History (2001) (1)
Gandhi, ‘The Coloured Races’, and the Future of Satyagraha: The View from the African American Press (2021) (1)
Fences and Xenophobes (2006) (0)
History as Holocaust (2005) (0)
The city in its plenitude (2013) (0)
Section I: Resistances and Reflections (2005) (0)
The Politics and Metaphysics of Intellectual Practices (2016) (0)
A Special Thanks to Reviewers (1992) (0)
Ascendancy of Indian History Walking with the Subalterns , Riding with the Academy : The Curious (2006) (0)
Gandhi Against Caste (2019) (0)
Defining a Legacy (2011) (0)
Book Review: Historical Thinking in South Asia: A Handbook of Sources from Colonial Times to the Present (2004) (0)
Politics and Economy of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Historical Perspective (2020) (0)
Terrorism as a Way of Life (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Advaita's Waterloo (1993) (0)
India and the Unthinkable: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics (2016) (0)
Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India (review) (2004) (0)
Subalterns in the Academy (2005) (0)
The Burden (And Freedom) of Photography (2000) (0)
Living in the Shadows: Injustice, Racism and Poverty in the Indian Diaspora (2009) (0)
Terrorism as a Way of Life (2001) (0)
The Hindu, the Muslim, and the Border in Nationalist South Asian Cinema (2018) (0)
The Russian Revolution in the Indian nationalist imaginary (2021) (0)
The Air War Some Dissenting Views (1992) (0)
India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War. By Yasmin Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvi, 416 pp. ISBN: 9780199753499 (cloth). (2019) (0)
The Colonial State: Theory and Practice. By Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. Delhi: Primus Books, 2016. 228 pp. ISBN: 9789384092016 (cloth). (2018) (0)
Rwandan Summer of 1994 (2000) (0)
The Burden (and Freedom) of Photography: A Review Essay (2000) (0)
Masculinity and Femininity in The Chess Players 1 Sexual Moves, Colonial Manoeuvres, and an Indian Game (1996) (0)
Contours of the Past, Shape of the Future (2005) (0)
The Cultural Politics and Political Sociology of Indian “Land-Grabbing” in Ethiopia (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
History and Politics (2017) (0)
Book Review: Edward Said, Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward Said, editorial collective (London: Bloomsbury, 2004, 485 pp., £20.00 hbk.) (2004) (0)
A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement by John Stratton Hawley (review) (2017) (0)
In this issue (2009) (0)
Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives. By Sunil Khilnani. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Pp. ix, 449. $30.00.) (2018) (0)
“Britain’s Own Muslim Polymath:” On the Politics of Representing Ziauddin Sardar (2021) (0)
The Rhetoric of English India. Sara Suleri (1995) (0)
Scholar, Weaver of Tales, and a Friend to All: Reminiscences of Teshome H. Gabriel (1939-2010) (2011) (0)
ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE POPULAR AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN INDIA (2007) (0)
The Vanquisher and the Vanquished: Nagasaki and Two Uncommon Lives (2010) (0)
The History of Ahistoricity (2005) (0)
Beyond Alterity : The English and Otherness in India a review (2016) (0)
Aryavarta and Silicon Valley (2005) (0)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South (2019) (0)
From Pax Americana to Pox American (1995) (0)

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