Sunil Khilnani

Sunil Khilnani is a Professor of Politics and Director of the King's College London India Institute. He is a scholar of Indian 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.[1][2][3] He was a 2010 Berlin Prize Fellow, and he is a recipient of the Indian government's 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award.[4]

Life

Khilnani was born in New Delhi and grew up on the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia. He earned a first at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and PhD at King’s College, Cambridge.[2]

He was Starr Foundation Professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies,[5] and Director of South Asia Studies.[6]

He is married to the writer Katherine Boo.

Works

Books

  • Khilnani, Sunil (1993). Arguing revolution: the intellectual left in postwar France. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300057454.
  • Khilnani, Sunil (1999). The idea of India. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 9780374525910.
  • Khilnani, Sunil; Kaviraj, Sudipta (2001). Civil society: history and possibilities. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521002905.
  • Khilnani, Sunil (2016). Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9780241208229.

Chapters in books

  • Khilnani, Sunil (2009), "Democracy and its Indian pasts", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik, Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 488–502, ISBN 9780199239979.

References

  1. ↑ William Dalrymple, Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani – review, The Guardian, 16 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 "King's College London - Professor Sunil Khilnani". Kcl.ac.uk. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  3. ↑ Roy, Amit (17 April 2011). "In UK pipeline: a new-India institute". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Arguing Democracy: Intellectuals and Politics in Modern India | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)". Casi.ssc.upenn.edu. 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
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