Gyanendra PandeyArts & Sciences Distinguished Professor

Gyanendra Pandey (B.A. University of Delhi; D.Phil., University of Oxford)
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, and Director, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Workshop, Department of History, Emory University.

Before moving to Emory, Pandey taught at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; the University of Delhi; and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, among other places. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities and research institutions in India, the UK, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and the USA.

A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, he has focused his research on South Asia and the USA. Among his single-authored works are Men at Home - Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2025); A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the United States (2013); Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001). He is currently working on a revised and enlarged edition of Remembering Partition; Hindustani Aadmi Ghar Mein: Azadi ke “aur” pehlu, “aur” itihas (a Hindi transcreation of his book on Men at Home in Colonial and Postcolonial India); and a book on politics and democracy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in which India and the USA serve as primary examples.

At Emory, Pandey has worked actively to develop a dialogue between historians and social scientists working on the North and the South. He has organized international, interdisciplinary workshops around questions of marginality, subalternity and difference, unarchived histories, and the practice of democracy. Publications following from the workshops include a specially edited guest issue of the postcolonial studies journal, Interventions (2008); and three major edited anthologies, Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA (2010), Subalternity and Difference: Investigations from the North and the South (2011), and Un-archived Histories: the “Mad” and the “Trifling” (2014).