Dinyar Patel

Dinyar Patel
Dinyar Patel

Dinyar Patel is an assistant professor of history at S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai and a research affiliate at Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 2020).

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Review

The Rise and Fall of the Sassoons

The rise and fall of a business empire of colonial Bombay is a story about global capitalism on the one hand, and diasporas and minority identity, on the other.
▶06-Oct-2022
Dinyar Patel
Review

An Indian Liberal in the Empire

A biography of Srinivasa Sastri, long considered an irrelevant figure in colonial India, highlights his contribution to the making of the modern liberal international order and to putting Indian…
▶15-Dec-2021
Dinyar Patel
Review

Himalayan Histories

The Himalayas have been a zone of global interactions and exchanges over the centuries, quite unlike the stereotype of remoteness and isolation.
▶01-Jun-2021
Dinyar Patel