Dinyar Patel

Dinyar Patel is an associate professor of history at S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai and an associate at the Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, which won the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize.

What Donald Trump has in Common with Colonial-Era Indian Thinkers

Indian and American trysts with protectionism serve as bookends for long-running critiques of globalisation, from the perspective of both poverty and plenty, respectively.

▶16-May-2025

Dinyar Patel

Book Review

A People Made for Democracy

Anticolonial leaders saw self-rule as intrinsically linked to projects of political education and economic advancement. A new study that charts these links between development and democracy resonates…

▶27-May-2024

Dinyar Patel

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