On 3 Januar, 2015, American Historical Association (AHA) honoured a
Bengalee in New York with prestigious "Toynbee Prize" for the year
2014. He is Dipesh Chakrabarty. Named after Arnold J. Toynbee, the
Toynbee Prize Foundation was chartered in 1987 "to contribute to the
development of the social sciences, as defined from a broad historical
view of human society and of human and social problems." Currently, it
is awarded every other year for work that makes a significant
contribution to the study of global history.
Dipesh Chakrabarty was chosen by unanimous consensus by the
Selection Committee of Toynbee Prize in last July acknowledging the
importance and influence of his work.
Dipesh Chakrabarty has taught at Chicago since 1995 and is a
scholar of South-Asian history, postcolonial studies and global
history. Best known for his 2000 volume 'Provincializing Europe', he
has made major contributionsto the historical fields at the core of...
