Gyanendra Pandey (born 1949) is a historian and a founding member of the Subaltern Studies project.

Early life and career

Pandey did his schooling in Sherwood College, Nainital, and completed his B.A. (Hons.) in history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, ranking first in the first class. He completed his D.Phil. in South Asian history under the supervision of Tapan Raychaudhuri as a

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. He was a research fellow at

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, and later at

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, from 1974 to 1978. He was a lecturer in history at the

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and then at the University of Hyderabad, which were followed by a fellowship at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in

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. In 1985 he became a professor at the

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, moving to a similar position at the

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from 1986 to 1998. He was a professor of anthropology and history and chair of the Department of Anthropology at

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. Presently, he is a professor of history at

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Academic

Pandey has written widely on the subjects of South Asian and African-American history, on colonial and post-colonial themes, and on matters relating to subaltern studies. He recently started a course at Emory University, US, combining Dalit history with that of African Americans. He is known for his proposition that "all racism is upper caste racism." He states. :"Upper caste, because ruling and dominant groups and classes across the globe believe it is their inherited right to rule and to live in special comfort and prosperity. Racism, because that is a way of keeping subordinated and marginalized groups – sometimes called minorities – "in their place;" and because the assumption of the right to rule, property and 'culture' leads to the segregation and subordination of those without privileged access to these, and to their denigration, castigation and even expulsion at times when they are seen as challenging the existing order of caste and race, Black and White."

Select publications

Books * . Reissued in 2006, ; and in 2012, . * Pandey, Gyanendra (2001). Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052180759X. Articles * * Pandey, Gyanendra, 'In Defence of the Fragment: Writing About Hindu-Muslim Riots in India', ''Economic & Political Weekly'', Annual Number, march 1991, repr. in ''The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect'', from the series India Since the 90s. * Pandey, Gyanendra (1999). "Can a Muslim Be an Indian?" ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'', vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 608–629. * "Rallying Around the Cow" (published in Subaltern Studies, Volume II)

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