Vasant Kaiwar, Visiting Assistant Professor and Editor

Office Location:	311 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-5439
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• HISTORY 105.01, OLD WORLDS/NEW HISTORIES Synopsis

  Carr 240, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 134.01, ICS 107.01)

• HISTORY 157S.01, GTWY SEM: EMPIRES/HST PERSPECT Synopsis

  TBA, W 04:40 PM-07:10 PM

Office Hours:

Tuesday 3-4 p.m.
Thursday 6-7 p.m.
And by appointment

Education:

PhD	University of California, Los Angeles	1989
C Phil	University of California, Los Angeles	1982
MA	University of California, Los Angeles	1980
BA	University of Oxford, England	1978

Specialties:

Comparative Colonial Studies

Areas of Interest:

Modern South Asia
Marxist theory
Postcolonialism and postmodernism

Recent Publications

1. V. Kaiwar, Colonialism, difference and exoticism in the formation of the postcolonial metanarrative, in Pierre Guerlain and Thierry Madjid Labica (eds.), Perspectives transatlantiques sur les empires, Colloque organisé a l’université de Paris, X, Nanterre, Publications Paris X., Littératures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Sociétés du Monde Anglophone, Université de Caen. (2007), L'université de Caen  [abs]
2. V. Kaiwar, Philosophy and Politics in the Hind Swaraj of Mohandas Gandhi, SAMAJ (South Asian Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Paris). (Submitted, 2006)  [abs]
3. “Silences in Postcolonial Thought: The Case of Provincializing Europe,”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. Vol. XL no. No 34 (August, 2005), pp. 3732-3738
4. "Embracing Difference: Postcolonial Theory and the Metanarrative of Capital,”, Historical Materialism (Submitted, 2005)
5. with Sucheta Mazumdar, "The Coordinates of Orientalism", ContreTemps (Submitted, 2005)