Vasant Kaiwar, Visiting Associate Professor

Office Location:	312 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 684-5439
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2018):

• HISTORY 105.01, OLD WORLDS/NEW HISTORIES Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 240, WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 134.01, MEDREN 105.01)

• HISTORY 105.01, OLD WORLDS/NEW HISTORIES Synopsis

  Carr 137, WF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 134.01, MEDREN 105.01)

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

  Carr 135, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as ICS 157S.01)

Office Hours:

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

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California at 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

Keywords:

Agriculture • Asia • Capital • Demography • Developing Countries • Economics • India • Land tenure • Population • Population Dynamics • Population Growth • Rural development • Social Planning • Socioeconomic Factors • Technology

Recent Publications

1. Kaiwar, V, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the colonies, volume IBorrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the colonies, volume I By BRENNANTIMOTHY (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2014), 280 pp. Paperback $24.95., Race and Class, vol. 57 no. 3 (January, 2016), pp. 115-118 [doi]
2. Kaiwar, V, The Postcolonial Orient The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe (May, 2014), pp. 436 pages, Brill, ISBN 9004270442  [abs]
3. Kaiwar, V, Philosophy and Politics in the Hind Swaraj of Mohandas Gandhi, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Fall, 2007), pp. 50-69  [abs]
4. Kaiwar, V, Famines of Structural Adjustment in Colonial India, in Nationalism and Imperialism in South and Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour of Damodar R. SarDesai, edited by Long, R; Kaminsky, A (2012), Manohar, New Delhi
5. Kaiwar, V, L’Orient postcolonial. Sur la "provincialisation de l’Europe" et la théorie postcoloniale. (Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2012). (2012)