Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. He is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history and the 2019 West Bengal Government's Tagore Memorial Prize for his book, The Crises of Civilisation: Explorations in Global and Planetary Histories.