Dr. Vinay Lal
Professor of History, UCLA.
e-mail: vlal@history.ucla.edu
Some recent publications
- Lal, V., ed. (2013).
The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: Making and Unmaking the City: Culture, Politics, and Life Forms. Oxford University Press.
- Lal, V., ed. (2013).
The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: The City in Its Plenitude. Oxford University Press.
- Lal, V. (2011).
Deewaar: The Footpath, the City, and the Angry Young Man. HarperCollins.
Texts to download
- Lal, V. (2012).
“The Politics of Culture and Knowledge after Postcolonialism: Nine Theses (and a Prologue)”. Continuum: Journal of Media & Culture Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 191-205.
- Lal, V. (2011).
“World History and Its Politics”. Economic & Political Weekly, vol. XLVI, pp. 40-47.
- Lal, V. (2005).
“Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History”. Radical History Review, vol. 91, pp. 124–30.
- Lal, V. (2003).
“Provincializing the West: World History from the Perspective of Indian History”, in Stuchtey, B. & Fuchs, E., eds. Writing World History: 1800-2000. Oxford University Press, pp. 271-289.
- Lal, V. (2003).
“North American Hindus, the Sense of History, and the Politics of Internet Diasporism”, in Lee, R. C. & Cynthia Wong, S.-L., eds. Asian-American.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace. Routledge, pp. 98-138.
- Lal, V. (2001).
“Walking with the Subalterns, Riding with the Academy: The Curious Ascendancy of Indian History”. Studies in History (New Series), vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 101-133.
- Lal, V. (2001).
“Subaltern Studies and Its Critics: Debates over Indian History”. History and Theory, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 135-148.