Dinyar Patel is Associate Professor of History at the S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai. He is the author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 2020), the recipient of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Book Prize. He has also co-edited two books: Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers with S. R. Mehrotra (Oxford University Press, 2016) and From Ghalib’s Dilli to Lutyens’ New Delhi: A Documentary Record with Mushirul Hasan (Oxford University Press, 2013). His research has been supported by the US Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Patel received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 2015.
Current Projects:
At present, he is working on a book project on the global dimensions of Indian liberalism in the nineteenth century.
Visit Dr. Patel’s website here and check out the podcast series he hosts on Indian and global history here.
Book Recommendation:
Ashok Gopal, A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar (Navayana, 2023)
Publications:
“From Profits and Patriotism to Gandhian Austerity: Transformations in Bombay’s Swadeshi Landscape,” in Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds., Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay 1930-1931, Ahmedabad: Mapin, 2025, pp. 100-21.
“What Donald Trump Has in Common with Colonial-era Indian Thinkers,” The India Forum, 16 May 2025.
“To Revive India’s Industries: The Global and Imperial Roots of Swadeshi in the Nineteenth Century,” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 58, no. 3, 2024, pp. 686-716.
“Making Swadeshi Managers: The Antecedents of Professional Management Education in India, 1860s-1950s,” Enterprise and Society, vol. 25, no. 2, 2024, pp. 454-85.
“Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians,” Iranian Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, 2023, pp. 231-53.
