Dinyar Patel (PhD)

Assistant Professor of History

S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

Forschung und Projekte

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Artikel

“Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians,” Iranian Studies, forthcoming 2023.

“‘One-Man Lobby’? Propaganda, Nationalism in the Diaspora, and the India League of America During the Second World War,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 49, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1110-1140.

“Caught between Two Nationalisms: The Iran League of Bombay and the Political Anxieties of an Indian Minority,” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, 2021, pp. 764-800.

“‘Pa Rishi’: Gandhi’s Constructive Critiques of Parsi Culture and Society,” in Venu Madhav Govindu and Srinath Raghavan, eds., The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Delhi: Aleph, 2021, pp. 57-67.

“The Singing Satyagrahi: Khurshedben Naoroji and the Challenge of Indian Biography,” in Srinath Raghavan and Nandini Sundar, eds., A Functioning Anarchy? Essays in Honour of Ramachandra Guha, Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, pp. 105-25.

“The Transnational Career of the ‘Indian Edison’: Shankar Abaji Bhisey and the Nationalist Promotion of Scientific Talent,” in Prashant Kidambi, Rachel Dwyer, and Manjiri Kamat, eds., Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos, London: Hurst, 2019; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019; and Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2019; pp. 239-62.

“Beyond Hindu-Muslim Unity: Gandhi, the Parsis, and the Prince of Wales Riots of 1921,” Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 221-47.

“Our Own Religion in Ancient Persia: Dadabhai Naoroji and Orientalist Scholarship on Zoroastrianism,” Global Intellectual History, vol. 2, no. 3, 2017, pp. 311-28.

“The Banaji and Mehta Families: Forging the Parsi Community in Calcutta,” in Almut Hintze and Alan Williams, eds., Holy Wealth: Accounting for this World and the Next in Religious Belief and Practice (Festschrift for John R. Hinnells), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016, pp. 211-30.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers, co-edited with S.R. Mehrotra, Delhi: Oxford University Press and National Archives of India, 2016.

From Ghalib’s Dilli to Lutyens’ New Delhi: A Documentary Record, co-edited with Mushirul Hasan, Delhi: Oxford University Press and National Archives of India, 2013.

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

South Asian history, Indian nationalism, modern India, British Empire, Western India, Bombay/Mumbai, political history, economic history, intellectual history, biography