New York University
Department of History
Back to Previous Page

Andrew Sartori


University of Chicago, PhD, 2003

Email:  asartori@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: Modern South Asia, Modern Intellectual History, Social Theory

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition, co-edited with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in April 2007).

"Abul Mansur Ahmad and the Cultural Politics of Bengali Pakistanism," forthcoming in From the Colonial to the Postcolonial.

"Beyond Culture-COntact and Colonial Discourse: 'Germanism' in Colonial Bengal," Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 1 (forthcoming in April 2007).

"The British Empire and its Liberal Mission," Journal of Modern History, vol. 78, no. 3 (September 2006), 623-642.

"The Resonance of 'Culture': Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History," Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 4 (October 2005), 676-699.

"Emancipation as Heteronomy: The Crisis of Liberalism in Later Nineteenth-Century Bengal," Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2004), 56-86.

"The Categorical Logic of a Colonial Nationalism: Swadeshi Bengal, 1904-1908," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 23, nos. 1&2 (2003), 271-285.

"Robert Redfield's Comparative Civilizations Project and the Political Imagination of Postwar America," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 6, no. 1 (1998), 33-65. 

Back to Top