DINYAR PHIROZE PATEL

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1 DINYAR PHIROZE PATEL DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA, SC (857) EMPLOYMENT University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Assistant Professor, Department of History (August 2015-present) Faculty Associate, Walker Institute of International and Area Studies EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Ph.D., Modern South Asian History (May 2015) Dissertation: The Grand Old Man: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Evolution of the Demand for Indian Self-Government. Dissertation committee: Dr. Sugata Bose, Dr. Maya Jasanoff, Dr. Sven Beckert. Additional reader: Dr. Ramachandra Guha. Stanford University, Stanford, California B.A., Honors with Distinction, International Relations; History minor (June 2004) Honors Thesis: Building Imperial Delhi: The Politics and Symbolism of a New Capital for India. Firestone Medal for best honors thesis. Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Valedictory speaker at Phi Beta Kappa graduation ceremony. Study abroad at Oxford University and Shanghai, China. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE Modern South Asia; empire and anti-imperialism; nationalism; international history; intellectual history; history of political and economic thought; British imperial history; modern Iran; urban history; architectural history; minorities in South Asia; Parsi history; Zoroastrianism and ancient Iran. EDITED VOLUMES Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers, co-edited with S.R. Mehrotra, Oxford University Press and National Archives of India, From Ghalib s Dilli to Lutyens New Delhi: A Documentary Record, co-edited with Mushirul Hasan, Oxford University Press and National Archives of India, PUBLISHED ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND REVIEWS 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 Review of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago Press), South Asia, vol. 39, no. 3, August 2016, pp Dadabhai Naoroji and the Evolution of the Demand for Swaraj, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series, History and Society, no. 25, Review of Mumbai: Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope by Mariam Dossal (Oxford University Press), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 22, no. 2, April 2012, pp

2 Dinyar Patel 2 The Importance of Ancient Iran, review of Sasanian Iran by Touraj Daryaee (I.B. Tauris), Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLV, no. 15, 10 April 2010, pp : The United States, Great Britain, and the Indian Nationalist Movement, Herodotus, vol. XIV, Spring 2004, pp FELLOWSHIPS Harvard Graduate Society Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, Harvard South Asia Initiative Graduate Student Associate Fellowship, , Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship (for research in India, United Kingdom, and Ireland), 2013 Institute of International Education (IIE) Fulbright Nehru Fellowship (for research in India), 2012 Critical Language Enhancement Award (CLEA) (for Gujarati language study in Mumbai), Fall 2011 Clive Fellowship, Department of History, Harvard University, 2010 Kheradi Family Scholarship, Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), 2010 John L. Loeb Fellowship, Harvard Divinity School, U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (for Gujarati language study in Ahmedabad), Summer 2009 Whipple V.N. Jones Graduate Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Stanford Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellowship, Stanford East Asian Studies Undergraduate Fellowship, 2002 CONFERENCE PAPERS British History after Brexit (invited plenary roundtable speaker), Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, 1 April The Indian Edison: Shankar Abaji Bhisey and the Confluence of Indian Talent and Nationalist Capital, conference on Towards New Histories of Mumbai, University of Mumbai, 7 January Controlling the Narrative: Parsis, European Scholarship on Zoroastrianism, and Religious and Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century, conference on The Sea and Knowledge, Darshak Itihas Nidhi, Bharuch, Gujarat, 10 December The Idea of Indian MPs: Parliament and Early Indian Nationalism, North American Conference on British Studies, Washington, D.C., forthcoming November Controlling History: Understanding Archival Dysfunction in India Today, Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 23 October The Making of an Indian Leader: Dadabhai Naoroji s Railway Tour of North and West India, , Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 25 October The School Master Abroad: Dadabhai Naoroji and Colonial Bombay s Educative Tradition, Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, 11 April No Cause Better Calculated to Secure India s National Regeneration: Bombay Political Reformers and the Princely States of Gujarat and Kathiawar, , Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, 29 March Subject Lessons: Indian Nationalists and Indian Students in Late Victorian Britain Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Las Vegas, 8 March 2015.

3 Dinyar Patel 3 The Chief Subject of the Fight: Dadabhai Naoroji s Drain Theory and its Political Corollary, Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 17 October The Schoolmaster Abroad: Liberalism and Education in Mid-Nineteenth Century Bombay, South Asia Early Career Workshop, Princeton University, 11 April Our Own Religion in Ancient Persia: Dadabhai Naoroji and European Orientalist Scholarship in the Late Nineteenth Century, conference on After the Persianate, University of Oklahoma, 8 March Dadabhai Naoroji and the Transnational Dimensions of Social Reform in Western India, Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, 23 March The Banaji and Mehta Families: Forging the Parsi Community in Calcutta, Conference of the Meherjirana Library, Navsari, Gujarat, 14 January Parsis, Iran and Iranian Nationalism: The Iran League of Bombay, Conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies, Istanbul, 2 August Gandhi and the Parsis: London, South Africa, and Non-Cooperation, Conference of the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge University, 7 June New Delhi: Battles Over Site and Style, , Conference of the International Planning History Society, IIT Delhi, 10 December SEMINAR PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES The Life and Times of Dadabhai Naoroji, Asia Society India Chapter, Mumbai, 13 January Working at the National Archives of India, lecture to staff of the India Office Records, British Library, London, 27 June Indians in late Victorian Britain: Perspectives from the Naoroji Papers, Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge University, 24 May Being Parsi in London a Hundred Years Ago, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe, London, 18 November Dadabhai Naoroji and the Evolution of the Demand for Swaraj, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 20 July New Delhi at 100: Political Reform, Indian Nationalism, and Changing Perspectives on a New Capital for India ( ), India International Centre, New Delhi, 20 December R.D. Mehta in Early Calcutta History, Calcutta Zoroastrian Anjuman, Kolkata, 20 November Understanding Parsi Population Decline in India: A Historical Perspective, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre, Mumbai, 7 May Dadabhai Naoroji s European and Asiatic Races : Scholarship and Political Advocacy in Victorian-era Britain, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre, Mumbai, 11 August Heritage and Diaspora: Zoroastrian Diaspora Settlements in Transition in the 19 th -21 st Centuries, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe, London, 11 April M.K. Gandhi s Relations with the Parsi Community, K.R. Cama Institute, Mumbai, 28 May 2009, and Gujarat Vidyapeeth University, Ahmedabad, 10 August Gandhi and Minority Rights: The Prince of Wales Riots, Mani Bhavan Gandhi Museum, Mumbai, 8 August Politics of the Construction of British-built New Delhi, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, 18 March 2008.

4 Dinyar Patel 4 CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Celebrating a Treasure: 140 Years at the First Dastoor Meherjirana Library, Navsari, Gujarat, January Co-organizer for the first major academic conference in Navsari, focusing on Parsi and Zoroastrian studies. Speakers included Amitav Ghosh and historians, philologists, and archaeologists from India, Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and Japan. JOURNALISM Navrozji Fardunji, 19 th -century Reformer and the Great Son whom India Forgot too Soon, Scroll.in, 10 March With Parinaz Madan, How Food Inspires Names of India s Parsis, BBC News, 25 December Viewpoint: How the British Let One Million Indians Die in Famine, BBC News, 11 June Indian Restaurants: The Unlikely Symbol of the Changing Balkans, Scroll.in, 6 June Does India Need a New Parliament Building? History May Have Some Constructive Criticism, Scroll.in, 4 January Global Goodwill: Growing Intolerance within India Threatens to Change How it is Regarded Abroad, Scroll.in, 25 October Why We Should All Care About the Bombay Parsi Punchayet Elections, Scroll.in, 14 October Renaming Aurangzeb Road is a Terrible Memorial to APJ Kalam, Scroll.in, 1 September Live Wire in the Nationalist Movement, Hindu, 15 July Shelving History: The Indian Archives, Himal, January A Small-Town Wonder: The Meherjirana Library of Navsari, Gujarat, Hindu, 9 February The Grand Old Man and His Miscellanea, Hindu, 22 October India and the Last Jubilee Queen, Hindu, 16 June Our Past is Being Moth Eaten, Hindu, 19 March Four-part series on Indian archives and libraries for the New York Times India Ink: In India, History Literally Rots Away, 20 March Repairing the Damage at India s National Archives, 21 March India s Archives: How did Things get this Bad?, 22 March The Parsis, Once India s Curators, Now Shrug as History Rots, 23 March New Delhi s Controversial Birth, New York Times India Ink, 12 December American Involvement in the Cripps Mission to India, SPAN, March/April 2005 (also translated for publication in Hindi and Urdu editions). TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Historian s Craft, Upper Division Seminar, Fall 2016 Coloring the World Red: The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Upper Division Lecture Course, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 Introduction to South Asian History, University of South Carolina Honors College, Fall 2015;

5 Dinyar Patel 5 Introductory Lecture Course, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement in India, Upper Division Seminar, Fall 2015; University of South Carolina Honors College, Spring 2016, Fall 2017 Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2010 and 2014) Teaching Fellow, History of American Capitalism, Professor Sven Beckert, Spring 2014 Teaching Fellow, The World Wars in Global Context, , Harvard Core Curriculum, Professor Charles S. Maier, Fall 2010 Teaching Fellow, Encounters: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World, Professor David A. Smith, Spring 2010 Teaching Fellow, Christianity and Chinese Society, Professor Henrietta Harrison, Spring 2010 ACADEMIC SERVICE Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press: reviewer (2016-present). Department of History, University of South Carolina: committee member for the History Center (2015- present) and Undergraduate Committee (2016-present). National Archives of India, New Delhi, India (2011-present): Authored proposals for preservation and digitization of the Dadabhai Naoroji Papers. Creating a comprehensive new catalogue for the Dadabhai Naoroji Papers. UNESCO Parsi Zoroastrian Project (Parzor), New Delhi, India (2006-present): Involved in heritage preservation projects, including restoration work at the Meherjirana Library, Navsari, Gujarat. Drafted and submitted funding application on behalf of the Meherjirana Library to the National Culture Fund, Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2013). Department of History, Harvard University: reviewer for undergraduate theses (2010). South Asia Across Disciplines Workshop, Harvard University: Coordinator for interdisciplinary research workshop ( ). ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE BBC News, London (2016-present): Freelance contributor for online news portal. Scroll.in, Mumbai (2015-present): Freelance contributor for major Indian online news portal. Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA): Chair, Research and Preservation Committee (2017-present). Consulting Editor and contributing author for quarterly FEZANA Journal (2007-present). Coordinator for FEZANA Oral History Project (2007). New York Times India Ink, New York and New Delhi ( ): Freelance contributor. Dudley Graduate Student House, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Harvard University: Intellectual and Cultural Fellow. Coordinated academic events for members of the GSAS community ( ). Research Assistant to Peter Stansky, Department of History, Stanford University ( ): assisted

6 Dinyar Patel 6 with London Blitz book project published as The First Day of the Blitz (Yale University Press, 2007). Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, Stanford University: Editor-in-Chief ( ). LANGUAGES Hindi/Urdu: advanced proficiency in reading, speaking, and writing. Gujarati (Standard and Parsi): advanced intermediate proficiency in reading, speaking, and writing. Mandarin Chinese: beginning intermediate proficiency in reading, speaking, and writing.