DINYAR PHIROZE PATEL

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1 DINYAR PHIROZE PATEL DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY n UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA n COLUMBIA, SC dinyar.patel@gmail.com n 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. Core Faculty, Global Studies Program. 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. Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2010 and 2014). 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. BOOK PROJECT Shaking the Empire: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Birth of Indian Nationalism. Manuscript in preparation. 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, JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS The Pioneer Indian Inventor : Shankar Abaji Bhisey, Early Nationalists, and the Promotion of Indian Scientific Talent, in Prashant Kidambi, Rachel Dwyer, and Manjiri Kamat, eds., Bombay/Mumbai: Power, Place and Identity, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018 (peer reviewed). Beyond Hindu-Muslim Unity: Gandhi, the Parsis, and the Prince of Wales Riots of 1921, Indian Economic and Social History Review, forthcoming June 2018 (peer reviewed). Our Own Religion in Ancient Persia: Dadabhai Naoroji and Orientalist Scholarship on Zoroastrianism, Global Intellectual History, vol. 2, no. 3, 2017, pp (peer reviewed). The Banaji and Mehta Families: Forging the Parsi Community in Calcutta, in Almut Hintze and Alan

2 Dinyar Patel 2 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 Dadabhai Naoroji and the Evolution of the Demand for Swaraj, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series, History and Society, no. 25, : The United States, Great Britain, and the Indian Nationalist Movement, Herodotus, vol. XIV, Spring 2004, pp BOOK REVIEWS Review of The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India by Jon Wilson (PublicAffairs), South Asia, vol. 41, no. 1, March 2018, 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 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 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 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS University of South Carolina Provost s Grant, ($12,000) 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 ($49,173) Institute of International Education (IIE) Fulbright Nehru Fellowship (for research in India), 2012 ($12,000) 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 Reading the Economy: Harnessing Vernacular Diaries, Travelogues, and Other Literary Works as Sources of Indian Economic History (roundtable participant), Association for Asian Studies Conference in Asia, Ashoka University, New Delhi, forthcoming July The Singing Satyagrahi: Khorshedben Naoroji in Gandhi s Promotion of Nonviolence, conference on Conversations with Ramachandra Guha: Engaging a Life of Scholarship, India International Centre, New Delhi, 6 April 2018.

3 Dinyar Patel 3 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., 11 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 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 Pioneering Female Education in the Parsi Community, Zoroastrian Association of Houston, 21 April How We Got Here: Zoroastrian Diasporas Throughout History, Zoroastrian Society of Ontario, Toronto, 30 September Building Bombay: Business Families and the City, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 9 August

4 Dinyar Patel Dadabhai Naoroji: Evaluating his Legacy a Hundred Years after his Death, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Prince of Wales Museum) and Museum Society of Mumbai, Mumbai, 29 June 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 CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Cities at the Crossroads, Ninth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, forthcoming October Member, Program Committee. 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 India Must Recall Legacy of Early Nationalists like Dadabhai Naoroji in the Age of Hyper-Nationalism, Scroll.in, 30 June Navrozji Fardunji, 19 th -century Reformer and the Great Son whom India Forgot too Soon, Scroll.in, 10 March 2017.

5 Dinyar Patel 5 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 Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina HIST103 (Honors College): Introduction to South Asian History (Fall 2015, Spring 2018) HIST103: Introduction to South Asian History (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017) HIST300: The Historian s Craft (Fall 2016) HIST321: The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century (Spring 2016, Spring 2017) HIST367 (Honors College): Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement in India (Spring 2016) HIST367: Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement in India (Fall 2015, Fall 2017) HIST815: Dissertation Prospectus Seminar (Spring 2018) Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts HIST86A: Christianity and Chinese Society (teaching fellow for Dr. Henrietta Harrison, Spring 2010) HIST1118: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World (teaching fellow for Dr. David A. Smith, Spring 2010) HIST1457: History of American Capitalism (teaching fellow for Dr. Sven Beckert, Spring 2014) SW42: The World Wars in Global Context, (teaching fellow for Dr. Charles S. Maier, Fall 2010) ACADEMIC SERVICE Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press: article referee (2016-present). Department of History, University of South Carolina:

6 Dinyar Patel 6 Committee member for the History Center (2015-present), Undergraduate Committee ( ), and Executive Committee (2017-present). Member, Faculty Senate (2018-present). Selection Committee, Atkinson/Wyatt Dissertation Fellowship (2018). National Archives of India, New Delhi, India (2011-present): Co-editor for planned future volumes of the Dadabhai Naoroji Papers and Allan Octavian Hume Papers (to be jointly published by National Archives of India and Oxford University Press). 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). Committee Member, Scholarship Committee (2016-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 ( ). Research Assistant to Dr. Peter Stansky, Department of History, Stanford University ( ): assisted with 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.