Daud Ali Explained

Daud Ali
Birth Place:	Kolkata, India
Nationality:	American
Workplaces:	School of Oriental and African Studies University of Pennsylvania

Daud Ali is an American historian of Indian descent, born in Calcutta, India. He is currently Associate Professor of South Asian history at the University of Pennsylvania and the editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.^[1]

Ali obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and Religious studies at the College of William & Mary and then a Master of Arts degree in the history of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School.^[2] At Chicago he was a student of Ronald Inden. After his receiving his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Chicago, he taught history for fourteen years at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.^[3] Since 2009, he has been at the University of Pennsylvania.Ali's interests range widely over the history South Asia as a whole, covering themes such as courtly protocol, gardens, gastronomy, war and violence. His analysis of feudalism and the historiography of the medieval, in particular his critique of B. D. Chattopadhyaya, have been particularly influential.^[4]

Selected Publications

• Book: Daud Ali . Invoking the Past: the Uses of History in South Asia. Oxford University Press. 1999. Delhi.
• Book: Daud Ali, Ronald Inden and Jonathan Walters. Querying the Medieval: The History of Practice in South Asia. Oxford University Press. 2000. New York.
• Book: Daud Ali. Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
• Book: Daud Ali and Anand Pandian. Ethical Life in South Asia. Indiana University Press. 2010.
• Book: Daud Ali and Indra Sengupta. Knowledge Production, Pedagogy and Institutions in Colonial India. Palgrave. 2011. New York.
• Book: Daud Ali and Emma Flatt. Garden and Landscape Practices in Precolonial India: Histories from the Deccan. Routledge. 2011. London.

External links

• Royal Asiatic Society https://royalasiaticsociety.org
• ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8566-8890

Notes and References

1. University of Pennsylvania, South Asian Studies: https://www.southasia.upenn.edu/people/daud-ali; Web site: Introducing the new JRAS editor Professor Daud Ali. Daud Ali. Royal Asiatic Society. 2022. 25 May 2023. .
2. Web site: Daud Ali Biography and Tours. Far Horizons Archaeological & Cultural Trips, Inc.. August 25, 2015. 7 March 2018. 16 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190516202937/https://www.farhorizons.com/our-tour-scholars-leaders/daud-ali-biography-and-tours/. dead.
3. News: Tarlow, Naomi. Learning with a professor who spans the ages. The Daily Pennsylvanian. 19 January 2010. 16 May 2019.
4. Daud Ali, "The Idea of the Medieval in the Writing of Indian History: Contexts, Methods, Politics," Social History 39, no. 3 (2014): 382-407; see Kennet, Derek, Hawkes, Jason and Willis, Michael. "Chapter 15 Paithan Excavation: Historical, Archaeological, Geographical and Epigraphical Contexts," Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra: Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India, (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), p. 325. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110653540-015.