Sunil Khilnani
Starr Foundation Professor; Director of the South Asia Studies Program

Expertise by Geographic Area:
India; South Asia

Background and Education:
Former professor of politics at Birkbeck College at the University of London and visiting professor of politics at Seikei University in Tokyo; elected a fellow of Christ’s College at University of Cambridge; has held a Leverhulme Fellowship and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin member; member of the editorial boards of Critique Internationale and Political Quarterly; recipient of the 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Indian government; Ph.D., social and political sciences, University of Cambridge

Languages:
French; Hindi

Publications:
The Idea of India (2003, third edition); Civil Society: History and Possibilities, co-editor (2001); Reinventing Democracy, co-editor (1996); Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France (1993); numerous articles, essays and reviews