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Daud Ali

b. 1964

American historian

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Born 1964. Daud Ali is an Indian historian.

Daud Ali (born 3 March 1964) 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. He is a scholar focusing on Pre-Mughal South Asia.

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. 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. 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.

Scholarly works Cover of Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India, edited by Daud Ali and Emma Flatt and publish by Routledge in 2011.

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1964, Kolkata
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Education
College of William & Mary, University of Chicago Divinity School, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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SOAS, University of London, University of Pennsylvania

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American historian

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Daud Ali was born in 1964 in Kolkata.

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· Wikidata: Q16150063

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