Faisal Devji

Professor of Indian History  

Affiliation: Faculty of History
Expert in: Transnationalism; Religion, Globalisation
Geographic focus: South Asia, Europe

I am interested in the intellectual history and political thought of modern South Asia as well as in the emergence of Islam as a global category. In my research I have focussed on the cultural and philosophical meanings of violence as much as the emergence of non-violence as a political project. I am also very interested in the different ways in which the idea of humanity achieves political realty, particularly as the simultaneous subject and object of globalisation. My recent work deals with efforts to think beyond the nation-state and the inheritance of anarchism in the postcolonial world.