Professor Faisal Devji
Professor of Indian History
St Antony's College
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Dr Devji is interested in Indian political thought as well as that of modern Islam. Devji’s broader concerns have to do with ethics and violence in a globalized world.
Research Interests
- Indian and Pakistani intellectual history
- Hindu and Muslim political thought
- Globalization and violence
I am interested in the role of ideas in history, and in particular the development of political thought in modern South Asia. I have pursued these interests in my work on Gandhi's theory and practice of non-violence and on the re-making of Muslim politics from the late 19th century into the middle of the 20th. But I am also involved in thinking about the fragmentation and attempted reconstitution of such themes in the post-Cold War period of globalization, with Islamic forms of militancy providing my preferred site of study.
