Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Emory University. A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, he has written extensively on colonial and postcolonial South Asia, nationalism and minorities, civil rights and democracy, and the history of history-writing. Among his single-authored books are A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the USA; Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community, and Nation in Northern India, 1920–1940; and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. He is currently working on a comparative study of the practice of democracy, past and present; and on a history of 20th-century India as seen from the location of family and home.