Manu Goswami

Associate Professor of History

Education

University of Chicago, PhD 1998

Areas of Research/Interest

19th & 20th century Indian history, History of Economic Thought, Political Economy, Social Theory, Historiography

Books

Publications

  • A Communism of Intelligence
    Special issue on Anachronisms, Co-edited by Sonia Werner and Erag Ramirez, Diacritics
    (Spring 2021), pp. 90-109
  • Benedict Anderson
    Special issue “Undead Texts: Grand Narratives and the History of the Human Sciences” ed
    (2020), pp. 441-448
  • The Political Economy of the Nation Form
    Special issue, “Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age” ed. Gillian Hart, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
    (2020), pp. 267-272
  • Crisis Economics: Keynes and the End of Empire
    Special issue “Postcolonialism and Critical Theory”, Constellations 25, 1
    (2018), pp. 18-34
  • Decolonizing Knowledge: Roundtable on New Directions in the History of Knowledge and Postcolonial Theory
    Trajectories: Newsletter of Comparative and Historical Sociology, Manu Goswami, George Steinmetz and Andrew Zimmerman
    (Winter 2018), pp. 44-48
  • AHR Conversation: History after the End of History: Reconceptualizing Twentieth Century History after the End of History
    The American Historical Review 121, no. 5, Manu Goswami, Gabrielle Hecht, Adeeb Khalid, Anna Krylova, Elizabeth F. Thompson, Jonathan R. Zatlin, and Andrew Zimmerman
    (2016), pp. 1567-1607
  • Swadeshi
    Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies, eds., Gita Dharampal-Frick, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer, Jahnavi Phalkey
    New York University Press, (2015)
  • Provincializing Sociology
    The case of a premature postcolonial sociologist Political Power and Social Theory, 24
    (2013), pp. 145-175
  • Imaginary Futures and Colonial Internationalisms
    American Historical Review, Forum on Historical Futures, Volume 117, 5
    (2012), pp. 1461-1485
  • Remembering the Future
    American Historical Review, Volume 113, 2, AHR forum on Geoff Eley's A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society. Spanish Translation, “Recordanda El Futuro” Historia Social, 69
    (2011), pp. 119-127 (2012), pp. 417-24
  • Autonomy and Comparability: Notes on the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
    Boundary 2, 32
    (2005)
  • Rethinking the Modular Nation Form: Toward a Sociohistorical Conception of Nationalism
    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44, 4
    (2002)
  • From Swadeshi to Swaraj: Nation, Economy, and Territory in colonial South Asia
    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40, 4
    (1998)
  • Englishness on the Imperial Circuit: Mutiny tours in Colonial South Asia
    Journal of Historical Sociology, 9, 1
    (1996)