Sunil Khilnani is Avantha Professor and Director of the India Institute at King’s College, London. Among his publications are Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives and The Idea of India. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University.
Jasanoff is one of the smartest and coolest-headed of a new generation of historians of empire: sensitive to complexities, skeptical of brute and overly ideological assessments, and given to exploring what empire enabled as much as what it pulverized.