Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi and has been visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the University of London. He is the author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (Calcutta 1993; Manchester 1995), and has co-edited The Nation across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations (New Delhi 2007; New York 2008), Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (London 2000), Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (London 1999), and Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory, Text and Context (Shimla 1996; rpt. 2000, 2007). He has translated from Hindi Premchand: His Life and Times (Delhi 1982; rpt. 1991), and contributed a chapter on "Hindi and the Nation" to Literary Cultures in History, ed. Sheldon Pollock (Berkeley 2003; New Delhi 2004). Now and then, he also writes in Hindi.

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