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{{Infobox academic
| name = Dipesh Chakrabarty
| native_name = দীপেশ চক্রবর্তী
| image = Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2012 (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]]
| awards = Toynbee Prize
| alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]]<br>[[Indian Institute of Management Calcutta]]<br> [[Australian National University]]
| main_interests = [[Subaltern Studies]], [[Postcolonialism]]
}}

'''Dipesh Chakrabarty''' (born 1948, in [[Kolkata]], India) is an Indian historian and leading scholar of [[postcolonial theory]] and [[subaltern studies]]. He is the [[Lawrence A. Kimpton]] Distinguished Service Professor in history at the [[University of Chicago]], and is the recipient of the 2014 [[Toynbee Prize Foundation#Toynbee Prize Foundation|Toynbee Prize]], named after Professor [[Arnold J. Toynbee]], that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dipesh Chakrabarty Named 2014 Toynbee Prize Recipient|url=https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/dipesh-chakrabarty-named-2014-toynbee-prize-recipient/|access-date=2021-09-09|website=Toynbee Prize Foundation|language=en}}</ref> He is the author of the seminal ''Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference'' (2000) and of the essay "The Climate of History: Four Theses."