I am Emeritus Professor of History at New York University and at the University of Pennsylvania. I joined the Penn faculty in 1981 and came to NYU in 2007. I chaired South Asia programs at Penn, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Senior Scholars program (CIES), and NYU. I served as President of the Association for Asian Studies and as Chair of the NYU Department of History. I founded the NYU Global Asia Program. My research and teaching focus broadly on South Asia, globalization, and capitalism.

I now focus on writing and on developing research material for global Asian studies: see the Global Asia Resource Portal and Oxford University Press Online Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, where I am Editor-in-Chief. 

Here is my NYU History Department homepage. Here is a short bio. My updated CV and links to published and unpublished work are under the the LIBRARY tab. My old Penn homepage is still live but most ot is links are dead: one useful thing is the Hindutva page (the Penn Hindutva archive is copied here.)