Vinay Lal
Background
Vinay Lal is a historian of India. He is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He writes widely on various topics. He is known for his radical political views and for making his history lectures available for free on his YouTube channel. He earned his BA and MA, both in 1982, from the Humanities centre at the Johns Hopkins University and wrote his master’s thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Indian philosophy. Lal then studied cinema in Australia and India on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship b
Vinay Lal
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Occupation
• Professor
• Author
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Education Qualification
• BA, the Humanities Centre, the Johns Hopkins University
• MA, the Humanities Centre, the Johns Hopkins University
• PhD, from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1992
About: - Vinay Lal is a historian of India. He is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He writes widely on various topics. He is known for his radical political views and for making his history lectures available for free on his YouTube channel. He earned his BA and MA, both in 1982, from the Humanities centre at the Johns Hopkins University and wrote his master’s thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Indian philosophy. Lal then studied cinema in Australia and India on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship before commencing his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a PhD with Distinction from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1992. He wrote some of their articles on the related topic of “Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Is a Secular King & Not A Hindu King”.