Faisal Devji is Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford. A scholar of the intellectual history and political thought of modern South Asia, he is the author of Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea and The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence. He has written for TheFinancial Times, TheGuardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Indian Express, and The Times of India, and his work has been covered by the BBC World Service, ITV, CNN, CBC, ABC, NPR, German Public Radio, Austrian Radio, and the Voice of America. He has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago. He is currently a Fellow at New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge and Yves Otramane Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.