Daud Ali

Daud Ali (born 1964) is an American historian.

Daud Ali was born in Calcutta, India and moved to Baltimore, United States when he was two years old. His Bengali father and his own interest in Indian philosophy led him to study South Asian history in college. He went on to study Sanskrit and Tamil and Indian philosophy. He was a student of Ron Inden at the University of Chicago. He taught the history of ancient India for 15 years at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Daud Ali (ed.) (1999). Invoking the Past: the Uses of History in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 
• Daud Ali, Ronald Inden and Jonathan Walters (2000). Querying the Medieval: The History of Practice in South Asia. New York: Oxford University Press. 
• Daud Ali (2004). Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. Cambridge University Press. 
• Daud Ali and Anand Pandian (eds.) (2010). Ethical Life in South Asia. Indiana University Press. 
• Daud Ali and Indra Sengupta (eds.) (2011). Knowledge Production, Pedagogy and Institutions in Colonial India. New York: Palgrave. 
• Daud Ali and Emma Flatt (eds.) (2011). Garden and Landscape Practices in Precolonial India: Histories from the Deccan. London: Routledge. 

He led an annual tour to southern India for Far Horizons Archaeological and Cultural Trips. He also freelances for several other organizations.