Sunil Khilnani

Sunil Khilnani is the author of the acclaimed and influential The Idea of India. He currently serves as the Avantha Professor and director of the India Institute at King's College London. He was formerly professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been a visiting professor of politics at Seikei University, Tokyo, and was elected a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He has also held a Leverhulme Fellowship, and has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C., a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.