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Since 2009, Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University. He also is a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge (New York University) and Yves Oltramar Chair at the
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Devji's multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He has taught at
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with its decentralized structure and emphasis on moral rather than political action. His next book was
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in 1964 to a family of western Indian origin. His undergraduate education was at the
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The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics
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The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence
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organizations concerned with the establishing of states and
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Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity
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Muslim Nationalism: Founding Identity in Colonial India
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