Dr. Venkat Dhulipala is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (Cambridge University Press, 2015). It was cited as the Best Book in Global Non-fiction for 2015 by Newsweek besides being widely reviewed and debated in various newspapers and magazines in India, Pakistan and the U.S. He is currently completing his second book titled Between Yan’an, Pakistan, and Hindustan: Communism, Islamism and Indian Nationalism in Hyderabad. Dr Dhulipala was awarded the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2022-23 for this book project. His essays have appeared in premier journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Etudes Asiatiques, and Islamic Studies. Dr. Dhulipala has an M.A (Political Science) from the University of Hyderabad, an M.A (South Asian Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D (History) from the University of Minnesota.