Manu Bhagavan is a historian and the author or (co-) editor of 5 books, most recently The Peacemakers: India and The Quest for One World (HarperCollins India, 2012). He teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, where he is an Associate Professor. Manu has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and President of the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia. He lives in New York City.