ABSTRACT
This essay constitutes a personal and affective tribute to Dipesh Chakrabarty. It elaborates the author’s own encounters and entanglements with Chakrabarty’s landmark book, Provincializing Europe, as well as the life of the book in terms of its reading and reception, debate and discussion, critique and contention across nearly two decades. The essay is concerned not only with the formal academic arenas and arguments and certified intellectual sites and scenes, but equally follows the career of Provincializing Europe into everyday nooks and quotidian corners. As a master’s student, a PhD supervisee, and a research assistant to Chakrabarty – and now his younger colleague – the author is especially well-equipped to take up such tasks. The chapter unravels thereby the many lives of Provincializing Europe.
