Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. He is a historian of South Asia and has recently been working with oceanic histories and questions of epistemology from the Global South. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (2020) and the forthcoming Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (Routledge, 2022).

Professor Menon was recently awarded the 2021 Falling Walls Foundation Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities.

1. Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South Part I: Relation 2. Ubuntu/Guanxi 3. Tarbiyya Part II: Commensuration 4. Logic 5. And¿j 6. Izithunguthu Part III: The Political 7. Eddembe 8. Minzu 9. Kavi 10. Rajo güa Part IV: The Social 11. Asabiyya 12. Dadani 13. Marumakkath¿yam Part V: Words in Motion 14. Rantau 15. Mus¿fir 16. Feitiço /Umbanda Part VI: Rooted Words 17. Nongqayi/Nongqai 18. Naam Part VII: Indeterminacy 19. Pajub¿ 20. Ardhan¿riswara Part VIII: Insurrection 21. Awq¿t/Auk¿t