David Lelyveld is a retired Professor of History at William Paterson University in the United States, is the author of Aligarh’s First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India (1978, reprinted 2003) and co- editor of A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective (2005).
David received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has held faculty and administrative positions at the University of Minnesota, Columbia and Cornell.