Aijaz Ahmad

Aijaz Ahmad is a leading Marxist thinker, critic and commentator. He currently holds the Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Chair at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Among his books are: Ghazals of Ghalib (Columbia University Press, 1971; Oxford University Press, 1994); In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (Verso, 1992; OUP, 1994) and Lineages of the Present: Political Essays (Tulika, 1996; Verso, 2000). His new book is Afghanistan, Iraq and the Imperialism of Our Time (LeftWord, 2004).