Shahid Amin is a retired Professor of History at the University of Delhi. Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 (1995), Writing Alternative Histories: A View from India(2002) and Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan (2005) are some of his seminar works. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford, Chicago, Columbia and Princeton Universities. He had received his D.Phil. from Oxford University.