Rana Dasgupta is a British novelist and essayist.

His latest book, After Nations: The Making & Unmaking of a World Order (2026) presents a global history of the nation-state and a diagnosis of the large-scale transition engulfing the world today. Harvest (2025), a podcast co-written with Maryam Aslany, offers an intimate investigation of cotton agriculture in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and an explanation for the great numbers of farmer suicides that have occurred there.

Between 2014 and 2018, Rana was Distinguished Visiting Lecturer and Writer-in-Residence at Brown University; he has had visiting appointments also at Princeton University, University of the Arts in Helsinki and Wolfson College, Oxford.

He lives in France.