Dr Eleanor Newbigin
BA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Overview
Department of History
Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Centre for Gender Studies
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
- Name:
- Dr Eleanor Newbigin
- Email address:
- en2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4625
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4699
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 307
- Office Hours:
- Wed 12:00-13:30 / Thurs 11:30-12:30
Biography
I am interested in ideas and practices of citizenship in India, especially during the subcontinent’s transition to independence, including its partition. My current research focuses on family law and social reform in the first half of the twentieth century and explores the way in which religious identity and gender relations informed debates about citizenship rights, democracy and secularism.
