SOAS South Asia Institute
History Expertise
Name/Title | Area of Expertise |
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Eleanor Newbigin Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia |
History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India |
Mandy Sadan Reader in the History of South East Asia |
Ethnicity and conflict in mainland South East Asia, cultural production, non-national histories of Eastern Himalayas and South East Asian Massif and the South, South East and East Asian borderworlds of Burma |
Michael W. Charney Professor of Asian and Military History |
The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia |
Roy Fischel Lecturer in the History of South Asia |
History of precolonial South Asia, in particular Muslim polities and societies; the Deccan, 1300-1700; South Asia and the early modern Muslim world |
Shabnum Tejani Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia |
Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance |