History Expertise

Name/Title	Area of Expertise
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