Cambridge and India
History & Culture
Led by Professor John Gallagher, Dr Anil Seal and Professor Eric Stokes, Cambridge became a centre for the study of modern Indian history. Their work was taken forward by Dr Rajnarayan Chandravakar and Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, attracting students from across the world. The Centre of South Asian Studies, located in the heart of Cambridge, is a resource that serves scholars in Cambridge and beyond.
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) hosts speakers and fellows from India. They have included Amit Chaudhuri (Leverhulme Fellowship at Cambridge), Professor Leela Gandhi, Professor Rukmini Byaha Nair, Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri and Professor Supriya Chaudhuri.
Prof Sir Christopher Bayly
Faculty of History
Professor Bayly is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the Faculty of History and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies. His research and teaching interests include Indian history since c.1700, British imperial history and global history.
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Dr Joya Chatterji
Faculty of History
Dr Chatterji is a Lecturer in the Faculty of History and specialises in Modern South Asian history.
India links: principal investigator in a major research project into the experience of displaced communities in India and the UK that will help to inform government policy.
Dr Priyamvada Gopal
Faculty of English
Dr Gopal is a lecturer in the Faculty of English. Her research interests include colonial and post-colonial literatures in English, modern Indian writing in English and translation and comparative Asian literatures.
India links: teaching and research on writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, GV Desani, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nayantara Sahgal, Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh.
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Dr Gordon Johnson
Wolfson College
Gordon Johnson is an historian and his main research interests are the history of India since the late eighteenth century and the recent history of the University of Cambridge.
India links: he is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of India, of which twenty-three volumes have been published so far, and he edits Modern Asian Studies, a quarterly journal, published by Cambridge University Press. His publications include the Cultural Atlas of India and University Politics: F.M.Cornford's Cambridge and his advice to the young academic politician.
[Visit to India, December 2009]
Dr Eivind Kahrs
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Dr Kahrs is a Reader in Sanskrit and a Fellow of Queen's College. He teaches Sanskrit and Indian religion and philosophy and his research interests lie within the field of Indian intellectual history, particularly Sanskrit linguistics and philosophy of language.
India links: collaboration with Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune and the University of Pune.
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Professor Julius Lipner
Faculty of Divinity
Professor Lipner is Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, and Fellow of Clare Hall. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
India links: his research interests include classical Vedantic thought, the interaction between India and Britain with special reference to 19th century Bengal, and interreligious understanding in the context of Hinduism and Christianity.
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Dr Vincenzo Vergiani
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Dr Vergiani is a lecturer in Sanskrit in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His research interests include the Sanskrit grammatical tradition and philosophy of language, the history of linguistic ideas in ancient and mediaeval South Asia in Sanskrit and Tamil, and the normative literature of Dharmashastra.
India links: collaborates with the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune and the French School of Asian Studies in Pondicherry.
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[News story: International workshop on Sanskrit and Tamil in Mediaeval India]
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