Dr Anwesha Roy (she/her)
M.A., M.Phil., PhD. FRHistS
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Lecturer in Modern History
+44 114 222 2589
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- Profile
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I am a historian of 20th century colonial South Asia. I completed my PhD. in Modern Indian History in 2016 from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), in New Delhi, India, before moving to Kings College London to pursue a European Commission funded Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship from 2016-19.
I joined the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of 91Ö±²¥ as Lecturer in Modern History in 2024, from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Oxford, where I taught Modern South Asian Studies for three years. Prior to that, I have taught at Kings College London, SOAS and LSE.
I research, teach and supervise on histories and politics of gender, communal violence and histories of the Partition of 1947, social and emotional histories of the World Wars in colonial India. I am passionate about the politics of decolonisation and dedicatedly work towards decolonising the discipline of history.
- Research interests
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- Social histories of the World Wars in South Asia
- Politics of mass mobilisation in colonial India
- Histories of emotions
- Gender and society in colonial and post colonial South Asia
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
- . South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 44(1), 16-32.
- Anatomy of a Riot: The Great Calcutta Killing, August 1946. Bengal Past and Present (Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society), 128(2009).
Chapters
- Calcutta and its Struggle for Peace: Anti-Communal Resistance, 1946-47 In Sarkar T & Bandyopadhyay S (Ed.), Calcutta The Stormy Decades Taylor & Francis
- A Test of Faith? The Mahatma and his Tryst With Bengal, 1946-47 In Hardiman D (Ed.), Non Violence in Modern Indian History New Delhi: Orient Black Swan.
- Grants
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- 2016-2019: Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship awarded by European Commission Research Executive Agency
- Teaching activities
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Undergraduate:
- HST 120: History Workshop
- HST 3307: Decolonising History
- HST 31040: Making History Public
Postgraduate:
- HST 6606: Themes in Global History
- HST 402: Race and Racism in Historical Perspective
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Royal Historical Society (Fellow)
- Royal Asiatic Society (Fellow)
- British Association of South Asian Scholars (Member)
- European Association of South Asian Scholars (Member)
- Public engagement
In the media:
- BBC History Extra Podcast, July 2022
- Partition of India / Podcast Series: Confronting Controversial History / Historical Association, Oct 2022
- BBC History Extra Podcast, July 2022