India and the British Empire
Edited by Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu
Author Information
Douglas Peers is currently Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo, having previously held positions at York University, the University of Calgary, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-Nineteenth Century India (1995), India Under Colonial Rule, 1700-1885 (2006), and has published more than twenty articles and chapters on the intellectual, political, medical, and cultural dimensions of nineteenth-century India in such journals as the Social History of Medicine, Modern Asian Studies, The Historical Journal, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, International History Review, Radical History Review and Journal of World History.
Nandini Gooptu is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. She teaches history and politics at the Department of International Development, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and the Department of Politics, University of Oxford. Educated in Calcutta and at Cambridge, and trained as a social historian, she is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (2001). While Dr Gooptu's past research has been on colonial India, her current research is concerned with social and political transformation in contemporary India. She has published articles on a variety of subjects, including caste, religion and spiritualism in politics; urban development and politics; poverty, labour, and work.
Contributors:
Nandini Gooptu, Oxford University
Mark Harrison, Oxford University
Javed Majeed, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Douglas M. Peers, University of Waterloo, Canada
Norbert Peabody, University of Cambridge
Christopher Pinney, University College London, University of London
Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Rosalind O'Hanlon, Oxford University
Sandra Den Otter, Queen's University
Mahesh Rangarajan, University of Delhi
Sumit Sarkar, University of Delhi
Tanika Sarkar, University of Delhi
David Washbrook, Cambridge University