Dr. Anwesha Roy
University of Sheffield
Expertise on
Countries: Bangladesh, India
Policy Areas & Themes: Gender, History, Politics, Violence
Bio
Anwesha is a historian of 20th century colonial South Asia with specific expertise on India. She is currently a Lecturer of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, having previously taught at the University of Oxford, Kings College London, SOAS and LSE. Her research specialisms include religious violence, migration, gender, identity politics and the histories of the Second World War in colonial and post-colonial India.
In addition to her core training as a historian, she regularly works with inter-disciplinary methods, drawing especially from political science to understand and analyse gender, identity politics and violence in contemporary Indian politics.
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special research expertise on
Religious violence
Migration
Identity politics
Histories of the Second World War in colonial and post-colonial India
Engagement experience includes
Contributions to academia-analyst dialogue workshops
Writing and speaking for public blogs, periodicals, and podcasts
Working with school teachers, advising them on how to approach the topic of the Partition of India (1947) in British schools (in partnership with the History Association)
Read a sample of Anwesha’s research outputs
World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: Perceptions, Rumours and Revolutionary Parties, South Asia, 2021
Making Peace, Making Riots: Communalism and Communal Violence, Bengal 1940–1947, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Listen to Anwesha speaking about Partition on podcasts: BBC History Extra Podcast, July 2022; Historical Association: Confronting Controversial History, Oct 2022