Dr. Anwesha Roy

University of Sheffield

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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


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