Yasmin Khan
Born1977
Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, England
CitizenshipBritish
EducationUniversity of Oxford MA, DPhil
OccupationsHistorian, Academic:
SpouseMarried
Children2
Websitewww.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/yasmin-khan-2

Yasmin Khan is a historian of British India and Associate Professor of History at Kellogg College, Oxford.[1]

Education and career

Born in 1977 to Pakistani parents in Kingston-upon-Thames, Khan completed her BA in history at St Peter's College, Oxford. Khan completed her DPhil at St Anthony's College, Oxford in 2005 in Imperial and Commonwealth History.[2]

Khan became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 2004 and a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2007 before moving to Kellogg College, Oxford as Associate Professor of History in 2012. Khan's work focuses on decolonisation, British migration histories, British Indian history, the Second World War and the End of Empire.[1]

Khan is an editor of History Workshop Journal[3] and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust.[4]

Khan's publications include The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007),[5] which won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society[6] and was long-listed for the Orwell Prize,[7] and The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War (2015).[7][8] She has written for the Guardian newspaper,[9] and appeared on Channel 4 News and BBC Radio.[10]

Public appearances and media

In Our Time (BBC Radio 4 2012)

Khan appeared on a programme discussing the life and work of Annie Besant.[11]

A Passage to Britain (BBC 2 2018)

Khan presented a three-part series for BBC 2 in 2018 based on ships' passenger lists between Britain and India to trace the stories of passengers during the three decades before Indian independence in 1947.[12][13][14]

The first episode, based on the passenger list of the Viceroy of India, included the story of Mulk Raj Anand.[15]

Britain’s Biggest Dig (BBC 2 2020)

In 2020, Khan presented a three-part series with Professor Alice Roberts for BBC 2 on two major archeological digs carried out in London and Birmingham in preparation for building terminals for the HS2 high-speed railway.[16]

Selected publications

  • The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale University: Yale University Press. 2017 [2007]. ISBN 978-0300230321.
  • The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War. London: Vintage. 2015 [2016]. ISBN 978-0099542278.

References

  1. 1 2 "Yasmin Khan | Kellogg College". www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Convenors". The British Empire at War Research Group. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Editorial_Board | History Workshop Journal | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Trusts, The Charles Wallace. "The Charles Wallace Trusts". www.wallace-trusts.org.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Reviewed by Ian Copland in The American Historical Review, 2008, Vol. 113(5), pp.1508-1509 [Peer Reviewed Journal] and in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/9507188
  6. ↑ "Gladstone Prize - Past Winners" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Dr. Yasmin Khan". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "For king, then country". 5 May 2016 – via The Economist.
  9. ↑ "Yasmin Khan". the Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Dr Yasmin Khan | United Agents". www.unitedagents.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Annie Besant, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  12. ↑ "BBC Two - A Passage to Britain". BBC. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  13. ↑ "A Passage to Britain | Faculty of History". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  14. ↑ Wollaston, Sam (14 August 2018). "A Passage to Britain review – Who Do You Think You Are? for the empire". the Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  15. ↑ "The Viceroy of India, Series 1, A Passage to Britain - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  16. ↑ "BBC Two - Britain's Biggest Dig". BBC. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
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