Ashok Malhotra
Queen's University Belfast, University of Warwick, Edinburgh University, University of Leicester
0000-0001-6845-6766
About
I am a Senior Lecturer in colonial and postcolonial Indian history within the School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. I have previously served as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2012-2015). I am the author of "Making British Indian Fictions, 1772-1823" which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012 and have also published articles in various peer-reviewed academic journals such as "South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies", "Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal", "Cultural and Social History", "Nineteenth-Century Literature", "Script and Print" and "Literature and Theology". I have thus a track record in publishing research in fields as diverse as South Asian history, nutritional history, cultural history, religious history and literary studies. My current research project "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to 'Shangri-La', 1925-1969" examines the role played by British colonial agricultural and nutritional research in India in shaping the soil protection and organic movements which emerged in Britain and the US in the twentieth century.
Employment
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Queen's University Belfast Senior Lecturer in History2021 - Present
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Queen's University Belfast Lecturer in History2019 - 2021
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Queen's University Belfast Academic Research Fellow2015 - 2019
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University of Warwick British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow2012 - 2015
Education
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Edinburgh University PhD in History2006 - 2010
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Edinburgh University Masters in History2005 - 2006
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University of Leicester BA honours1997 - 2000
Projects & Funding
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Publications (9)
- Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–35 Save
- Cutting Edge Research in the Contact Zone? The Establishment of the Nutritional Research Laboratories in Coonoor (1925–27) Save
- Race, Diet, and Class: Robert McCarrison’s Laboratory Rat Experiments in Coonoor, 1925–27 Save
- Attempting to Transform the Mental Landscape of the Indian ‘Heathen’ in Mary Sherwood’s The Indian Pilgrim (1818) Save
- The Pedagogical Function of Mary Sherwood's The History Of Little Henry and His Bearer In 'Heathen' Lands Save
- Advertising colonial romance and imperial masculinity: The promotion of Philip Meadows Taylor's novels in Britain Save
- Making British Indian Fictions, 1772-1823 Save
- Performing Imperial Masculinity in British Theatre in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Save
- Book-History Approaches to India: Representations of the Subcontinent in the Novel and Verse, 1780-1823 Save