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Dr Ashok Malhotra
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsAshok Malhotra is a historian of British imperial India. He completed his PhD at Edinburgh University and has previously served as a BA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. He is currently researching the manner in which medical research, undertaken in British colonial India in the early C20th, influenced discourses pertaining to nutrition and race in Britain, colonial India, and North America.
He is further interested in the construction of racial stereotypes of Indians during the period of the British Raj.
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Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- History of Imperial Science in India
- Nutritional Science History
- British literary representations of India
- Missionary Networks of Print
Public outreach & key achievements
- Gruelling Ordeals: The Workhouse Diet, 1850-1950: Workshop organised with Leonie Hannon and Olwen Purdue (QUB) for the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities' Festival 2015 (12 Oct 2015)
- Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Small Grant for 'Robert McCarrison, the Hunzas and the Organic Movements, 1900-1966 (October 2015)
Research students
| PhD Title | The East India Company and the Transportation of Convicts from the Madras Presidency, 1789 - 1858 |
| Country | USA |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Negotiating Hinduism: Indian Religion and English-Language Texts 1705-1830 |
| Country | India |
| Current Position | Postdoc at North Western University, Chicago |