Gyanesh Kudaisya

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Gyanesh Kudaisya(born 1959) is a Historian of modern India whose main research focusses on Uttar Pradesh, India. He is Associate Professor and Head of the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore.

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[edit] Education

He was born in a North Indian town and grew up in New Delhi and completed his schooling and undergraduate studies there. He joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) for a M. A. in Modern and Contemporary History. He also pursued a two-year M. Phil programme at JNU. After that he worked with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in New Delhi for three years as an Editor and Corporate Communications professional, before going to the University of Cambridge to pursue his Phd.

[edit] Career

Prior to joining the South Asian Studies Programme, of which he has been a member since its inception in June 1999, he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts in Nanyang Technological University.

[edit] Books/Edited Volumes (Selection)

  • Region, nation, "heartland": Uttar Pradesh in India's body-politic, Thousand Oaks, Calif.:Sage Publications, 2006.
  • Partition and post-colonial South Asia : a reader coedited with Tai Yong Tan, London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
  • The aftermath of partition in South Asia, coauthored with Tai Yong Tan, London : Routledge, 2000.

[edit] Articles

  • [Servants, Not Masters’: Colonial Officials, Congress “Raj” and the Question of Loyalty in Northern India, 1937-1939’, [Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History], 2006].
  • [In Aid of Civil Power”: The Colonial Army in Northern India, c. 1919-1942’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2004 Frank Cass Publishers, London, UK]
  • [Constructing the “Heartland”: Uttar Pradesh in India’s Body-Politic’, South Asia, Journal of South Asian Studies, New Series Vol. XXV, No. 2, August 2002, Special Issue, pp. 153-182. Taylor & Francis Publishers, London, UK.]
  • [India's New Mantra: The Internet’, Current History, A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 100, 645 (April 2001): 162-169.]

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