Crispin Bates

Domaine de recherche

Asie du Sud

Pays de résidence

Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord

Titre

Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History

Affiliation

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Adresse électronique

Crispin.Bates@ed.ac.uk

Adresse

Department of History
The University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Building
50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JY
Scotland, U.K.

Téléphone/Télécopie

phones: +44-131-650-3765
+44-131-650-3780 (secretary)
Fax: +44-131-650-3784

Site de web

http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/pwp/crispinbates.php

Pays de spécialisation

India, Pakistan

Recherche

(1) The economic, social and political history of central India, in the
eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

(2) Indian migrant labour, particularly migration to and from Madhya
Pradesh.

(3) Adivasi history from the mid eighteenth century up to the present
including pre-colonial and colonial perceptions of tribal society; the
discourse of colonial anthropology and its use as a means of social
control; crime, criminality, and the policing of colonial central India;
Forests and Forest Policy.

(4) Orientalism and colonial discourse.

(5) Gandhi and Indian independence

(6) the Indian Mutiny and Uprising of 1857: marginal perspectives

Publications

2017
C. Bates and M. Carter (ed.), Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume VII: Documents of the Indian Uprising (New Delhi: Sage)

2015
C.Bates and M.Mio (eds), Cities in South Asia (London: Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies)
C.Bates, A.Tanabe and M.Mio (eds), Human and International Security in India (London: Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies)

2014
C. Bates (ed.), Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume VI: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: The Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising (SAGE Publications)

For more, see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_tab1_academic.php?uun=cbs

Mots-clés

economics; social history ; political history ; migrant labor ; colonial anthropology ; forestry ; .