YASMIN KHAN

Yasmin Khan has been an Associate Professor in British History and a Fellow of Kellogg College since 2012. She studied at St. Peter's and St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and she has been a lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh and Royal Holloway.  Her research focuses on the history of the British in India, the British Empire, South Asian decolonization, refugees and the aftermath of empire.

Her first book was The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan (Yale, 2007)  and she has published The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War (Penguin, 2015) as well as contributing to scholarly journals and the media.  

Dr Khan is involved with the Race and Resistance Programme (2021)