Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon is a early modern historian and specialist in the colonial history of India. She is a retired Professor in Indian History and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. O'Hanlon is an Emeritus Fellow of

Clare College Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded ...

.. She was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2020.

Select publications

*O'Hanlon, R. 2010. "Letters Home: Banaras pandits and the Maratha Regions in early modern India", ''Modern Asian Studies'' 44 (2), 201-240. *O'Hanlon, R. 2013. "Performance in a World of Paper: Puranic Histories and Social communication in Early Modern India", ''Past and Present'' 219, 87-126. *O'Hanlon, R. 2014. ''At the Edges of Empire: Essays in the Social and Intellectual History of India''. New Delhi: Permanent Black. *O'Hanlon, R. 2014. "'Pre-Modern'" Pasts: South Asia". In Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori (eds.), ''A Companion to Global Historical Thought''. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. 108-121 *O'Hanlon, R., Minkowski, C. and Venkatkishnan, A. (eds) 2015. ''Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community: Scholar-Intellectuals in Early Modern India''. Routledge: London and New York.

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