Yasmin Khan is a historian of

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and Associate Professor of History at Kellogg College, Oxford.

Education and career

Born in 1977 to Pakistani and Anglo-Irish parents in Kingston-upon-Thames, Khan completed her BA in history at

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. Khan completed her

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in 2005 in Imperial and Commonwealth History. Khan became a lecturer at the

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in 2004 and a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at

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in 2007 before moving to Kellogg College, Oxford as Associate Professor of History in 2012. Khan's work focuses on decolonisation, British migration histories, British Indian history, the Second World War and the End of Empire. Khan is an editor of ''History Workshop Journal'' and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust. Khan's publications include ''The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan'' (2007), which won the Gladstone Prize from the

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and was long-listed for the

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, and ''The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War'' (2015). She has written for the

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newspaper, and appeared on Channel 4 News and BBC Radio.

Public appearances and media

In Our Time (BBC Radio 4 2012)

Khan appeared on a programme discussing the life and work of

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A Passage to Britain (BBC 2 2018)

Khan presented a three-part series for

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in 2018 based on ships' passenger lists between Britain and India to trace the stories of passengers during the three decades before Indian independence in 1947. The first episode, based on the passenger list of the Viceroy of India, included the story of

Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, togethe ...

Britain’s Biggest Dig (BBC 2 2020)

In 2020, Khan presented a three-part series with Professor

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for

on two major archeological digs carried out in London and Birmingham in preparation for building terminals for the HS2 high-speed railway.

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Yasmin 1977 births Living people British people of Pakistani descent 21st-century British historians Academics of the University of Oxford Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford