Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon is an 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 The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. 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

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

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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