University of Oxford History Faculty

Faculty Postholders

Professor Judith Brown

M.A., Ph.D., Hon. Doc. Soc. Science (Natal), F.R.Hist.S.
Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth

Research Interests

Professor Brown's main interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asian history and politics,and South Asian migration & the modern South Asian diaspora

Supervision Interests

19th & 20th century South Asian history & Politics; South Asian migration and the modern S. Asian diaspora; modern Hindusim; gender and imperialism; missionary work in the context of empire

Selected Publications:

'India- 1947: the Making of a Nation State', South asian Archives and Library Group Newsletter. Vol 1
Modern India. The Origins of an Asian Democracy. (Oxford, 1994) 459pp.
(ed.) Migration. The Asian Experience . (Basingstoke, 1994)
(ed.) Gandhi and South Africa. Principles and Politics . (Pietermaritzburg, 1996)
(ed.) The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. IV. The twentieth century . (Oxford, 1999) 800pp.
(ed.) Christians, cultural interactions and India's religious traditions . (Michigan and Cambridge, 2002)
Nehru. A Political Life. (London & New Haven, 2003) 407pp.
'Who is an Indian? Dilemmas of National Identity at the End of the British Raj in India' in Missions, Nationalism and the End of Empire. (Grand Rapids & Cambridge UK, 2003) pp. 111-131
'What does Gandhi have to say to Modern India' in Indien heute. Brennenpunkte seiner Innenpolitik. (Munich, 2003) pp. 191
'British society and decolonization: Adjusting to the end of Empire' in State and Empire in British History. Proceedings of the 4th Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians 2003. (Tokyo, 2003) pp. 250
Global South Asians. Introducing the Modern Diaspora. (Cambridge, 2006) 193pp.
''Making a new home in the diaspora: opportunities and dilemmas in the British south Asian experience'', Contemporary South Asia. Vol Vol.15, No. 2, June 2006 (2006) pp. 125-131
'Reading Unto this Last - A Transformative Experience: Gandhi in South Africa' in Ruskin's Struggle for Coherence: Self-Representation through Art, Place and Society. (Newcastle, 2006) pp. 154-165

Future Publications:

'Indian Christians and Nehru's nation state' in Essays in honour of R.E. Frykenberg. (2006)
'The Essential Works of Mahatma Gandhi' in . (2007)

Research Interests and Activities

International, Imperial and Global History