Crispin Bates (University of Edinburgh)

Dr. Crispin Bates
Reader in Modern South Asian History
and
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
University of Edinburgh

mailing address:
Dr. Crispin Bates
Department of History
The University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Building
50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JY
Scotland, U.K.

phones: +44-131-650-3765
        +44-131-650-3780 (secretary)
Fax:    +44-131-650-3784
email:  Crispin.Bates@ed.ac.uk
url:    http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/pwp/crispinbates.php

Description of work:

Research Interests:

(1) The economic, social and political history of central India, in the
eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

(2) Indian migrant labour, particularly migration to and from Madhya
Pradesh.

(3) Adivasi history from the mid eighteenth century up to the present
including pre-colonial and colonial perceptions of tribal society; the
discourse of colonial anthropology and its use as a means of social
control; crime, criminality, and the policing of colonial central India;
Forests and Forest Policy. 

(4) Orientalism and colonial discourse.

(5) Gandhi and Indian independence

(6) the Indian Mutiny and Uprising of 1857: marginal perspectives

[labour / labor]