Lance Brennan (Flinders University of South Australia)

updated: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:35:17 GMT+0930

Dr Lance Brennan
History Discipline
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University of South Australia
P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001

phones: 08/201-2600 (office)
        08/298-2479 (residence)
fax:    08201 2566
email:  HYLB@SIGMA.sss.flinders.edu.au

Description of work:

Regional Interests:
North India (esp. U.P.)

Themes of research:
nationalist politics
communal politics
famine and famine policy
indentured labor
plantation labor
heights of Indians in 19th and 20th centuries
agrarian history

-- With some colleagues (Dr Robin Haines and Dr Katherine Prior) I am
working on a biography of Charles Edward Trevelyan, British and Indian
civil servant. 

Teaching:
India from circa 1000-1860 AD
Modern India - 1857-1950
Contemporary India

-- With a number of other colleagues I am involved in two broad first
year topics: 1. Turning Points (I look at Indian independence as a
turning point (?) in the decline of the British Empire.)
2. Another first year topic called "History's Killing Fields" which
looks at the way humans turn on other humans.