Maria Misra
Maria Misra is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College, specialising in the politics, culture, and economics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism and colonialism.
She has written two books on India's colonial history: Business, Race and Politics in British India and Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India since the Great Rebellion. The latter, published by Allen Lane to be timed with India's 60 years of independence, addresses the question of how India's traditions of caste and religious identities are able to coexist with a modern democratic state on its way to becoming a major economic power. Misra traces the origins of this paradox to India's colonial history and gives a detailed account of how the colonial government promoted and exploited the divisions within the society and how independent India has attempted to reverse these trends.
She has presented a television documentary series on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India which was broadcast in 2001, has written for the New Statesman and The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to the Saturday Review on Radio 4 and to the Times Higher Education Supplement.[1]
Peer-reviewed academic work
- "Politics and Expatriate Enterprise in India: The Inter-War Years" in Business and Politics in India: A Historical Perspective (ed. D.Tripathi), (New Delhi, 1991)
- Business, Race and Politics in British India c.1860-1960. (Oxford, 1999) 250pp.
- "Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Raj: British Policy in India, c. 1860-1947" in Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate of Empire (ed. R.E. Dumett), (Basingstoke, 1999) pp 157-174
- "Business Culture and Entrepreneurship in British India, 1860-1950", Modern Asian Studies 34:2 (2000) pp 333-348
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