Nandini Chatterjee
Background
Nandini Chatterjee is an Indian-British historian and Professor of South Asian History at the University of Oxford, where she is a Fellow of St Antony's College. Her research focuses on legal, political, and social history of South Asia from the early modern period through British colonial rule, with particular emphasis on Mughal law, legal pluralism, land rights, religious identity, and Persianate administrative cultures. She is the author of Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Empir
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Faculty of History, University of Oxford, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL, United Kingdom
Occupation:
• Professor of South Asian History, Faculty of History & St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Qualification:
• Ph.D. in History: University of Cambridge
• M.Phil. in History: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
• M.A. in History: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
• B.A. (Hons.) in History: Presidency College, Kolkata
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About: - Nandini Chatterjee is an Indian-British historian and Professor of South Asian History at the University of Oxford, where she is a Fellow of St Antony's College. Her research focuses on legal, political, and social history of South Asia from the early modern period through British colonial rule, with particular emphasis on Mughal law, legal pluralism, land rights, religious identity, and Persianate administrative cultures. She is the author of Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Empires and The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830–1960.