Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA is an early modern historian and specialist in the colonial history of India. She is a retired Professor in Indian History and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford.[1] O'Hanlon is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.[3]
O'Hanlon completed her PhD thesis at SOAS on the history of caste protest in western India. This involved archival work in Maharashtra. A revised version of the thesis was published in 1985 by Cambridge University Press.
Select publications
- O'Hanlon, R. 1985. Caste, Conflict and Ideology. Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- O'Hanlon, R. 1988. "Recovering the Subject Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia-Subaltern Studies", Modern Asian Studies 22 (1), 189-224.
- O'Hanlon, R. 2010. "Letters Home: Banaras pandits and the Maratha Regions in early modern India", Modern Asian Studies 44 (2), 201-240.
- O'Hanlon, R. 2013. "Performance in a World of Paper: Puranic Histories and Social communication in Early Modern India", Past and Present 219, 87-126.
- O'Hanlon, R. 2014. At the Edges of Empire: Essays in the Social and Intellectual History of India. New Delhi: Permanent Black.
- O'Hanlon, R. 2014. "'Pre-Modern'" Pasts: South Asia". In Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori (eds.), A Companion to Global Historical Thought. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. 108-121
- O'Hanlon, R., Minkowski, C. and Venkatkishnan, A. (eds) 2015. Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community: Scholar-Intellectuals in Early Modern India. Routledge: London and New York.
References
- "Polly O'Hanlon". University of Oxford. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- "Professor Polly O'Hanlon". Clare College. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- "Professor Rosalind (Polly) O'Hanlon FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 31 December 2022.