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Dr Jonathan Saha
Teaching Fellow in History
Office: 2.6, 36 Tyndall's Park Rd Consultation hours (PDF)
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Email: J.Saha@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
Jonathan specialises in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on British Burma. His current research interests are in the history of corruption within the colonial state, exploring how the state was experienced and imagined in everyday life. He has recently completed his PhD on this topic, as well as several articles and (almost finished!) a book. As well as corruption, he has an on going research interest in the history of madness and psychiatry in colonial Burma.
Research Supervision
He is interested in supervising dissertations on colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, particularly those on the subjects of medicine, crime, punishment, law, violence or the everyday state.
Selected publications
'A Mockery of Justice? Colonial Law, the Everyday State, and Village Politics in the Burma Delta, c.1890-1910', Past & Present (Forthcoming, 2012).
'Madness and the Making of a Colonial Order in Burma', Modern Asian Studies (Forthcoming, 2012).
'Histories of Everyday Violence in British India', History Compass (Forthcoming, 2011).
'The Male State: Colonialism, Corruption and Rape Investigations in the Irrawaddy Delta, c.1900', Indian Economic & Social History Review, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2010): 343-376.
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