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Dr Darakhshan Khan

Lecturer in Modern Islamic History

Background

I am a historian of Islam, class, and gender in modern South Asia. I received my PhD from the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and a Master's degree in Asian Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.

Before joining Newcastle University I worked as a research fellow at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (Virginia, USA).

I grew up in Bombay, India, where I finished my undergraduate degree in Microbiology. Before turning to humanities and academia I worked as a journalist in Bombay for seven years.


Research
My book project examines the rise of social reform movements in colonial India. In particular, I am interested in their intersection with the history of the household and the reconfiguration of women's labour inside and outside the domestic space. I am also interested in the creation of the middle-class home as a non-economic site of socialisation and piety.
My second project examines the strategies and potential of political mobilisation among the lower caste and working class Indian Muslims in the early 1900s as an alternative to the faith-based politics of elite Hindus and Muslims in the same period.
 
Teaching

HIS3358: Shariat Meets Common Law


HIS3326: Women in Colonial South Asia: Tradition, Reform and Modernity


HIS2304: Crafting History: The Dissertation Proposal

 

HIS2316: Researching History


HIS2308: History and Films: Representing the Past

 

HIS3000: Reading History

 

HIS3020: Writing History

 

HIS3030: History and Society


HIS8120: Missions, Missionaries and Empires in World History: British, European and Informal Empires

 


Publications