About
Professor Ian Talbot is Emeritus Professor in History of Modern South Asia at the University of Southampton.
Research
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Research interests
- The history of the colonial Punjab
- The 1947 Partition of India
- The history of Pakistan
Research projects
Completed projects
Researchers:
Sponsor: British Academy
Researchers:
Sponsor: The Rothschild Foundation (changed from Hanadiv Charitable Trust)
Researchers:
Sponsor: British Academy
Publications
81 publications
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Biography
Educated at Royal Holloway College, University of London where I graduated with a BA First in Modern History, Economic History and Politics in 1976. I was awarded a University of London PhD in 1981 for my doctoral thesis, ‘The Growth of the Muslim League in the Punjab 1937-46.’ I was awarded an MA in History from the University of Oxford in 2004.
Appointments held
- 1979-82 - Tutor History, University College of North Wales, Bangor.
- 1982-85 - Visiting Lecturer History, West London Institute of Higher Education.
- 1985-88 - Lecturer, South Asian History, University of Sussex.
- 1988-90 - Lecturer, Humanities, Brighton Polytechnic.
- 1990-98 - Senior Lecturer, History, Coventry University.
- 1998-02 - Reader, South Asian Studies, Coventry University.
- 1998-05 - Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, Coventry University.
- 2002-05 - Professor, South Asian Studies, Coventry University.
- 2005-19 - Professor, Modern British History, University of Southampton.
- 2009-12 - Head of History, University of Southampton.
- 2016-18- Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton.
- 2019-21- Professor of Modern South Asian History.
- 2021- Emeritus Professor in the History of Modern South Asia.
From 2017-2021, I was an elected Council member of the Royal Asiatic Society. I was previously Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies (2011-14) and a Member of the British academy South Asian Panel (2011-16).