Ashok Malhotra

Short Biography

Ashok Malhotra is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates British fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry, 1772–1823. His research interests, however, extend to metropolitan print, visual and commodity culture during the late 18th and early 19th century. He presently teaches Japanese History and Asian African History at the University of Edinburgh, as well as lecturing on topics such as ‘Asian Britain, 1780–1825’ and ‘Colonial Constructions of Hinduism, 1780–1850’. He has recently helped organize the BASAS conference in Edinburgh (2009), where he co-convened and presented in the panel ‘Performing Colonial Modernity’. Ashok has also presented papers in conferences for South Asian scholars in Amsterdam and for postcolonial scholars in Bristol. He holds an MSc in History by Research from the University of Edinburgh, in addition to a BA in English Literature from the University of Leicester.