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| Born | Anna-Maria Susheila Misra |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of Global History |
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| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Tapan Raychaudhuri Tom Tomlinson |
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| Discipline | History |
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Anna-Maria Susheila Misra is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College, specialising in the politics, culture, and economics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism and colonialism. [1]
Misra matriculated as a student of Christ Church, Oxford in 1982, originally reading English before changing to Philosophy, Politics and Economics. [2]
Misra's doctoral thesis examined relations between British and Indian businessmen during the colonial period and was supervised by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Tom Tomlinson. [3]
Misra joined Keble College as Associate Professor of Modern History in 1996. She had previously taught at the University of Birmingham and Coventry Polytechnic. [2] She was awarded a Title of Distinction as Professor of Global History by the University of Oxford in November 2020. [4]
She has written two books on Indian history: Business, Race and Politics in British India and Vishnu's Crowded Temple, India since the Great Rebellion . The latter, published by Allen Lane to be timed with India's 60 years of independence, addresses the question of how India's traditions of caste and religious identities are able to coexist with a modern democratic state on its way to becoming a major economic power.
She has presented a television documentary series on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India which was broadcast in 2001, has written for the New Statesman , The Guardian , The Times and The Financial Times and has contributed to the Saturday Review on Radio 4. She is a columnist for the Times Higher Education Supplement . [5]
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