Yasmin Khan | |
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![]() Khan in 2022 | |
Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Yasmin Cordery Khan |
Occupation(s) | Historian, novelist and broadcaster |
Awards | Gladstone Book Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh Royal Holloway, University of London Kellogg College, Oxford |
Notable works | The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan |
Yasmin Cordery Khan is a British historian, novelist and broadcaster whose work focuses on the British Empire, Colonial India and the decolonisation of South Asia. She is a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford and Professor of Modern History based in the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. [1]
Khan is from London and of Pakistani and Irish descent. [2] Khan completed her BA in History at St Peter's College, Oxford. Khan completed her DPhil at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2005 in Imperial and Commonwealth History. [3]
Khan held positions at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Holloway, University of London before joining Kellogg College in 2012. [3] Khan's work focuses on decolonisation, British migration histories, British Indian history, the Second World War and the End of Empire. [1] In October 2024 she was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Modern History by the University of Oxford. [4]
Khan is a member of the editorial board of History Workshop Journal [5] and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust. [6] She served as Kellogg College's senior tutor between 2019 and 2022. [7] [8] Khan was a judge of the 2022 Cundill History Prize administered by McGill University. [9]
Khan's publications include The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007), [10] which won the Gladstone Book Prize from the Royal Historical Society [11] and was long-listed for the Orwell Prize, [12] and The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War (2015). [12] [13] She has written for the Guardian newspaper, [14] and appeared on Channel 4 News and BBC Radio. [15]
Her first work of fiction, Edgware Road, was published in 2022. [1] A second novel, Overland, was published in 2024. [16]
Khan appeared on a programme discussing the life and work of Annie Besant. [17]
Khan presented a three-part series for BBC 2 in 2018 based on ships' passenger lists between Britain and India to trace the stories of passengers during the three decades before Indian independence in 1947. [18] [19] [20]
The first episode, based on the passenger list of the Viceroy of India, included the story of Mulk Raj Anand. [21]
In 2020, Khan presented a three-part series with Professor Alice Roberts for BBC 2 on two major archeological digs carried out in London and Birmingham in preparation for building terminals for the HS2 high-speed railway. [22]