Maria Misra

Maria Misra is a Lecturer in Modern History at University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College, specialising in the politics, culture, and economics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism and colonialism.She has written two books on Indian history: Business, Race and Politics in British India and Vishnus Crowded Temple, India since the Great Rebellion. The latter, published by Allen Lane to be timed with Indias 60 years of independence, addresses the question of how Indias 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.

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