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Dr Ashok Malhotra

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Dr Ashok Malhotra

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Ashok Malhotra is a historian of British India, as well of the twentieth century global organic farming movement. He completed his PhD at Edinburgh University and has previously served as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. His current research project examines the ways in which colonial and agricultural research, undertaken in British India in the twentieth century, subsequently shaped the organic and environmental movements which emerged in the 1940s and 60s in Britain and the US.

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Research Interests

I am open to PhD applications in the field of British imperial history in India from the eighteenth to twentieth century, Imperial Science, twentieth century British and US agricultural and environmental history and global history.

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Public outreach & key achievements

Gruelling Ordeals: The Workhouse Diet, 1850-1950: Workshop organised with Leonie Hannon and Olwen Purdue (QUB) for the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities' Festival 2015 (12 Oct 2015)
Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Small Grant for 'Robert McCarrison, the Hunzas and the Organic Movements, 1900-1966 (October 2015)

Research students

PhD Title	Dr. Gerald Daniel Louis "The East India Company and the Transportation of Convicts from the Madras Presidency, 1789 - 1858", 05/10/2015 → 04/06/2020

PhD Title	Dr. Prayag Ray, "Negotiating Hinduism: Indian Religion and English-Language Texts 1705-1830", 09/02/2016 → 19/11/2018

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title	Negotiating Hinduism: Indian Religion and English-Language Texts 1705-1830
Current Position	Dr Prayag Ray is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of English at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata