Rakesh Ankit studied history at Delhi, Oxford and Southampton, and taught at OP Jindal Global University (Sonipat, India), before joining Â鶹ֱ²¥ in 2018.
Rakesh’s previous research was on the evolution of the Kashmir conflict against the twin backdrops of Decolonisation and the Cold War, and on the Interim Governments in India, 1946-51. His next project looks at the nationalisation of commercial banks in India, 1969.
- Making and Unmaking of the Modern World Order
- From Rebellion to Partition: British India, 1857-1947
- After Empire: South Asia since 1945
Completed Postgraduate Research Students
- Franziska Karpinski: Between Depression and Zeal: Conceptions of Masculinity in the Wartime Letters of SS Hauptsturmführer Maximilian Guttenbrunner, 1939–1943)
Books
- (OUP, 2019)
- (Routledge, 2016)
Book Chapters
- in Madhavan K. Palat (edited) India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2017), pp. 160-188
Recent Articles
- 'Looking for Dr B. R. Ambedkar in The Times of India, December 1956–April 1990', History and Sociology of South Asia,
- Dewan Chaman Lall: From Trade Unions to the Indian Union, 1946–1966’, Studies in Indian Politics,
- ‘De-linking ‘the two rupees’: Devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonised subcontinent, September 1949-February 1951’, Modern Asian Studies,
- ‘In Trust for the Three Nations? The India Office Library & Records Dispute, 1947-72’, Contemporary British History,