Crispin Bates

Crispin Bates completed his Ph.D. in Indian history at Cambridge University and is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History in the School of History, Classics & Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He has also been Director of Edinburgh University's Centre for South Asian studies. A former Research Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, he has also been a visiting Professor at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, a Visiting Fellow at the Netaji Asian Studies Institute in Calcutta, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Culture in the University of Tokyo, and held Visiting Professorships at the National Museum of Ethnology, Kyoto University, and Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He is currently an Honorary Professor in AFASAS, University of Kyoto, and in the Asia-Europe Institute in the University of Malaya. Between 2006-2008 he was the Principal Investigator in a major AHRC-funded project entitled 'Mutiny at the Margins' - which concerned the Indian Uprising of 1857. The product of this was a series of seven edited and co-edited volumes (including a source book) published by Sage, New Delhi, in 2013-17. Most recently he led an AHRC research project ('Becoming "Coolies"') concerning the history of South Asian overseas labour migration in the colonial era, which caused him to work in archives all around the Indian Ocean region. A new book series with Cambridge University Press entitled 'Global South Asians' has been founded as one of the outcomes of this project.