Yasmin Khan is a Doctor historian of British Pakistan and Associate Professor of History at Kellogg College, Oxford.[1]
Khan completed her BA in history at St Peter's College, Oxford. Khan completed her DPhil at St Anthony's College, Oxford in 2005 in Imperial and Commonwealth History.[2]
Khan held position at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Holloway, University of London before moving to Kellogg College in 2012.[2] Khan's work focuses on decolonisation, British migration histories, British Indian history, the Second World War and the End of Empire.[1]
Khan is an editor of History Workshop Journal[3] and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust.[4]
Khan's publications include The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007),[5] which won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society[6] and was long-listed for the Orwell Prize,[7] and The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War (2015).[7][8] She has written for the Guardian newspaper,[9] and appeared on Channel 4 News and BBC Radio.[10]
Her first work of fiction, "Edgware Road", was published in 2022.[1]
Khan appeared on a programme discussing the life and work of Annie Besant.[11]
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.[12][13][14]
The first episode, based on the passenger list of the Viceroy of India, included the story of Mulk Raj Anand.[15]
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.[16]
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