Hayden Bellenoit, Associate Professor
South Asian social, religious and economic history
Department of History, Sampson Hall
US Naval Academy
572 Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402
(410) 293-6299
Education
D.Phil - Oxford University, History, 2005
M.St. - Oxford University, Historical Research, 2002
B.A. - Wheaton College, Massachusetts, History & Economics, 2001
Research areas
Indian social, cultural, economic and religious history; History of Islam and Persian cultural influence & traditions in India; 18th century & the 'transition to colonialism'; Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism; India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
Peer reviewed books and monographs
Governance, paper and colonial administration in India, 1760-1860, (Routledge, 2016), under contract
Pakistan: history, politics and culture since 1947 (U.S. Special Operations Command, 2011)
Missionary education and empire in late colonial India, 1860-1920 (Pickering & Chatto, 2007)
Peer reviewed articles in journals
Between qanungos and clerks: the cultural and service worlds of Hindustan’s pensmenc.1750-1900’, Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press), forthcoming, 2013
‘Paper, pens and power between empires in north India, 1750–1850’, South Asian History and Culture (Oxford: Taylor & Francis) 3:3, 348-372, 2012
‘Missionary Education, Religion and Knowledge in India, c.1880-1915’, Modern Asian Studies, (Cambridge University Press), 41:2, pp. 369-394, 2007
Edited volumes
P.V. Rao, H. Bellenoit eds., Perspectives on the History of Education in India (New Delhi: OrientBlackswan, 2013)
Invited Book reviews:
Review of Bhavani Raman, ‘Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India’, American Historical Review, forthcoming 2013
Review of Parna Sengupta, ‘Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal’, Journal of Hindu Studies, Summer 2013
Review of Sanjay Seth, ‘Educating subjects: the western education of colonial India’,Indian Economic and Social History Review, June 2009, pp. 135-38
