South Asian social, religious and cultural history;
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Indian Ocean
Email:
bellenoi@usna.edu
Phone: 410-293-6299
Education and Qualifications:
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D.Phil - Oxford University, History, 2005
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M.St. - Oxford University, Historical Research, 2002
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B.A. - Wheaton College, Massachusetts, History &
Economics, 2001
Research Interests:
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
Recent Publications:
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 pensmen c.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
Contributions to Edited volumes
‘Education, missionaries and the Indian Nation, c.
1880-1920’, in P.V. Rao, H. Bellenoit eds.,Perspectives
on the History of Education in India
(New Delhi: OrientBlackswan, 2013)
‘Perspectives in the History of Indian Education’, P.V.
Rao, H. Bellenoit, Perspectives on the History
of Education in India
(New Delhi: OrientBlackswan, 2013)
‘Students, scribes and scholars: learning and community
between the Mughal and British Empires’, in F. Bateman,
M. O’Cinneide, eds., Education and Empire,
negotiating contract
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
Review of Manu Bhagavan, ‘Sovereign Spheres: Princes,
Education and Empire in colonial India’, Journal of
the Oxford University History Society, 2005
Current
works in progress for refereeing
Taxes, revenue and bureaucratic despotism in India, c.1765-1793’,
co-authored with Nandini Chatterjee, Plymouth
University, 8,000 words, completion January 2013
Seminars and Conferences
‘Law and revenue administration in India, 1770-1830’,
panel organizer, Self and the Law Conference, Plymouth
University, UK, September 2013
‘Paper, literary culture and munshi-gari in 18th
century India’, Conference on Histories of Material Life
in South Asia, 1500-1900, Centre for History and
Economics, Cambridge University, 15-17, April 2013
‘Bureaucracy, revenue and administration in early
colonial India, 1760-1830’, 64th Annual
Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), San
Diego, March 2013
‘Between qanungos and clerks: Kayasthas and
‘education’ in early modern India’, Annual Madison
Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, 14 October
2012
‘The cultural and service worlds of the pensmen of
Hindustan, 1750-1850’, Centre for South Asian Studies,
Cambridge University, 16 May 2012
‘The bureaucratic foundations of Empire in colonial
India, 1750-1850’, Centre for South Asian Studies,
Cambridge University, 25 November 2010
‘Pens, paper and power between empires in India,
1770-1870’, Department of History Lecture Series, Jamia
Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, 23 July 2010
‘Students, saints and scholars: learning and community
between empires in India, 1770-1870’, 6th
Galway Conference on Colonialism, Galway University,
Ireland, 24 June 2010
‘Islam, Hinduism, the public sphere and modernity in
colonial India, 1850-1920’, 48th
International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA)
Conference, Panel Co-Organizer with Dr Nandini
Chatterjee, Plymouth University, UK, 15 November 2008,
New Delhi, India, November 2008
‘Learning, education and knowledge in the transition to
colonialism in India, c.1750-1850’. 60th
annual meeting of Association of Asian Studies (AAS),
Atlanta, 6 April 2008
‘Aesthetics, education and the environment in colonial
north India, 1840-1940’, South Asia Seminar Series, St
Antony’s College, Oxford, 29 May 2007
‘Education and Indian society in the emergence of modern
knowledge and religions’, Imperial History Seminar,
Kings College, University of London, 16 October 2006
‘Education and Indian secularism in colonial India’,
panel with Professor C.A. Bayly, N. Chatterjee,‘Religion
and the Public Sphere in Colonial India’, 74th
Annual Anglo-American Conference of Historians,
Institute of Historical Research, London, 7 July 2005
‘Education, religion and “colonial knowledge” in north
India,1880-1915’, Centre for South Asian Studies,
Edinburgh University, 17 March 2004
‘Education, religion and colonial knowledge in north
India, 1880-1915’, to South Asian Seminar Series, St
Antony’s College, Oxford University, 16 November 2004
‘Religion, education and colonial knowledge in North
India, 1880-1915’, Centre for South Asian Studies,
Cambridge University, 3 November 2004
Organized panels for Conferences
Panel organizer and presenter, ‘Bureaucracy and
governance in historical South Asia’, 64th
annual meeting of Association of Asian Studies, San
Diego, March 2013
Panel organizer and presenter, ‘Between maktabs
and universities: education and learning as encounters
in Indian history’, 24th Annual Conference on
South Asia, University of Wisconsin Madison, October
2012
Panel organizer, ‘Learning, education and knowledge in
the transition to colonialism in India, c.1750-1850’.
Panel: ‘Continuity vs. change: education, learning and
tradition in Indian society, 1700-1950’, 60th
annual meeting of Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta,
6 April 2008
‘Missionary education, knowledge and north Indian
society, 1880-1915’, for ‘Colonial Knowledge and
Empire’, 20th Annual South Asian Studies
Conference, University of California at Berkeley,
11-12 February 2005
‘Research Languages:
Hindi (written, advanced; intermediate,
oral)
Urdu (intermediate, oral and written)
Farsi (written, intermediate; oral,
intermediate)
English (fluent, oral and written)
French (intermediate, oral and written).