History Department

Hayden Bellenoit, Assistant Professor

South Asian social, religious and cultural history; India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Indian Ocean

Email:  bellenoi@usna.edu
Phone:
410-293-6299

Education and Qualifications:

  • D.Phil - Oxford University, History, 2005
  • M.St. - Oxford University, Historical Research, 2002
  • 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).






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