Hayden Bellenoit

Professor

India, Pakistan/South Asia; social, legal and religious history

• Phone: (410) 293-6290
• E-mail: bellenoi@usna.edu
• US Naval Academy
  572 Holloway Road
  Annapolis, MD 21402
• https://usna.academia.edu/HaydenBellenoit
• http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0971-8601

Education

• 2005. D.Phil., Oxford University, Modern History
• 2002. M.St., Oxford University, Historical Research
• 2001. B.A., Wheaton College (Massachusetts) History, Economics

Publications

Books

• 2017. The Formation of the Colonial State in India: Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860 (Routledge, Routledge Studies in South Asian History Series. ISBN 9780415704472)
• 2007. Missionary Education and Empire in late colonial India, 1860-1920 (Pickering & Chatto; released in paperback by Routledge 2016. ISBN 9781138663503)

Peer-reviewed articles & chapters

• 2023. “Legal limbo and caste consternation: determining Kayasthas' varna​ rank in Indian law courts, 1860-1930”, Law and History Review (Cambridge University Press), 41 (1), 43-64
• 2023. “Taming the monsoon economy: taxes and mastering time in India, 1760-1860,” in B. Schmidt, M. John, A. Pande, eds., Time and Temporality in the Asian and European Modernity, (DOBU Verlag), 103-113
• 2023. “The Freedom Movement in Corridor and Classroom: missionaries and India's religious tapestry, 1870s-1930s”, Pariprekshya (परिप्रेक्ष्य; "Perspective"): A Hindi Journal of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (New Delhi), 73-84
• 2022. “Flesh, booze and (contested) lineages: Kayasthas, caste and colonial ethnography, 1870-1930”, South Asian History and Culture (Oxford: Taylor & Francis), 13:2, 157-179
• 2021. “Revenue Extraction in Colonial India”, in Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia (Routledge), 167-177
• 2021. “David Washbrook – a Memoir", South Asian History and Culture, 12:4, 451-452
• 2014. “Between qanungos and clerks: the cultural and service worlds of Hindustan’s pensmen, 1750-1900”, Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press), 48:4, 872-910
• 2013. “Education, Missionaries and the Indian Nation, c. 1880-1920”, in P. Rao, ed., Perspectives on the History of Education in India (Orient-Blackswan), 176-195
• 2012. “Paper, pens and power between empires in north India, 1750–1850”, South Asian History and Culture (Oxford: Taylor & Francis) 3:3, 348-372
• 2007. “Missionary Education, Religion and Knowledge in India, c.1880-1915”, Modern Asian Studies, (Cambridge University Press), 41:2, 369-394