Crispin Bates

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of African and Asian Studies, Kyoto University. He has authored, coauthored and edited a total of 15 books including a history of South Asia from 1600 to the present, entitled Subalterns and Raj (2007), and a series of seven volumes concerning the history of the Indian uprising of 1857, entitled 'Mutiny at the Margins' (2013-2017). In...See more

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of African and Asian Studies, Kyoto University. He has authored, coauthored and edited a total of 15 books including a history of South Asia from 1600 to the present, entitled Subalterns and Raj (2007), and a series of seven volumes concerning the history of the Indian uprising of 1857, entitled 'Mutiny at the Margins' (2013-2017). In 2015-2018, he led 'Becoming Coolies', an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project on the origins of Indian overseas labour migration in the Indian Ocean, for which he conducted research in archives throughout the Indian Ocean region. See less