Abhilash Medhi is a historian of modern South Asia, with interest in the comparative histories of 19th and 20th century colonialism. His work focuses on colonial governance and capitalist expansion in the two extremities of the Indian subcontinent, the Indo-Afghan borderlands and northeast India. Medhi undertook policy research in Afghanistan in a previous avatar. In the classroom, as in his research, he brings a political-economic perspective to the reading of social and cultural histories.
Areas of Expertise
Capitalism, development, borderlands, colonial ethnography, historiography
Education
- Ph.D., A.M., Brown University
- M.S., The London School of Economics and Political Science
- B.S., National Institute of Technology
