Dr Souvik Naha

Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Post-colonial History (Political & International Studies)

email: Souvik.Naha@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Room 613A, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ

Biography

I am a historian of modern South Asia, the British Empire, and decolonisation. My research examines how cultural practices shaped imperial and post-imperial relationships. I use sport, travel, and popular culture as sites through which larger histories of identity and power can be understood. I am especially interested in the spaces where political power intersects with ordinary cultural practices, international relations become popular experience, racial and imperial ideas acquire everyday forms, and leisure becomes a site for negotiating belonging.

My first monograph, shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize, examined the transformation of cricket from a colonial cultural form into an important component of everyday life and regional identity in twentieth-century Calcutta. Bringing together histories of media, spectatorship, gender, consumption, regional politics and urban culture, the book demonstrated how cricket provided a language through which people made sense of social change and constructed new forms of cultural belonging in a decolonising society.

I subsequently expanded this work from urban and cultural history towards the international history of decolonisation. I have investigated sport diplomacy and the changing relationship between Britain and the Indian subcontinent after the end of empire. This research underpins my next book project, which examines how sport became an arena in which sovereignty, diplomatic relationships, racial attitudes, and competing ideas of Commonwealth were negotiated across the post-imperial British world.

My current research extends these concerns through the histories of mobility, race, masculinity, health, and imperial knowledge. Projects on colonial military physical culture and on representations of race and masculinity in sport examine the ways in which sporting practices helped produce, and sometimes destabilise, ideas about identity. Related research on long-distance travel as a form of anti-imperial world-making has also served as a point of entry into wider histories of empire and political culture. Across these projects, I am interested in how mobile bodies, cultural practices, and popular forms of representation can illuminate the workings of empire and the making of postcolonial political worlds.

Research interests

Empire and Decolonisation

I study the social, cultural and political histories of the British Empire and its afterlives, particularly in South Asia. My research examines how imperial relationships were experienced and contested in everyday life, and how decolonisation transformed ideas of sovereignty, citizenship, race and belonging.

Modern South Asia

My work explores the history of modern India and South Asia through popular culture, urban life, media, leisure and political practice. I am particularly interested in how cultural practices illuminate broader processes of social and political change.

Diplomacy, Sovereignty and International History

A major strand of my research examines the relationship between culture and international politics. I investigate how sport and other forms of public culture became arenas for diplomacy, postcolonial statecraft and competing claims to sovereignty, particularly in relations between Britain, India and the wider post-imperial world.

Race, Masculinity and Physical Culture

I research the production and circulation of ideas about race, masculinity and the body across imperial and postcolonial contexts. This includes work on colonial physical culture, the military, and other sporting institutions, as well as the relationship between racial representation, bodily discipline and imperial power.

Mobility and Transnational History

I am interested in mobility as a way of understanding empire and anti-imperialism. My research examines travellers whose journeys created networks of political exchange, comparison and internationalism across Asia and beyond.

Media, Popular Culture and Political Communication

My research investigates how newspapers, broadcasting, advertising, celebrity and popular culture shape political identities and public life. I am particularly interested in the ways media and cultural performance produce ideas about belonging.

Research groups

Economic & Social History

Publications

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2026

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Dutta, Manikarnika (2026) ‘Done the elephants, done the mosquitoes’: international cricket tours and the making of India as a disease zone, c.1890s-1990s. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, (doi: 10.1080/03086534.2026.2693708) (Early Online Publication)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2026) Kohli’s beard!: Sport, self-styling, and the making of contemporary Indian manhood. Journal of Asian Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2026) Revolutions in motion: Indian globe cycling and the challenge to empire, 1920s-30s. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, (doi: 10.1080/00856401.2026.2655868) (Early Online Publication)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2026) ‘Sinister Indian-like half-circle’: tennis, orientalism and the white racial frame in the twentieth-century British sporting press. History, (doi: 10.1111/1468-229x.70119) (Early Online Publication)

2025

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2025) ICC’s Code of Conduct and political interference in cricket: inconsistent stances. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 10(2), pp. 117-120. (doi: 10.20529/ijme.2025.031) (PMID:40561421)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2025) 'The greatest permanent link between this country and the East': cricket diplomacy at the end of the British Empire in South Asia, c.1932-1950. English Historical Review, 140(604-5), pp. 747-776. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceaf022)

2024

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2024) Introduction: Uncanny belongings: affective nationalism, state power, and cricket in the twenty-first century. In: Naha, Souvik (ed.) Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century: Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Series: Ox. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780191982576 (doi: 10.1093/9780191982576.003.0001)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Ed.) (2024) Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century: Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Series: Oxford scholarship online. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780191982576

Fischer-Tine, Harald and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2024) Man-making and world-making on two wheels: Indian ‘globe cyclists’ in the interwar years. Journal of Global History, 19(3), pp. 392-420. (doi: 10.1017/S1740022823000323)

2023

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Malcolm, Dominic (Eds.) (2023) Cricket in the 21st Century. Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 9781032662138

2022

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2022) Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108494588 (doi: 10.1017/9781108781190)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2022) Gender, power, and cricket spectators in Calcutta, 1960s–1990s. Historical Journal, 65(3), pp. 774-796. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X21000406)

2021

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2021) Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket. Sport in Society, 24(8), pp. 1322-1335. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2019.1607012)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Malcolm, Dominic (2021) Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century. Sport in Society, 24(8), pp. 1267-1273. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2021.1932307)

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Eds.) (2021) Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer. Routledge: London.

2020

Majumdar, Boria and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters. Sport in Society, 23(7), pp. 1091-1099. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1776972)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) Hill, Jeffrey. Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. x+ 240. Index and six illustrations. £85, hb. Journal of Sport History, 47(2), pp. 176-178. (doi: 10.1353/sph.2020.0038)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in India. In: Hong, Fan and Zhouxiang, Lu (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 126-134. ISBN 9780367183776 (doi: 10.4324/9780429061202-16)

2019

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2019) Defining moments in the history of soccer. Soccer and Society, 20(7–8), pp. 897-902. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2019.1680489)

2018

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Book Review: Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi & Cricket in India. South Asia Research, 38(3), pp. 350-352. (doi: 10.1177/0262728018798989)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (Eds.) (2018) Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780367586720

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (Eds.) (2018) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780815396338

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (2018) Introduction. In: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik and Mitra, Shakya (eds.) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9780815396338

Mitra, Sarbajit and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. In: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik and Mitra, Shakya (eds.) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 114-128. ISBN 9780815396338

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Sport in emerging markets. In: Hassan, David (ed.) Managing Sport Business: an Introduction. Series: Foundations of sport management. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 115-130. ISBN 9781138291362 (doi: 10.4324/9781315265476-7)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (2018) Introduction: ethical concerns in sport governance. Sport in Society, 21(5), pp. 721-723. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2018.1400783)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Dominic Malcolm, Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. x+212, £105, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-82645-8. Medical History, 62(2), pp. 247-248. (doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.9)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Jagmohan Dalmiya: the Prometheus of modern cricket? In: Bayle, Emmanuel and Clastres, Patrick (eds.) Global Sport Leaders: a Biographical Analysis of International Sport Management. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 395-415. ISBN 9783319767529 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76753-6_15)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Ed.) (2018) Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains. Series: Sport in the global society – contemporary perspectives. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780815396680

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) “The Russian deadpan expert” vs “America’s white hope”: the personal, the national, and the global in the “Cold War” of chess. In: Vonnard, Philippe, Sbetti, Nicola and Quin, Grégory (eds.) Beyond Boycotts: Sport During the Cold War in Europe. Series: Rethinking the Cold War (1). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 179-194. ISBN 9783110526660 (doi: 10.1515/9783110529098-010)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Visually playing politics: use of sports as political critique in newspaper cartoons. In: Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria and Banks, Marcus (eds.) Visual Histories of South Asia. Primus Books, pp. 209-229. ISBN 9789386552440

2017

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) ‘Over the border and the gates’? Global and transnational sport. Sport in Society, 20(10), pp. 1347-1353. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221049)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) With or without cricket? The two lives of the English game in a decolonizing India. Sport in Society, 20(10), pp. 1405-1423. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221074)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) A state without a nation? Historicising India's 'conspiracy' against Bengal and its cricketers. In: Hassan, David and Acton, Ciaran (eds.) Sport and Contested Identities: Contemporary Issues and Debates. Series: Routledge research in sport, culture and society (88). Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 132-151. ISBN 9781138696686 (doi: 10.4324/9781315523651-8)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) Sport, culture, nation: perspectives from Indian football and South Asian cricket, by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, New Delhi, Sage, 2015,240 pp., ₹ 695 (hbk), ISBN 9789351503026. South Asian History and Culture, 8(3), pp. 390-391. (doi: 10.1080/19472498.2017.1350402)[Book Review]

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (2017) FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and governance. Sport in Society, 20(5-6), pp. 547-554. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158475)

Mitra, Sarbajit and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. Sport in Society, 20(5-6), pp. 660-674. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158482)

2016

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2016) Koller, Christian and Fabian Brändle. Goal! A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football. Trans. David S. Bachrach. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. Pp. 350. $29.95, pb. Journal of Sport History, 43(3), pp. 355-356. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.43.3.0355)[Book Review]

2015

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Pataudi: Nawab of cricket. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(11-12), pp. 1509-1511. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1058451)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Agovino, Michael. The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $26.95 hb. Journal of Sport History, 42(2), pp. 236-237. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.42.2.0236)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Cricket, entertainment, glamour industry and promotional culture in India, 1913–2013. Sport in History, 35(3), pp. 464-489. (doi: 10.1080/17460263.2015.1088463)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Steen, Rob, Jed Novick, and Huw Richards, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Football. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx+313. Fifteen figures and one table. £50.00 hb; £17.99 pb. Journal of Sport History, 42(1), pp. 149-150. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.42.1.149)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) The great tamasha: cricket, corruption and the turbulent rise of modern India. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(2), pp. 379-381. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2014.949053)[Book Review]

2014

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost? Jay Scherer and David Rowe (eds), Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost?, Routledge, New York, 2014, ISBN 9 7804 1588 6031 (hbk), 322 pp. A$140.00. Media International Australia, 153(1), pp. 170-171. (doi: 10.1177/1329878x1415300133)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) Of magic and mania: reflections on the fan following of Brazilian football and Pelé in Calcutta. Soccer and Society, 15(5), pp. 804-821. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2014.912021)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) South Africa and the global game: football, apartheid and beyond. Soccer and Society, 15(4), pp. 624-627. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.812327)[Book Review]

2013

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Moving pictures: rickshaw art of Bangladesh. Contemporary South Asia, 21(4), pp. 472-473. (doi: 10.1080/09584935.2013.856593)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Sport controversy, the media and Anglo-Indian cricket relations: the 1977 ‘Vaseline incident’ in retrospect. Sport in Society, 16(10), pp. 1375-1385. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.790900)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Politics in the sport press: interrogating representations of the ‘battle of Eden Gardens’, Calcutta, 1967. Sport in Society, 16(9), pp. 1120-1134. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.790891)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Race, ethnicity and football: persisting debates and emergent issues. Soccer and Society, 14(4), pp. 569-572. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.791574)[Book Review]

2012

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) Adams and Eves at the Eden Gardens: women cricket spectators and the conflict of feminine subjectivity in Calcutta, 1920–1970. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(5), pp. 711-729. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.675204)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) Producing the first Indian cricketing superhero: nationalism, body culture, consumption and the C.K. Nayudu phenomenon. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(4), pp. 562-582. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.658190)

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) The match: football and the BBC, 1937–82. Soccer and Society, 13(1), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2012.646147)[Book Review]

2011

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2011) Football fans around the world: from supporters to fanatics. Soccer and Society, 12(5), pp. 703-706. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2011.604181)[Book Review]

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Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) The match: football and the BBC, 1937–82. Soccer and Society, 13(1), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2012.646147)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Eds.) (2021) Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer. Routledge: London.

Naha, Souvik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (Eds.) (2018) Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780367586720

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Grants

Recent awards include:

Alan Little Bursary, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum (2025) — Principal Investigator, Acing the Empire: Tennis, Race and Masculinity in the Twentieth-Century British World.

Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Research Grant (2024–25) — Principal Investigator, Physical Culture, Race and Masculinity in Britain's Colonial Army, 1858–1939.

University of Glasgow Early Career Mobility Scheme (2024–25).

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate researchers working on modern South Asia, imperial and postcolonial history, decolonisation, sport and politics, mobility and transnational history, nationalism, media and popular culture, and related themes.

Ghosh, Rupsha
The Aftertastes of Empire in Postcolonial Kolkata
Mukhopadhyay, Srija
Papercuts: Identity and Citizenship in Bengal (1939-1971)

Teaching

My teaching brings together British, imperial, South Asian and global history with my research interests in political culture, popular culture and sport. At Glasgow, I teach across undergraduate, Honours and postgraduate programmes and have contributed to both broad survey courses and specialist research-led teaching.

My current and recent teaching at the University of Glasgow includes:

'The British Empire and India, 1757–1947' — Honours/MA Social Sciences

'Sport in the Global Economy' — MSc Global Economy

'Themes in Globalization' — Level 1 core course

I have served as course convenor for 'Britain, 1770–1914' and 'Britain Since 1914', combining teaching with responsibility for course organisation and curriculum delivery.

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

2019 - 2021: Marie Curie Fellowship (IF-MSCA-EU-H2020)
2013 - 2017: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship

Editorial boards

2019 - -: Sport in Society (Editor)
2019 - 2025: Sport in History (Associate Editor)
2013 - -: Soccer & Society (Editor)
2019 - -: Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture (Editorial Board Member)
2024 - -: Journal of Global Sport Studies (Editorial Board Member)

Professional & learned societies

2020 - 2024: Panelist for Lord Aberdare Literary Prize, British Society of Sports History

Selected international presentations

2025: Graduate School of Sport Sciences seminar (Waseda University (Invited Talk))
2024: Physical Edication Center seminar (Xi'an Ziaotong University (Invited Talk))
2024: Physical Education and Sport Academic Organization Annual Joint Assembly and International Symposium (National University of Tainan (Keynote Lecture))
2024: Towards a History of the Bicycle and Cycling in Colonial and Post-colonial India workshop (ETH Zurich (Invited Talk))
2023: 6th International Conference of Sport for Development and Peace (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Keynote Lecture))
2023: Transgressing Boundaries: Migration and Sport (Istanbul Bilgi University)
2023: Taiwan International Conference on Physical Activity and Exercise Science (National Chung Hsing University (Keynote Lecture))
2023: Power Games: Sports and Diplomacy in Global Contexts (Liverpool John Moores University)
2023: History Research Seminar (De Montfort University)
2023: Personal Writing and Textual Practices in the British Empire (University of Leicester)
2022: Sport and Social Justice (Leeds Beckett University (Keynote Panel))
2022: Women in Sports in India: Politics, Nationalism and Media (Loreto College (Keynote Lecture))
2022: British Society of Sports History (De Montfort University)
2022: Sport, Power and Politics (University of Aveiro)
2022: Sports and Societies seminar (Université Libre de Bruxelles (Invited Talk))
2022: Medical Identities in Global History (University of Oxford)
2019: The Olympics and the Asian Century (Zhejiang Normal University (Keynote Lecture))
2019: Rise Up, Take a Knee: Popular Culture and Protest in Decolonising Societies (Utrecht University)
2019: What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Gender, Sexuality, & Eugenics (Oxford Brookes University)
2019: India and Pakistan: The Formative Phase, 1947-c.1960 (University of London)
2019: British Association for South Asian Studies (Durham University)
2018: Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer (University of Oxford)
2017: Golden Games: Sport and Diplomacy in East Asia and beyond (National University of Singapore)
2017: British Society of Sports History (University of Worcester)

Additional information

Public engagement forms an important part of my work. I have contributed historical commentary and analysis to international media and have written for outlets including BBC History Magazine, The Conversation, India Today, Outlook, Desh, Ei Samay and The Nightwatchman. My media appearances and interviews have included outlets in Britain, India, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Italy and the United States.

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