Angma Jhala

Angma Jhala is a historian of modern South Asia. Her scholarship focuses on several different areas: histories of the environment, indigenous borderlands, material culture, and women, law and politics. She is the author of three books: An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma and Bangladesh (Oxford University Press, 2019), Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (2011) and Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India (2008). She has published her research in leading journals and edited volumes in South Asian studies, including the Indian Economic and Social History Review, Modern Asian Studies, South Asian Studies and South Asian History and Culture, among others. She is currently embarking upon a new research project addressing hydropower, international development and Cold War geopolitics in mid-twentieth century South Asia.

Professor Jhala has also served as a consultant to the Museum of Fine Art Houston's 2018 exhibition Peacock in the Desert: the Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India which subsequently travelled to the Seattle Art Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and edited a collection of essays which accompanied the exhibition.