Rakesh Ankit studied history at Delhi, Oxford and Southampton, and taught at OP Jindal Global University (Sonipat, India), before joining Loughborough in 2018.

Rakesh’s previous research was on the evolution of the Kashmir conflict against the twin backdrops of Decolonisation and the Cold War, and on the Interim Governments in India, 1946-51. His next project looks at the nationalisation of commercial banks in India, 1969.

  • Making and Unmaking of the Modern World Order
  • From Rebellion to Partition: British India, 1857-1947
  • After Empire: South Asia since 1945

Completed Postgraduate Research Students

  • Franziska Karpinski: Between Depression and Zeal: Conceptions of Masculinity in the Wartime Letters of SS Hauptsturmführer Maximilian Guttenbrunner, 1939–1943)

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