Yasmin Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasmin Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7711-3340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unsettled
Britain has long been a home for refugees. Every decade of the twentieth century saw waves of displaced people from many different warzones, and from distinctive scenes of civil strife, arriving on British shores. Belgians fled the Germans during the First World War. In the 1930s and 1940s, Basque children escaped the Spanish Civil War, Jews came to Britain from Nazi-occupied Europe, and many Poles arrived and stayed on in Britain after 1945. Hun…
The role of tacit knowledge in communication and decision-making during emerging public health incidents
Women and War in the British Empire
This provocation stimulates reflection on the Eurocentricity of Second World War histories and reflects on how new work can extend the boundaries of the subjects of the war. It argues that women in the British Empire were affected by the war in ways which have, thus far, been under-appreciated
Public health emergency preparedness
This framework describes the complexity of the system yet moves beyond description to use tenets of complexity to support building resilience. This applied public health framework for local/regional public health agencies is empirically-derived and theoretically-informed and represents a complex adaptive systems approach to upstream readiness for PHEP
Comparing Twitter data to routine data sources in public health surveillance for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games
Postcolonial History as War History in the Twentieth Century
How we think about warfare in the past is intrinsically linked to our political commitments today. Wars have always swept up civilians in their terrors and been linked to famine, exploitation, and misogyny. They have often enhanced relative poverty and, in the past, consolidated empire by suppressing rebellion. Reflecting on Eric Hobsbawm’s engagement with empire and warfare, this chapter considers the ways in which narratives of the two world wa…
Assessing health impacts of the December 2013 Ice storm in Ontario, Canada
This suggests that the main health impact of the 2013 Ice Storm was an increase in ED visits for injuries, while other increases could have been due to severe weather across Ontario at that time. This study is one of the first to use a population-level database and regression modeling of emergency visit codes to identify acute impacts resulting from ice storms
Venkat Dhulipala. Creating a New Medina
Journal Article Venkat Dhulipala. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India. Get access Venkat Dhulipala. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015, Pp. xxii, 530. $120.00. Yasmin Khan Yasmin Khan University of Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the political economy of industrial war, the social prac…
Upending the Telescope
In September 2010 at a conference at the British Library in London, ‘Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain 1870–1950’, the historical significance of the South Asian presence in Britain was made clear in no uncertain terms. Building on Rozina Visram’s seminal text, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (2002), the conference showed conclusively the extensive reach of Indians in British life before the migration watershed of 1945.1 The myt…
Sex in an Imperial War Zone
This article suggests how the waging of war in an imperial setting may have reshaped military and civilian relations in India from 1939-45. The number of troops stationed in India had repercussions for society and local politics. The article investigates widespread prostitution as one aspect of the gendered wartime economy. Indian prostitution was closely linked to militarization and to the effects of the 1943 Bengal famine. The article also argu…
Performing Peace
The consolidation of the Nehruvian state's sovereignty after Independence is traced here as a contingent event which was tightly linked to the impact of Gandhi's assassination and the mourning rituals which followed his death in 1948. The Congress was able to use the funeral, mortuary rituals and distribution of Gandhi's ashes to assert the power of the state and to stake the Congress Party's right to sovereignty. This intersected with localized …
The Ending of an Empire
The ritual and rhetoric of Independence Day celebrations in New Delhi and Karachi masked confusion about the kinds of state coming into existence and complex new questions about nationality and citizenship that would take a long time to resolve
The Independence of India and Pakistan
This was perhaps the largest gathering of historians, anthropologists, literature scholars and writers interested in the Partition of the Indian subcontinent ever held in the UK. Despite its title the conference, organized by Professor Ian Talbot of Southampton, was centred on traumatic experiences of Partition rather than triumphant experiences of Independence. It was a testament to the seriousness with which the subject is finally being treated…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Focus Questions Why have historians found it difficult to integrate the history of Partition’s extraordinary violence into the political narrative? In Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame , about Pakistan, he writes, ‘Perhaps the place was just insufficiently imagined . . .’ What does he mean by this and would you agree with his analysis? Author Recommends * Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose , Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (Routledge:…
Asking New Questions about the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
Fierce historical controversy has raged over the causes of the partition of India, ever since Pakistan was created in 1947. This article briefly analyses these debates, but here the major focus is upon the consequences of partition and the new wave of historiography which has emerged in recent years, especially since the fiftieth anniversary of partition in 1997. These new histories have centred upon the experience of ordinary people, and have em…
The arrival impact of Partition refugees in Uttar Pradesh, 1947–52
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is not immediately associated with the Partition of 1947. Yet western districts of the state were afflicted by immigration and emigration, violence and disorder. This had wider social and economic ramifications. This paper focuses on reactions to incoming refugees and responses to the departure of local Muslims in Uttar Pradesh. The reactions of the state government, Congress Party and Hindu right to the Partitio…
Performing Peace
The consolidation of the Nehruvian state's sovereignty after Independence is traced here as a contingent event which was tightly linked to the impact of Gandhi's assassination and the mourning rituals which followed his death in 1948. The Congress was able to use the funeral, mortuary rituals and distribution of Gandhi's ashes to assert the power of the state and to stake the Congress Party's right to sovereignty. This intersected with localized …
The arrival impact of Partition refugees in Uttar Pradesh, 1947–52
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is not immediately associated with the Partition of 1947. Yet western districts of the state were afflicted by immigration and emigration, violence and disorder. This had wider social and economic ramifications. This paper focuses on reactions to incoming refugees and responses to the departure of local Muslims in Uttar Pradesh. The reactions of the state government, Congress Party and Hindu right to the Partitio…
The Ending of an Empire
The ritual and rhetoric of Independence Day celebrations in New Delhi and Karachi masked confusion about the kinds of state coming into existence and complex new questions about nationality and citizenship that would take a long time to resolve
The arrival impact of Partition refugees in Uttar Pradesh, 1947–52
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is not immediately associated with the Partition of 1947. Yet western districts of the state were afflicted by immigration and emigration, violence and disorder. This had wider social and economic ramifications. This paper focuses on reactions to incoming refugees and responses to the departure of local Muslims in Uttar Pradesh. The reactions of the state government, Congress Party and Hindu right to the Partitio…
Asking New Questions about the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
Fierce historical controversy has raged over the causes of the partition of India, ever since Pakistan was created in 1947. This article briefly analyses these debates, but here the major focus is upon the consequences of partition and the new wave of historiography which has emerged in recent years, especially since the fiftieth anniversary of partition in 1997. These new histories have centred upon the experience of ordinary people, and have em…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Focus Questions Why have historians found it difficult to integrate the history of Partition’s extraordinary violence into the political narrative? In Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame , about Pakistan, he writes, ‘Perhaps the place was just insufficiently imagined . . .’ What does he mean by this and would you agree with his analysis? Author Recommends * Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose , Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (Routledge:…
The Ending of an Empire
The ritual and rhetoric of Independence Day celebrations in New Delhi and Karachi masked confusion about the kinds of state coming into existence and complex new questions about nationality and citizenship that would take a long time to resolve
The Independence of India and Pakistan
This was perhaps the largest gathering of historians, anthropologists, literature scholars and writers interested in the Partition of the Indian subcontinent ever held in the UK. Despite its title the conference, organized by Professor Ian Talbot of Southampton, was centred on traumatic experiences of Partition rather than triumphant experiences of Independence. It was a testament to the seriousness with which the subject is finally being treated…
Performing Peace
The consolidation of the Nehruvian state's sovereignty after Independence is traced here as a contingent event which was tightly linked to the impact of Gandhi's assassination and the mourning rituals which followed his death in 1948. The Congress was able to use the funeral, mortuary rituals and distribution of Gandhi's ashes to assert the power of the state and to stake the Congress Party's right to sovereignty. This intersected with localized …
Sex in an Imperial War Zone
This article suggests how the waging of war in an imperial setting may have reshaped military and civilian relations in India from 1939-45. The number of troops stationed in India had repercussions for society and local politics. The article investigates widespread prostitution as one aspect of the gendered wartime economy. Indian prostitution was closely linked to militarization and to the effects of the 1943 Bengal famine. The article also argu…
Upending the Telescope
In September 2010 at a conference at the British Library in London, ‘Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain 1870–1950’, the historical significance of the South Asian presence in Britain was made clear in no uncertain terms. Building on Rozina Visram’s seminal text, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (2002), the conference showed conclusively the extensive reach of Indians in British life before the migration watershed of 1945.1 The myt…
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the political economy of industrial war, the social prac…
Assessing health impacts of the December 2013 Ice storm in Ontario, Canada
This suggests that the main health impact of the 2013 Ice Storm was an increase in ED visits for injuries, while other increases could have been due to severe weather across Ontario at that time. This study is one of the first to use a population-level database and regression modeling of emergency visit codes to identify acute impacts resulting from ice storms
Venkat Dhulipala. Creating a New Medina
Journal Article Venkat Dhulipala. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India. Get access Venkat Dhulipala. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015, Pp. xxii, 530. $120.00. Yasmin Khan Yasmin Khan University of Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Postcolonial History as War History in the Twentieth Century
How we think about warfare in the past is intrinsically linked to our political commitments today. Wars have always swept up civilians in their terrors and been linked to famine, exploitation, and misogyny. They have often enhanced relative poverty and, in the past, consolidated empire by suppressing rebellion. Reflecting on Eric Hobsbawm’s engagement with empire and warfare, this chapter considers the ways in which narratives of the two world wa…
Public health emergency preparedness
This framework describes the complexity of the system yet moves beyond description to use tenets of complexity to support building resilience. This applied public health framework for local/regional public health agencies is empirically-derived and theoretically-informed and represents a complex adaptive systems approach to upstream readiness for PHEP
Comparing Twitter data to routine data sources in public health surveillance for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games
The role of tacit knowledge in communication and decision-making during emerging public health incidents
Women and War in the British Empire
This provocation stimulates reflection on the Eurocentricity of Second World War histories and reflects on how new work can extend the boundaries of the subjects of the war. It argues that women in the British Empire were affected by the war in ways which have, thus far, been under-appreciated
Unsettled
Britain has long been a home for refugees. Every decade of the twentieth century saw waves of displaced people from many different warzones, and from distinctive scenes of civil strife, arriving on British shores. Belgians fled the Germans during the First World War. In the 1930s and 1940s, Basque children escaped the Spanish Civil War, Jews came to Britain from Nazi-occupied Europe, and many Poles arrived and stayed on in Britain after 1945. Hun…
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