CSD seminar 'Diasporic Hindutva and Contested Communities'

Dr Edward Anderson is an Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University. From 2025 to 2027 he is also a Senior Fellow at SOAS, University of London. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. He has also been a Teaching Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Trinity College. Dr Anderson’s research relates to Indian politics and contemporary history, diasporas and migration, transnational networks, multiculturalism, and the politics of the Indian diaspora. In 2023/24 he published Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism (Penguin/Hurst/Oxford University Press).