Bio

Deepa Nair is a historian of Modern South Asia. Her research revolves around politics, religion, education, and identity formation in modern India, particularly the effect of ethno-religious nationalism on minorities and nation-building in secular India. Before joining CMU-Q, she taught at the University of Central Florida and Appalachian State University in North Carolina. Nair’s teaching interests include the history and culture of South Asia; imperialism, decolonization, and nationalism in South Asia; politics, religion, and gender in contemporary South Asia; legacies of the British raj– including Partition and rise of ethno-religious nationalism; globalization, migration, and South Asian diaspora; Indian historiography and transnational history. She is working on the first edition of An Anthology of South Asia (Cognella /Routledge) and her monograph on education, state formation, and identity politics in South Asia.