faculty

Chandra Mallampalli, Ph.D.

Fletcher Jones Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History.
(805) 565-6139

Office Location

Deane Hall 205

Office Available

Only by appointment. 

Specialization(s)

Modern South Asia

Research Interests

Dr. Mallampalli has published a new book entitled South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim, with Oxford University Press, 2023.

Biography/Details

Chandra Mallampalli earned his doctorate in South Asian History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Prior to earning his Ph.D. he studied theology and worked as a journalist in South Asia. He is the  author of four books and many scholarly articles, which address the intersection of religion, law and society in colonial India.  At Westmont, Professor Mallampalli teaches courses in World History, Modern South Asia, British Empire, and comparative Asian history. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University and is married to Beverly Chen, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist.

Website

https://www.westmont.edu/research/faculty-library

Recent Articles/ Book Chapters

"A Fondness for Military Display: Conquest and Intrigue in South India during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-40," Journal of Asian StudiesVol. 77, No.1 (Feb. 2018), 139-159.

"Slaying Men with Faces of Women: Liberalism and patronage in the trial of a South Indian maulvi, 1839-40," Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3, May 2017, 825-66.

"The Orientalist Framework of Religious Conversion in India," in David Maxwell, Joel Cabrita (eds.), Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian faith (Leiden:  E.J. Brill, 2017), 162-88.

Books

South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim (Oxford University Press, 2023).

A Muslim Conspiracy in British India? Politics and Paranoia in the Early Nineteenth Century Deccan. (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India (Routledge Curzon, 2004).

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