Dr Edward Anderson

Assistant Professor

Department: Humanities

Edward works on the history and politics of modern and contemporary India and Britain. His research focuses on the Indian diaspora, transnational politics, Hindutva and Hindu nationalism, and British histories of migration, ethnicity, and multiculturalism.

Before joining Northumbria University in 2020, Edward was the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge (2015-19). He has also held a postdoctoral position at LMU, Munich, and visiting fellowships at the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, the University of Mumbai, and the London School of Economics. From January 2025, Edward is a Senior Fellow at the South Asia Institute, SOAS, University of London.

At Northumbria, he runs an undergraduate modules on 'Britain's History of Immigration, Multiculturalism and Race' and 'Modern India'. He also leads an MA module on 'Britain's Empires: Imperialism & Resistence in the Modern World'. His teaching has also included the modules: ‘Cultures, Empires and Ideas: Global Histories of Power and Ideology’, ‘Making History’, 'History/Film', and ‘A Disunited Kingdom: The British and Irish Isles since 1689’.

Edward is the Academic Lead for the North East Museums-Northumbria University Cultural PartnershipHe has served as the Programme Leader for History and Politics, and convenor of the History of Activism Group. From 2023 he co-founded and is co-convenor of the North East South Asia Network (NESAN). He is also the External Examiner for the Modern South Asia postgraduate programmes at the School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford.

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Key Publications

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Indian Politics and the Diaspora, Anderson, E. 30 Apr 2024, UK-India relations, London, UK in a Changing Europe
Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism, Anderson, E. 15 Dec 2023
Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Multiculturalism, Anderson, E. 7 Dec 2023
Neo-Hindutva: Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism, Anderson, E., Longkumer, A. 3 Dec 2019
Hindu nationalism and the ‘saffronisation of the public sphere’: an interview with Christophe Jaffrelot, Anderson, E., Jaffrelot, C. 2 Oct 2018, In: Contemporary South Asia
‘Neo-Hindutva’: evolving forms, spaces, and expressions of Hindu nationalism, Anderson, E., Longkumer, A. 2 Oct 2018, In: Contemporary South Asia
‘Smugglers of Truth’: The Indian diaspora, Hindu nationalism, and the Emergency (1975–77), Anderson, E., Clibbens, P. 1 Sep 2018, In: Modern Asian Studies
South Asian Studies in Cambridge and Beyond: An Introduction to the BASAS Annual Conference 2016 Special Issue, Anderson, E. 3 Jul 2017, In: South Asian Studies
‘Neo-Hindutva’: the Asia House M. F. Husain campaign and the mainstreaming of Hindu nationalist rhetoric in Britain, Anderson, E. 2 Jan 2015, In: Contemporary South Asia

Current and Recent Projects

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University Students as Migrants: A New History of Educational Mobility in Western Europe, 1960s–1980s, Laqua, D. (Principal Investigator), Anderson, E. (Co Investigator), Arts & Humanities Research Council, 04/02/25 - 03/02/28, £352,181.00