Professor Fisher

Michael Fisher holds the Robert S. Danforth Chair in History.  He has published widely on various aspects of the interaction between the peoples and polities of India and the expanding British empire, as they occurred in both India and in Britain. His two most recent books are: A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Subcontinent (co-authored with Shompa Lahiri and Shinder Thandi; London: Greenwood Press, 2007) and Visions of Mughal India: An Anthology of European Travel Writing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007) which was also published in India as Across the Three Seas: Travellers' Tales from Mughal India (New Delhi: Random House, 2007).  Earlier books are: Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600-1858 (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004). Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System (Oxford, 1991; 1998), The Politics of the British Annexation of India (Oxford, 1994), The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England (Oxford, 1996), The Travels of Dean Mahomet edited (University of California, 1997) and A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals (Manohar, 1987; Sangam, 1988). At present, his new boon on the first Indian elected to the British Parliament who was also a putative lunatic is about to be published..

Professor Fisher's C.V. is available at:
http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/mhfisher/

For the book Visions of Mughal India see:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1845113543

For the book Counterflows to Colonialism see:
http://www.orientlongman.com/display.asp?isbn=81-7824-077-7

For the book Travels of Dean Mahomet see:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6908.html

Email: Michael.Fisher@oberlin.edu
Office: Rice 314