Professor Ian Talbot

Professor Ian Talbot

History
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
S017 1BJ

Position: Professor of Modern British History. Head of History.

Research interests

I have recently completed a co-authored major study of the 1947 Partition of India and its aftermath for the Cambridge University Press series New Approaches to Asian History. The work follows on from my long term interest in the division of India and the emergence of Pakistan. It builds on the monograph I published in 2006 with Oxford University Press entitled Divided Cities: Partition and Its Aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar 1947-57. This study was funded by a 2 Year Leverhulme Major Research fellowship which was held in conjunction with a Visiting Fellowship in History at Balliol College Oxford during 2003-4.

In addition to my work on the 1947 Partition, I am interested in Pakistan’s post-independence political history. I have published numerous articles on this subject. My main contribution is the major text entitled, Pakistan: A Modern History. This was published in 1999 by Hurst, reissued in an expanded form in 2005 and has now entered its third edition in 2008.

I am currently working on a study of the Punjab region of the subcontinent in the decade which followed independence. I am also contributing to a number of edited volumes as well as acting as the Guest Editor for a special issue on the 1947 Partition by the Journal of Cultural and Social History. This volume brings together some of the papers which were presented at the University of Southampton in July 2007 in an international conference on the theme of ‘The Independence of India and Pakistan: Sixtieth Anniversary Reflections.’

Contact

Room: 2075
Tel: +44 (0)2380 592 242
Email: iat@soton.ac.uk

Publications

  • The Partition of India (with Gurharpal Singh) Cambridge University Press 2009
  • Pakistan: A Modern History (Hurst 2008)
  • Pakistan: A Modern History (revised edition, Hurst, 2005)
  • People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration jointly edited with Shinder Thandi (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India (Oxford University press, 2002)
  • India and Pakistan (Arnold, 2000)
  • Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent jointly edited with Gurharpal Singh (Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • Freedom’s Cry: The Popular Dimension in the Pakistan Movement and Partition Experience in North-West India (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Punjabi Identity: Continuity and Change jointly edited with Gurharpal Singh (Manohar, 1996)
  • Punjab and the Raj1849-1947 (Manohar, 1988)
  • Provincial Politics and the Pakistan Movement: The Growth of the Muslim League in North-West and North-East India 1937-1947 (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Teaching responsibilities for Professor Ian Talbot
Module title Module code Discipline Role
Conflict, Transformation and Resurgence in Asia: 1800 to the present HIST3132 History Course leader
Democracy, Authoritarianism and Collective Violence in Post- Independence India and Pakistan HIST6056 History Course leader
Histories of Britain and Empire HIST6066 History Course leader
Imperialism and Decolonisation HIST6063 History Course leader
The 1947 Partition of India and its Aftermath 1 HIST3107 History Course leader
The 1947 Partition of India and its Aftermath 2 HIST3108 History Course leader

Publications from e–Prints Soton

Talbot, Ian and Singh, Gurharpal (2009) The partition of India, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 224pp. (New Approaches to Asian History)
Talbot, Ian (2009) Pakistan: a modern history, London, UK, Hurst, 460pp.
Talbot, Ian (ed.) (2007) The deadly embrace: religion, violence and politics in India and Pakistan 1947-2002, Karachi, Pakistan, Oxford University Press, 205pp. (The Subcontinent Divided: A New Beginning)
Talbot, Ian (2007) A tale of two cities: the aftermath of partition for Lahore and Amritsar 1947–1957. Modern Asian Studies, 41, (1), 151-185. (doi:10.1017/S0026749X05002337)
Talbot, Ian (2006) Divided Cities: Partition and its Aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar 1947-1957, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 350pp.
Talbot, Ian (2006) The 1947 violence in the Punjab. In, Talbot, Ian (ed.) The Deadly Embrace. Religion, Violence and Politics in India and Pakistan, 1947-2002. Karachi, Pakistan, Oxford University Press, 1-15. (The Subcontinent Divided: A New Beginning).
Talbot, Ian (2005) Pakistan: a modern history, London, UK: London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan: C. Hurst and Company, 450pp.
Talbot, Ian and Thandi, Shinder (eds.) (2004) People on the move: Punjabi colonial and post-colonial migration, Oxford, UK, Karachi, Pakistan, Oxford University Press, 258pp.
Talbot, Ian (2004) Violence, migration and resettlement: the case of Amritsar. In, Talbot, Ian and Thandi, Shinder (eds.) People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration. Oxford, UK, Karachi, Pakistan, Oxford University Press, 78-95.
Talbot, Ian (2003) Pakistan in 2002: democracy, terrorism and brinkmanship. Asian Survey, 43, (1), 198-207. (doi:10.1525/as.2003.43.1.198)
Talbot, Ian (2002) General Pervez Musharraf: saviour or destroyer of Pakistan's democracy? Contemporary South Asia, 11, (3), 311-328. (doi:10.1080/0958493032000057726)