Rakesh Ankit studied history at Delhi, Oxford and Southampton, and taught at OP Jindal Global University (Sonipat, India), before joining Loughborough in 2018.
Rakesh’s previous research was on the evolution of the Kashmir conflict against the twin backdrops of Decolonisation and the Cold War, and on the Interim Governments in India, 1946-51. His next project looks at the nationalisation of commercial banks in India, 1969.
- Making and Unmaking of the Modern World Order
- From Rebellion to Partition: British India, 1857-1947
- After Empire: South Asia since 1945
Completed Postgraduate Research Students
- Franziska Karpinski: Between Depression and Zeal: Conceptions of Masculinity in the Wartime Letters of SS Hauptsturmführer Maximilian Guttenbrunner, 1939–1943)
Books
- India in the Interregnum: Interim Government, September 1946-August 1947 (OUP, 2019)
- The Kashmir Conflict: From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66 (Routledge, 2016)
Book Chapters
- ‘India-USSR, 1946-49: A False Start?’ in Madhavan K. Palat (edited) India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2017), pp. 160-188
- ‘The RSS’ Village Republic’, in Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr (eds.) India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 47-60.
Recent Articles
- 'Looking for Dr B. R. Ambedkar in The Times of India, December 1956–April 1990', History and Sociology of South Asia, https://doi.org/10.1177/22308075231164672
- Dewan Chaman Lall: From Trade Unions to the Indian Union, 1946–1966’, Studies in Indian Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230231203771
- ‘De-linking ‘the two rupees’: Devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonised subcontinent, September 1949-February 1951’, Modern Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X22000336
- ‘In Trust for the Three Nations? The India Office Library & Records Dispute, 1947-72’, Contemporary British History, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2022.2110471