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Professor Francesca Orsini FBA

Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31564.php

Current post

Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, SOAS, University of London

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Xinjiang Rong FBA

History of Central Asia; Iranians (Sogodian, Khotantese) in China; cultural exchanges between China and the West from Han to Tang dynasties; Chinese history during the Sui, Tang dynasty and Five Dynasties Period, Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts

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Professor David Mosse FBA

Historical anthropology of religion, social-political systems and livelihoods, especially with reference to Indian caste inequality and activism, religious pluralism (Hindu and Christian) and common property resources; the anthropology of knowledge, institutions and international development.

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Mr Michael C A Macdonald FBA

Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads

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