Who Is Chandrika Kaul?
Chandrika Kaul Kaul is a Reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews.
She seems to be around 40 to 50 years old, judging from her appearance. This is just an assumption as her real age and date of birth have not been disclosed on the web.
As written on Kaul's LinkedIn, she is a part of the department of modern history at the University of St Andrews.
She introduces herself as a modern British media and imperial historian. Her multidisciplinary research and teaching encompass the 19th and 20th centuries, including contemporary history.
Her researches are not only limited to Indian and British studies as she has also published research into Maltese history, Portuguese media and empire, and the Empire and Commonwealth Press Union.
Dr. Chandrika Kaul was on BBC R4's 'In Our Time' discussing the poet Rabindranath Tagore in 2015.
Chandrika Kaul Achievements
Chandrika Kaul is the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for well-established, distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research.
The talented figure also serves as a founding co-editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. What's more, her most recently edited book is M. K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: New Perspectives, released in 2020.
Likewise, Kaul's areas of interest and publications cover a wide range of topics, including the British Monarchy, modern communications; British media and politics; Imperial propaganda; the British popular press; the BBC. The list does not stop here as her studies also involve the First and Second World Wars, Modern South Asia, especially modern India; India under the British Raj; M.K. Gandhi; Indian media and politics; and Decolonisation.
