Akhila Yechury

Biography

Akhila Yechury joined St. Andrews in 2014, having previously been a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Officer at LSE IDEAS. She received my PhD from Cambridge in 2012. Her current research project focuses on the practise of French colonialism in India during the 19th and 20th centuries. Here, she explore the different ways in which the French settlements, despite their marginal presence on the fringes of British India provide a unique lens through which we can understand the formation of regional and national identities in colonial and post-colonial India. she was currently participating in a UKIERI funded research network called Narratives of Migration and Exchange. It is an interdisciplinary research project involving colleagues from St. Andrews and Presidency University, Kolkata, which aims to explore the complicated networks of exchange, people, ideas, technologies and capital which mark the colonial legacy in India and Europe.

Research Interest

Akhila Yechury research interests include social, political and cultural histories of South Asia, comparative studies of empires, global and trans-national histories.