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Leigh Denault studies modern South Asian history ca. 1790-1947. Her interests include colonial law, the politics of social reform, social and economic history of the household and family, gender in history, literature, politics and popular culture, and Hindi and Urdu language studies. While she specializes in South Asian history, she has also conducted research on topics relevant to East Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. After graduating from Mt. Holyoke College in 2001, she spent a year as a research assistant in the Social History Department of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She and her husband, Robert Watson, moved to the UK in 2004 and are both PhD candidates at Cambridge.

Photos, from left:

Lal qila at Agra; blue pottery karkhana in Jaipur; Assi Ghat, Varanasi; the entrance to the Orchha palace complex.

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