Professor of Indian History
Dr. Gould is Professor of Indian History at the University of Leeds, where he has worked since 2003. Prior to that, he was trained in his BA, MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge and held the Smuts Research Fellowship at the Centre for South Asian Studies. His research and publications have covered a broad range of themes in 19th and 20th Century Indian political, social and cultural history, including two Cambridge University Press books (2004, 2012) on the politics of religious community, a book on mid 20th Century histories of the Indian civil services/bureaucracy (2011), and a cross-border exploration of citizenship in India and Pakistan (2018). As well as working with a filmmaker on the histories of Denotified and Nomadic Tribes in India and helping to digitize their archive with the help of the CSAS, Cambridge, he has acted as editor of Adam Matthew's digitisation of Foreign and Commonwealth Files on South Asia, and on the 'Records of the Raj' collection digitised by Microform. He is currently working on two larger inter-disciplinary projects which have external funding - firstly a history of Indian Anthropology and Sociology, and secondly, 'Tape Letters' which explores the nature of a cassette tape archive, which connected families moving and living between the UK and parts of South Asia from the 1970s to 1990s.