Hasan Siddiqui

Assistant Professor | South Asian History
location_on Asian Centre 403A
Research Area

About

Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of encyclopedias, the history of political thought, and the history of the book. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.

Associate Editor, Journal of South Asian Intellectual History.

Convenor, UBC South Asia Research Colloquium, 2023-


Teaching


Publications

“The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 65/5-6, 734-760 (2022).

“Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia,” in The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts, eds. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Book Review: “Empire and Intellectuals in Early Seventeenth Century South Asia.” Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming).


Awards

SSHRC Exchange Grant, 2023-24

Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, 2021-23

Von Holst Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago, 2015-16


Graduate Supervision

I welcome inquiries for graduate study from students interested in any of the following fields: early modern South Asia; intellectual history; the history of political thought.


Hasan Siddiqui

Assistant Professor | South Asian History
location_on Asian Centre 403A
Research Area

About

Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of encyclopedias, the history of political thought, and the history of the book. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.

Associate Editor, Journal of South Asian Intellectual History.

Convenor, UBC South Asia Research Colloquium, 2023-


Teaching


Publications

“The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 65/5-6, 734-760 (2022).

“Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia,” in The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts, eds. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Book Review: “Empire and Intellectuals in Early Seventeenth Century South Asia.” Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming).


Awards

SSHRC Exchange Grant, 2023-24

Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, 2021-23

Von Holst Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago, 2015-16


Graduate Supervision

I welcome inquiries for graduate study from students interested in any of the following fields: early modern South Asia; intellectual history; the history of political thought.


Hasan Siddiqui

Assistant Professor | South Asian History
location_on Asian Centre 403A
Research Area
About keyboard_arrow_down

Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of encyclopedias, the history of political thought, and the history of the book. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.

Associate Editor, Journal of South Asian Intellectual History.

Convenor, UBC South Asia Research Colloquium, 2023-

Teaching keyboard_arrow_down
Publications keyboard_arrow_down

“The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 65/5-6, 734-760 (2022).

“Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia,” in The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts, eds. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Book Review: “Empire and Intellectuals in Early Seventeenth Century South Asia.” Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming).

Awards keyboard_arrow_down

SSHRC Exchange Grant, 2023-24

Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, 2021-23

Von Holst Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago, 2015-16

Graduate Supervision keyboard_arrow_down

I welcome inquiries for graduate study from students interested in any of the following fields: early modern South Asia; intellectual history; the history of political thought.