Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of encyclopedias and genealogical registers and the history of political thought. 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-

“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, no. 5–6 (2022): 734–760.

“Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial India.” In The Cambridge History of Rights, vol. 4, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Daniel Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts, 463–480. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

“The Reins of Exaltation: The Aḥrārī Khwājagān in the Mughal Empire.” In The New Mughal Historiography, edited by Manan Ahmed. Delhi: Primus, in press.

“Empire and Intellectuals in Early Seventeenth Century South Asia.” Journal of Asian Studies 81/4 (November 2022), 773-5.

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.