Joya Chatterji

Joya Chatterji FBA is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in modern South Asian history and was the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies for ten years.

Books in order of publication:


Bengal divided. Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 – 1995

The Spoils of Partition. Bengal and India 1947-1967 – 2007

Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (edited by Joya Chatterji and David Washbrook: – 2013

The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration (by Claire Alexander, Joya Chatterji and Annu Jalais: – 2016

Partition’s Legacies (with an Introduction by David Washbrook:  – 2019

Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century – 2023