Yasmin Khan
Historian and novelist
Yasmin Khan is a British historian and novelist who teaches at Oxford. She wrote The Great Partition and won the Gladstone Prize for history.
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Born in the United Kingdom
About Yasmin Khan
Yasmin Khan is a British historian and novelist. She holds a professorship in modern history at Oxford and is a Fellow of Kellogg College. Her work centers on the British Empire, the end of colonial rule in South Asia, and what came after empire. Besides The Great Partition, she has written The Raj at War, which looks at India's experience of the Second World War and was also published in the US as India at War. She has also written two novels, Edgware Road and Overland. The Royal Historical Society awarded her its Gladstone Prize for history. She has also been longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the PEN Hesell-Tiltman Prize.