School of History

Dr Chandrika Kaul

MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon) - Lecturer in Modern History

Contact Details

E-mail - ck24@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463306
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914

Teaching and Research Interests

British Imperialism and Print Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Modern South Asia, espeically Indian history and politics; British media and popular culture including contemporary media; Globalisation and transnational Communications.

Main Publications

Books

(co-ed) International Communications & Global News Networks: Historical Perspectives (Hampton Press, 2011) {Details]
(ed) Explorations in Modern Indian History and the Media, Media History special issue, Vol 15, No. 4, November 2009, Routledge.
(ed) Media and the British Empire (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) [Details}
Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India, 1880-1922 (Manchester University Press, 2003) [Details]

Major Articles, Book Chapters

‘You cannot govern by force alone’: W. H. Russell and The Times’ coverage of the Great Rebellion 1857-58,’ in M. Carter & C. Bates (eds.) Global Perspectives on 1857, Mutiny at the Margins series, Sage, New Delhi & London, vol 3, Chapter 3, forthcoming 2012.
' "An Imperial Village": Communications, Media and Globalization in India', in P. Putnis, Chandrika Kaul, & J. Wilke (eds.), International Communications and Global News networks: Historical Perspectives (Hampton press, 2011.)
'Indian Independence, the British Media and Lord Mountbatten', India International Centre, Occasional Publication 26, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 1-19.
Washing Dirty Linen in Public: Imperial Spin Doctoring, the British Press and the Downfall of Lord Curzon, 1905', in Explorations in Modern Indian History and the Media, Media History special issue, Vol 15, No. 4, November 2009, pp. 385-406, Routledge
"At the stroke of the midnight hour": Lord Mountbatten and the British media at Indian Indepedence', in R Holland, S. Williams and T. Barringer (eds.), The Iconography of Independence: 'Freedoms at Midnight' (Routledge, 2009), pp. 29-45.
‘The Empire Press Union and the expansion of imperial air services 1909-1939 with special reference to Australia, New Zealand & India’, with D. Cryle, in Media History, vol. 15, no. 1, Feb 2009, pp. 17-30.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour”: Lord Mountbatten and the British media at Indian Independence’, Round Table special edition, Oct 2008, no. 398, pp. 667-693.
Entries on TJ Bennett, Journalism and Imperialism, Friend of India, & Calcutta Review, in L.Brake & M. Demoor (eds), Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, print and CD, Academia Press, Ghent, British Library & ProQuest.
‘From Empire to Independence: The British Raj in India 1858-1947’, BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/
India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press Union: the diplomacy of news in the politics of empire 1909-46', in C. Kaul (ed), Media and the British Empire, Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
'Monarchical Display & the Politics of Empire: Prince of Wales and India, 1870's-1920's, Twentieth Century British History, vol 17, no. 4, 2006.
'Reporting the Raj: Reflections on Communications, the British Press, and the Indian empire', Contemporary India, Nehru memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, vol 3, no. 3, 2004, pp. 1-18.
Articles on Edwin S Montagu, Secretary of State for India 1917-1922, TJ Bennett, Conservative MP and proprietor of The Times of India, and Sir Richmond Ritchie, Under-secretary of State for India, 1909-1912 in B Harrison (ed) New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford), 2004
Article on ‘Modern India’ in The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003, Vol 2, pp. 594-600 (large folio)
‘Popular Press and Empire: Northcliffe, India and the Daily Mail, 1896-1922’, in Northcliffe’s Legacy: Aspects of the Popular Press 1896-1996, (eds.) Colin Seymour-Ure, Peter Catterall & Adrian Smith (Macmillan, 2000), pp. 45 - 69
‘Imperial Communications, Fleet Street and the Indian Empire, c1850s-1920s’, in A Journalism Reader, (eds.) M. Bromley and T. O'Malley (Routledge, 1997), pp. 58 - 86.
‘Round Table, the British Press and India, 1910-22’, in The Round Table Movement, the Empire/Commonwealth and British Foreign Policy, (eds.) A. Bosco and A. May (Lothian Foundation Press, London, 1997), pp. 343 - 368.
‘The Press’, in Contemporary History Handbook (eds.) B. Brivati, A. Seldon and J. Buxton (Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 298 - 310.
‘Information society and the communications revolution in India’, in The Communications Revolution, (eds.) D. Derman and J. Lotherington (Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, 1996), pp. 118 - 129.
‘Some Perspectives on Gender and the Indian Media’, in Gender and Media, (eds.) K. Ross and D. Derman (Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, 1996), pp. 249 - 265.
‘A New Angle of Vision: The London Press, Governmental Information Management and the Indian Empire, 1900-1922’, Empire, Competition and War: Essays on the Press in the Twentieth Century, Contemporary Record, Special Edition, London, Vol 8, No.2 (Autumn 1994), pp. 213 - 241.
‘England and India: The Ilbert Bill, 1883. A Case Study of the Metropolitan Press’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Sage, New Delhi/London, Vol 30, no.4 (Oct-Dec 1993), pp. 413 - 436.

External Administrative Duties

Editorial Board, Media History (Routledge)
Co-Chair, Media History section, International Association of Media and Communication Research. (IAMCR)
Founding co-editor, 'Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media' (Palgrave-Macmillan)
External Examiner, South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of First Level Modern History and M Litt courses and offers the following Honours courses:

Research Students

I welcome postgraduate and doctoral research students in the fields of modern South Asia and the British popular culture especially the newspaper press.