Prof Chandrika Kaul

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3306

Email

ck24@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

By appointment. On Research Leave (Semester 1).

 

Research areas

I am a Modern British, Imperial and Media Historian. My multidisciplinary research and teaching encompasses the 19th and 20th centuries, including contemporary history. My areas of interest and publications cover a wide range of topics including modern communications; British media and politics; the British Monarchy; the British popular press; the BBC; Imperial propaganda; the First and Second World Wars; Modern South Asia, especially modern India; India under the British Raj; Indian media and politics; M.K. Gandhi; and Decolonisation. I have also published research into Portuguese media and empire, Maltese history, and the Empire and Commonwealth Press Union.

PhD supervision

• Caroline McWilliams

Selected publications

• M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: New Perspectives

  Kaul, C. (ed.), 2020, Palgrave Macmillan. 168 p. (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media; vol. 1)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• “The meek ass between two burdens?” the BBC and India during the second world war

  Kaul, C., 2020, Allied Communication to the Public during the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks. Eliot, S. & Wiggam, M. (eds.). London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 203-222

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Gallipoli, media and commemorations during 2015 select perspectives

  Kaul, C., 2018, In: Media History. 24, 1, p. 115-141 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India c. 1880-1922

  Kaul, C., 2018, New Indian Edition ed. New Delhi: Viva Books Private Ltd. 320 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Media and the Portuguese empire

  Garcia, J. L. (ed.), Kaul, C. (ed.), Subtil, F. (ed.) & Santos, A. (ed.), 2017, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 355 p. (Palgrave studies in the history of the media)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Researching empire and periodicals

  Kaul, C., 2017, Researching the Nineteenth Century Periodical Press: Case Studies. Easley, A., King, A. & Morton, J. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Need Fulfilment: Society and Community in the Age of Digital Communication: The Indian example

  Kaul, C., 2016, What Society Needs from Media in the Age of Digital Communication. Picard, R. G. (ed.). Media XXI

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• News of the Imperial World: Popular Print Culture, the News of the World and India in the late Nineteenth Century

  Kaul, C., 2015, News of the World and the British Press 1843-2011. Brake, L., Kaul, C. & Tuner, M. W. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 100-116

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Local and the Global: Malta, Media and Empire in the Twentieth century

  Kaul, C., Nov 2015, In: Journal of Maltese History. 4, 2, p. 2-15

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The News of the World and the British Press, 1843-2011: Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor

  Kaul, C. (ed.), Brake, L. (ed.) & Turner, M. (ed.), 2015, Palgrave Macmillan. 328 p. (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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