Looking Back, Informing the Future: the 1947 Partition of British India

The Partition Team

The 1947 Partition of British India project at the Mittal Institute engages a team of interdisciplinary experts from various schools at Harvard University, peer universities, and institutions throughout South Asia to look at the event through a multitude of lenses:

Jennifer Leaning, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Faculty Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Karim R. Lakhani, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School

Prashant Bharadwaj, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California San Diego

Meena Hewett, Executive Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Shubhangi Bhadada, Mittal Institute Fellow and Project Manager, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Tiara Bhatacharya, Research Associate, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Michael Menietti, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Innovation Science, Harvard University

Ruihan Wang, Data Science Research Associate, Laboratory for Innovation Science, Harvard University

Diane Athaide, Research Associate, Harvard Graduate School of Design

In-Region Team

Mariam Chughtai, Assistant Professor, LUMS School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Sanjay Kumar, India Country Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, USA/India

Sajjad Khan, Researcher, Pakistan

Ali Raza, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Franziska Roy, Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany

Nadhra S.N. Khan, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Navsharan Singh, Senior Program Officer, International Development Research Centre, India

Omar Rahman, Professor of Public Health & Demography, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh 

Ornob Alam, Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh

Rimple Mehta, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia

Rita Yusuf, Professor & Dean, School of Life Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh

Uma Chakravarti, Professor Emeritus of History, Miranda College, Delhi University, India

Yaqoob Bangash, Director, Centre for Governance and Policy, Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Zehra Jumabhoy, Associate Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, England

Srikant Singh, Freelance Researcher, India

Mihir Bhatt, Director, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India

Advisory Board

Ian Talbot, Professor of Modern British History, University of Southampton

Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

Yasmin Khan, Associate Professor of History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

Urvashi Butalia, Writer and Publisher