杏吧app下载

From 2012-14, Gavin led a British Academy-funded project, ‘ReNewing the Military History of Colonial South Asia’, which sought to integrate cultural and military histories of empire in South Asia, leading to an edited volume, , and an ongoing book series with Routledge, for which Gavin is co-editor.

More recently, Gavin has collaborated with London-based performing arts company Nutkhut on a Heritage Lottery-funded project exploring the partition of India, , which produced an Educational Toolkit, and public exhibition.

Gavin is a committee member of Society for the History of War (SHoW) and was formerly a Councillor for the Army Records Society.

Gavin has been external examiner for undergraduate history degrees at Derby, Kent and Oxford Brookes, and has examined postgraduate degrees at the Universities of Cambridge, King’s College, London, Kingston and Leicester.

Gavin’s research explores the history of the military in colonial South Asia. His work focusses on people, institutions and ideas which shaped the organisation and deployment of military power in, and beyond, ‘British India’. A cultural historian by training, Gavin’s research focusses on the role of indigenous labour in the imperial military, exploring how knowledge, culture and technology informed the uses and limits of colonial violence. Gavin’s work has examined how changing ideas of race impacted colonial recruitment as well as on the history of colonial frontiers. Gavin is also interested in wider histories and historiographies of violence in the colonial and postcolonial world, particularly the history of genocide.

Article

Book section

Edited book

Working paper