Cynthia Talbot

Cynthia Talbot is a social and cultural historian whose research has focused on both south and north India. After studying temples and brahmins for years, in recent decades her interests have shifted to heroic histories and warrior culture. Her publications include Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (Oxford University Press) Knowing India: Colonial and Modern Constructions of the Past (Yoda Press) and The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and...See more

Cynthia Talbot is a social and cultural historian whose research has focused on both south and north India. After studying temples and brahmins for years, in recent decades her interests have shifted to heroic histories and warrior culture. Her publications include Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (Oxford University Press) Knowing India: Colonial and Modern Constructions of the Past (Yoda Press) and The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 (Cambridge University Press), which received the Association for Asian Studies A.K. Coomaraswamy book award in 2018. See less