Peter Robb

Peter Robb, FRAS, FRHistS, is Professor Emeritus at SOAS University of London. His first degrees were at the Victoria University of Wellington and his doctorate was from London. He has written or edited numerous books on South Asia, most recently Useful Friendship (2014); Ideas Matter (2020); and Agrarian Development in a Colonial Society: The British and Bihar (2021). He is currently working on a fourth book to draw on the voluminous diaries of Richard Blechynden. It is to be called On Time:...See more

Peter Robb, FRAS, FRHistS, is Professor Emeritus at SOAS University of London. His first degrees were at the Victoria University of Wellington and his doctorate was from London. He has written or edited numerous books on South Asia, most recently Useful Friendship (2014); Ideas Matter (2020); and Agrarian Development in a Colonial Society: The British and Bihar (2021). He is currently working on a fourth book to draw on the voluminous diaries of Richard Blechynden. It is to be called On Time: European Encounters with India in Early Calcutta. See less