Jonathan Saha is Professor of South Asian History at Durham University. He completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2010 and was previously Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol.

Jonathan specializes in the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism in Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on British Burma. His 2013 monograph Law, Disorder and the Colonial Statelooked at the history of corruption within the colonial state, exploring how the state was experienced and imagined in everyday life. In it he argued that corruption contributed to the maintenance of British rule and perpetuated racial divisions and gender ideologies. He has recently published his second book, Colonizing Animals, which explores how British imperialism in Myanmar transformed relationships between humans and animals in the colony. It teases out the importance of animals to colonial rule, as well as the impact of imperialism on local ecologies.

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