Amanda Lanzillo
Amanda Lanzillo is currently a Cotsen postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. A historian of labour, technology and Islam in South Asia, she is writing a book on the histories of Muslim artisan communities and their engagement with industrial and technological change in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Muslim-left legacy of an Urdu library in Mumbai
The Awami Idara, rooted in a working-class Muslim neighbourhood, connects the long history of Southasian Muslim labour activism to political movements and events across Mumbai, Southasia and beyond.
Jan 09, 2023

From cholera to coronavirus
How prisons in contemporary India continue to follow the colonial handbook.
Dec 14, 2020

The life and times of a British journal of Islam
How ‘Islamic Review’ became one of the most prominent journals of Islamic thought in the West.
Mar 18, 2019

Before empire
How should we read the Europeans who wrote about Southasia before colonial domination?