Callie Wilkinson is a cultural historian of the British empire with a particular interest in the East India Company. Her forthcoming book, Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule, examines the insidious tactics that the EIC used to establish influence at Indian royal courts. This book will be out with Cambridge University Press in 2023. Preliminary findings from this project appeared in Modern Asian Studies in 2019.
Currently, Callie Wilkinson is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her recent research refocuses attention on the Company’s military, which comprised some of the largest standing armies of the time. For more details on her ongoing work, check out the Project page.
Before moving to Germany, Callie completed her PhD at Cambridge and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Warwick. Since October 2021, she has been based at Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at LMU Munich.
Publications
‘“Pernicious Publicity”: The East India Company, the Military, and the Freedom of the Press, 1818-1823‘, Journal of British Studies 61, no. 4 (2022): 915-948.
‘Scandal and Secrecy in the History of the Nineteenth-Century British Empire’, The Historical Journal 65, no. 2 (2022): 545-569.
‘Script, Print, and the Public/Private Divide: Sir David Ochterlony’s Dying Words’, in Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century, eds. Caroline Archer and Malcolm Dick(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020).
‘Weak Ties in a Tangled Web? Relationships between the Political Residents of the English East India Company and their Munshis, 1798-1818’, Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 5 (2019): 1574-1612.
‘The History of Violence and the British Empire in India’, Le XIXe siècle vu d’ailleurs, Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle 56, no. 1 (2018): 129-131.
‘The East India College Debate and the Fashioning of Imperial Officials, 1806-1857’, The Historical Journal 60, no. 4 (2017): 943-969.
