Oberoi, Harjot

Dr. Harjot Oberoi is a faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies at The University of British Columbia. On completing his BA in history at Delhi University he moved in 1976 to the Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He received two degrees from this institution: a Masters and an M.Phil, both in the area of Modern South Asian history. For his doctoral work he headed to Australia and studied at the Centre for Asian Studies, at the Australian National University.