Amrita Malhi

Dr Amrita Malhi is a Visiting Fellow in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Her research interests include histories and politics in Malaya and Malaysia, Islamist responses to state-led development projects, and the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies and Muslim World, along with edited volumes on Malaysia and Malaya’s Ottoman connections. Amrita is working on a book manuscript on the allure of the Caliphate in an anti-colonial uprising in 1920s Malaya.