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Jonathan Gil Harris

‘I am a Jewish-Kiwi-Anglo-Irish love jihadi, partnered with a Malayali from a Hindu Nair family’

In ‘Masala Shakespeare’, Jonathan Gil Harris explores the relationship between Shakespeare and India’s cultural traditions – and his own masala identity.

Jonathan Gil Harris
· Dec 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm
From book to film, William Dalrymple’s ‘The White Mughal’ disrupts the standard narrative

This historical tale set in Hyderabad, for all its violins, offers yet another story at odds with the official version of India.

Jonathan Gil Harris
· Mar 31, 2016 · 08:30 am
How to be authentically Indian

Recounting the histories of the first foreigners who effectively became ‘Indian’, a scholar wonders what ‘Indianness’ is.

Jonathan Gil Harris
· Jan 10, 2015 · 06:45 am