Bidisha Chutia
Thesis title: Colonial Anatomy : The Phrenological Exchange Between India and Edinburgh
Qualifications
MSc Intellectual History, University of Edinburgh
PhD History, University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate teaching
Introduction to Historiography
Global Connections
Research summary
Provisional title : Colonial Anatomy : The Phrenological Exchange between India and Edinburgh
My research explores how Indian crania were read as specimens of racial inferiority and how phrenological theories were instrumentalised to shape legal and punitive frameworks. I also examine how Indian intellectuals engaged with phrenology.