Biography
Leah Renold is a historian of South Asia who offers courses on the History of India and Gandhi and Nonviolence. She received her doctorate in Modern South Asian History from the University of Texas at Austin (1999). In 2005 Oxford University Press published her first book, A Hindu Education: The Early Years of Banaras Hindu University, which explores the complex inter-relationships between Hindu traditions, Hindu-Muslim relations, education, and colonial policy during the Indian independence movement. Dr. Renold has lived in India for over seven years and visits India regularly.
Research Interests
Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi and non-violent resistance, environmental and religious history, the Ganges River, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Teaching Interests
History of India, History and Culture of Modern India, Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolence, Peace and Nonviolent Movements