Taylor C. Sherman

Short Biography

Dr Taylor C. Sherman began her career teaching Extra-European history at the University of Cambridge. She is currently a Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her forthcoming book, State Violence and Punishment in India, 1919–1956, based on her doctoral research, is both a study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and a cultural history of the ways in which Indians imbued practices of punishment with their own meaning, and used state violence for their own political campaigns. Her present project concerns the everyday state in postcolonial India. It is a study of democracy, development and dissent in the first decade after independence in Hyderabad (Deccan).