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Kim Ati Wagner
Born
Denmark
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisThuggee and the 'construction' of crime in early nineteenth century India. (2004)
Doctoral advisorChristopher Bayly
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineSouth Asian history
InstitutionsQueen Mary University of London
Notable works
WebsiteOfficial website

Kim Ati Wagner is a Danish-British historian of colonial India and the British Empire at

Amritsar massacre. A British citizen, Wagner feels an affinity for India.[1]

Early life

Wagner is of Danish origin and has lived in the United Kingdom for over twenty years. He is named after the leading character from Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, set in British India, and was taken to India by his parents when he was a baby. Wagner says he has visited Amritsar many times and feels that India is "in [his] blood".[1]

Career

In 2003, under the supervision of

Queen Mary's in 2012. In 2015 he was granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship working with historian Dane Kennedy at George Washington University in the United States, which he finished in 2018.[2]

Thuggee

His book on thuggees, titled Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India, was published in 2007 and was short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year Award in 2008.[3] He followed that up with a source book on thuggees titled Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee (2009).[4]

Skull of Alum Bheg

In 2014, he was approached by the owners of the Lord Clyde pub in Kent, who wished to dispose of a skull in their possession. An accompanying note revealed the skull to be that of

The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 was completed and published in 2017.[6][7][8][9] Wagner later expressed a wish for the skull to be repatriated back to India to be "buried in a respectful manner".[5]

Amritsar 1919

His book,

Indian rebellion of 1857.[10][11] With the book, Wagner aimed to dispel what he saw as myths about the massacre. The book was highly commended by the journalists Sathnam Sanghera[1] and Trevor Grundy.[12]

Both Grundy and Ferdinand Mount compared Wagner's book on the massacre with The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011) by Nick Lloyd and with Nigel Collett's The Butcher of Amritsar (2005). While Wagner emphasised that it was "brutality" in general that was the "driving principle of the Raj" rather than the personality of individuals,[13] Mount argued that Wagner had underplayed the personality of General Dyer.[13]

Selected publications

Books

Articles

References

  1. ^ a b c Roy, Amit (20 April 2019). "The many myths surrounding Jallianwala Bagh". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Professor Kim A. Wagner - School of History". www.qmul.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  3. ISBN 9780230547179. Archived
    from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  4. S2CID 163149750
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  5. ^ a b Biswas, Soutik (5 April 2018). "The Indian mutineer's skull found in a UK pub". BBC News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  6. S2CID 165809495
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  7. S2CID 150442558
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  8. ^ Lord Clyde Archived 7 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Dover Kent Archives, 25 July 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  9. S2CID 198664160
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  10. ISSN 0306-3968
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  11. ^ Agarwal, Kritika (9 April 2019). "Reexamining Amritsar | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  12. ^ Grundy, Trevor (21 March 2019). "The British Empire's most shameful day". www.politicsweb.co.za. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  13. ^
    ISSN 0260-9592. Archived
    from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.

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