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Qualifications
B Arts/B Asian Studies (Hons) (ANU), PhD (ANU, J.G. Crawford Prize, Ann Bates Prize)
Biography
Amrita is a regular public commentator on Malaysian politics, and her work appears on New Mandala, East Asia Forum, Inside Story and The Conversation.
She is working on a book on the allure of the Caliphate in Southeast Asia with a focus on a remote uprising in Malaya in 1928, and some of her work on this topic has been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, The Muslim World, and an edited volume published by the British Academy.
Research interests
Amrita is a Historian of Southeast Asia, with a primary interest in Islam, shifting identities and identity conflict in colonial Malaya and contemporary Malaysia.
Expertise Areas
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- Studies of Asian Society
- Asian History
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Projects
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Innovation Connections Project - Evaluating Cultural Infusion's Ancestry Atlas
Cribb, R., Farrelly, N. & Malhi, A.
Cultural Infusion (Int) Pty Ltd
22/04/19 → 1/12/20
Project: Research
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Coercing Mobility: Territory and Displacement in the Politics of Southeast Asian Muslim Movements
Gedacht, J. & Malhi, A., 2021, In: Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History. 45, 3, p. 330-344Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Race, Space, and the Malayan Emergency: Expelling Malay Muslim Communism and Reconstituting Malaya's Racial State, 1945-1954
Malhi, A., 2021, In: Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History. 45, 3, p. 435-459Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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“Social Cohesion, Racial Campaigning and the Collapse of Pakatan Harapan: Malaysia’s National Harmony Bills and Harmony Commission.� ANU: Supporting the Rules-Based Order in Southeast Asia Project.
Malhi, A., 2020Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Evaluating Cultural Infusion’s Ancestry Atlas
Malhi, A., 2020Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Bordering Malaya's 'Benighted Lands': Frontiers of Race and Colonialism on the Malay Peninsula, 1887-1902
Malhi, A., 2018, Challenging Cosmopolitanism Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia. Gedacht, J& Feener, R.M (ed.). 1 ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 203-224Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter