Robert Travers is a professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Einaudi Center's South Asia Program.

His research focuses on the history of the British empire in India. More broadly, he is interested in encounters between British and South Asian forms of political life. His most recent book, Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793, explores the British colonization and transformation of Mughal Persianate forms of governance in eighteenth-century India. 

Travers teaches courses on the history of British imperialism, the history of South Asia from the Mughal empire to the colonial era, and the history of global interconnections in the early modern period.

Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan

Teaching/Research Interests: British Empire, legacy of Indo-Persian politics in colonial era, history of political and economic ideas, and the history of global interconnections