Yasmin Khan is Associate Professor of History; Fellow of Kellogg College at Oxford University. She studied history as an undergraduate at St. Peter's, College Oxford and quickly developed a passion for the history of Asia. Her DPhil, also from Oxford, was in the History of the British Empire. She has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book,The Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan, won the Gladstone Prize for History from the Royal Historical Society.She's written for the New Statesman and Guardian and appeared on BBC radio and television, most recently on 'In Our Time' discussing the British radical, Annie Besant. Other publications include: 'Gandhi's World' in J.M. Brown, ed.,The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge University Press, 2011).Yasmin is an editor of History Workshop Journal and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust. Her next book is about India during the Second World war and will be published by The Bodley Head in 2013.
Great-great-granddaughter of Aga Khan I
Great-granddaughter of Aga Khan II
Granddaughter of Aga Khan III
Daughter of Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth
Granddaughter of Eduardo Cansino. Great-niece of Elisa Cansino. Niece of Eduardo Cansino Jr..
Half-sister of Aga Khan IV and Rebecca Welles.
Through her maternal grandfather she is descended from the Spanish Jews.
Through her maternal grandmother she is part Irish and part English.
Son Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos was discovered in his Manhattan apartment with a bag over his head, an apparent suicide. Embiricos died 8 days short of his 26th birthday. [4 December 2011].
