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Edward Simpson has a PhD from the London School of Economics, UK, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Biography

Edward Simpson has a PhD from the London School of Economics, UK, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His work has focused on the state of Gujarat in western India. He is interested in mobility, knowledge, morality and crisis. He is the author of The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India (Society and History in the Indian Ocean) (C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London, 2013) - a study of the things people do in the name of humanity and humanitarianism at times of crisis; and Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean: The Seafarers of Kachchh (Routledge, London, 2006) – a monograph about growing up to be a seafarer.