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Derek L. Elliott is currently in the second year of a PhD in History funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowship. Previously as an undergraduate (2004-2008) he read for a combined honours degree in International Development Studies and Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. For his early graduate work he undertook an MSc in Global History at the LSE (2008-2009) and an MA in Global Studies at the Universität Leipzig (2009-2010) as part of an Erasmus Mundus Masters program, funded by the European Commission. His MSc thesis was titled ‘Pirates, Polities, and Companies: Global Politics Along the Konkan Littoral, c. 1690-1756’, for which he was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History. His doctoral thesis, titled ‘Torture and Revenue Extraction in Company Administered India, 1800-1855’, is supervised and advised by Dr. Shruti Kapila and Professor Christopher Bayly respectively. Derek’s research uses instances of torture and oppression carried out by servants of the East India Company to examine larger questions about the relationship between rent-collection and violence, and the nature of imperial power. His research also draws on early nineteenth century metropolitan debates of what constituted good governance, and how this affected changes in legitimacy for British rule in India.
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