Corruption, Contagion, and Espionage: Remaking Diplomatic Practice from Company State Wakils to British Raj Politicals (Dr. Adil Hasan Khan, University of Melbourne)

Dr. Khan’s paper examines the transformation of diplomatic officials representing the Company State in late 18^th century South Asia into counterinsurgency maintaining Crown agents in the 19^th century, to offer some reflections on the contemporary crises of diplomatic practice.  

Dr. Adil Hasan Khan is Senior Research Fellow, Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Adil Hassan Khan completed his PhD. in International Studies, with a specialization in International Law and a minor in Anthropology and Sociology of Development, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva (2010-2016). He was a Senior Research Fellow with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (2021-2022) and a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2020) at Melbourne Law School; a Residential Institute Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School (2016-2017); a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna (2015-2016); and a  Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton University (2023).

The Transnational and Global History Seminar of the Carolina Seminars; the Center for European Studies, UNC-CH; the Department of History, UNC-CH