Jon Wilson is a historian of South Asia and beyond, interested in the everyday life of politics and government their complicated relationship to ideas about how the world is organised. From July 2025, he will be Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University. Beforehand, he taught and researched at King's College London. His last book India Conquered (US title The Chaos of Empire) was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Prize. He lives in Singapore.