In addition to the growing number of students from India, there are over 80 academics from India working at Oxford. They include lecturers, professors, and full-time researchers, across all disciplines.
Many distinguished Indians have been academics at Oxford
over the years, including Amartya Sen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Economics (1998); Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India
(1962-67); and C.N.R. Rao, Head of the Science Advisory Council to the
Prime Minister of India (2009-Present).
Dr Nandini Gooptu
Dr Gooptu is a specialist in Indian urban development, poverty and politics. She currently focuses her research on the social and political consequences of economic liberalisation and globalisation in India. She was the recipient of a University of Oxford Teaching Excellence Award, in 2008, for “Outstanding teaching and commitment to teaching”, nominated by her students. In October 2012, she became Head of Oxford’s Department of International Development.
Dr Gooptu took her bachelor’s degree in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, and her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis, which was subsequently published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press, was entitled 'The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth Century India.'
Professor Aditi Lahiri
Professor Aditi Lahiri is the first chair of the faculty of linguistics, philology and phonetics which was newly formed in 2008 and is one of the country’s biggest linguistics faculties. She is the first Indian-born woman to hold a chair at the University. She specialises in the Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families.
Professor Lahiri has been awarded a number of highly prestigious prizes and awards including the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation (1994), the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2000) and the Professor Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal (2008.) In 2010 she was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy.
Professor Lahiri was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata and later at the University of Calcutta. She earned two doctorate degrees; the first in comparative philology from University of Calcutta and the second in linguistics from Brown University, USA.
Oxford continually seeks to expand the range of scholarships available for Indian students even further, and in 2012 the University was delighted to welcome five of the British Council Jubilee Scholarships holders. These one-off scholarships celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee were offered to Indian students to study at UK universities at the postgraduate level. These five scholars are now studying for a master’s degree at Oxford: three are studying at the Saïd Business School, and two are studying clinical embryology at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 
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