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Safya Morshed is a Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on internal conflicts and their impact on state capacity development in Mughal India (1555-1707). She is constructing a new conflict database for South Asia, and her thesis explores the evolution of conflicts within the empire to understand the state's ability to raise taxes and how these conflicts affected institutional development. Her dissertation aims to present insights into the rise and decline of state power prior to British rule, with a broader interest in understanding Asian economic development. Safya is a co-founder of the Asian Economic History seminar series at LSE, where she looks at comparative work between precolonial India and premodern China. Her doctoral dissertation is titled 'Evolution of Revolutions: State Capacity in Mughal India (1555-1707)'.
Department of Economics