Khan completed her DPhil at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2005 in Imperial and Commonwealth History.
[4] Khan is an editor of History Workshop Journal[5] and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust.
[7][8] Khan's publications include The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007),[9] which won the Gladstone Book Prize from the Royal Historical Society[10] and was long-listed for the Orwell Prize,[11] and The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War (2015).
[17][18][19] The first episode, based on the passenger list of the Viceroy of India, included the story of Mulk Raj Anand.
[20] In 2020, Khan presented a three-part series with Professor Alice Roberts for BBC 2 on two major archeological digs carried out in London and Birmingham in preparation for building terminals for the HS2 high-speed railway.