Lyn Innes (born 1940) is an Australian-born British academic and author, who is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her interest is in studies of cultural nationalism, with her work focusing on Irish, African, African-American and Caribbean literatures, in which field she has been a scholar of note for more than five decades. As a great-granddaughter of the last Nawab of Bengal, Mansur Ali Khan, Innes is the author of a family memoir entitled ''The Last Prince of Bengal: A Family's Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback'' (2021).
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