Metcalf est professeur émérite Sarah Kailath d'études indiennes et professeur d'histoire à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley. Il est l'auteur de Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 (2008), A Concise History of Modern India (avec Barbara Metcalf, 2006), Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire (2005), Ideologies of the Raj (1997) et d'autres livres sur l'histoire de l'Inde coloniale.
Bibliographie
Thomas R. Metcalf, Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, (ISBN978-0-520-25805-1)
Barbara Metcalf et Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories), Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, (ISBN0-521-68225-8)
Thomas R. Metcalf, Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, (ISBN0-19-566709-3)
Thomas R. Metcalf, The Aftermath of Revolt India, 1857-1870, Riverdale Co., (ISBN81-85054-99-1)
Thomas R. Metcalf, An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, (ISBN0-520-06235-3)
Thomas R. Metcalf, Land, Landlords, and the British Raj: Northern India in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, (ISBN0-520-03575-5, lire en ligne)