PROFILE IN BRIEF

Work Experience: Teaching at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India since 1.9.1986;

Tach three year long courses on:

History of India, AD 750-1540,

History of India, AD 1540-1750s;

Medieval Delhi

Examined Ph.D. theses;
Member, Governing Body, Doon Public School, and New Delhi.
Served as Expert for various evaluation works for Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi.
Member, Advisory Committee, Historiography and Research Method, ICHR
Convener of Centre for Centre for Media Studies at S.V. College.
Extensive administrative experience as convener of college committees to look after discipline, cultural affairs, college canteen and governing body of the college.
India guide to Anastasia Piliavsky, PHD student with Department of Anthropology at Oxford University.

Present position: Associate Professor of History at SRI Venkateswara College, University of Delhi

Awards & Honors

1. Coordinator of an exchange programme between Sri Venkateswara College and Aarhus University, Denmark for faculty exchange programme and a participant exchange faculty under the same.

2. 2003: Awarded a Major Research Project by Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) to work on "Situating Widows: The Case of 18th Century Rajasthan"

3. 2003-2004: Visiting Fellow at Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Leeds University, UK.

4. 2002-2006: Associate Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (India).

5. 2002: Invited to chair/moderate a session at NWSA conference at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in (could not attend due to unavailability of funding).

6. 2001: Gave a lecture on 'Changing focus and Paradigms in South Indian History Writings' at the Refresher course for the History Teachers of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Delhi, December, 2001

7. 1997: Minor Research Project from the University Grants Commission India (UGC) - "Widow Remarriage in 18th Century Rajasthan".

8. 1994: Travel cum research Grant for Ph.D. work from Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)

Conferences: Papers presented

1. Presented paper on "Criminalisation of Individual Migration in Hindi Films" on October 29/2009 and November 1, 2009 at SunYat Sen National University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

3. Presented a paper on Situating widowhood in 18th century- Why Rajasthan was different?"at UGC sponsored conference titled Feminism in at BHU, Varanasi, March, 2008

2. Presented a paper on "Ahistoricity of Hindi films" at Media and Imperialism organized conference at Amsterdam, July 17-20, 2007

4. Presented a paper on "Structures of Punishment in 18th century Rajasthan" at the Annual Meeting, 2007 of Association of Asian Studies (AAS) at Boston on March 22-25, 2007.

5. Presented a paper titled "Camel: The Economics of Theft" at international conference at Jaipur in December, 2005 at Rajasthan Studies Group (Accepted for publication in the proceedings volume)

6. Presented a paper on 'Real and Imagined Widowhood in Hindi Films: The case of Prem Rog and Kati Patang' at Southampton conference organized by Women's History Network, UK on 2-4 September 2006.

7. Presented 'Widow Remarriage in 18th Century Rajasthan' at ICAS conference held in August 2003, at Singapore.

8. A paper titled 'Gender and Crime in 18th Century Rajasthan' presented at International Association of History of Crime and Criminal Justice at Maison des'l Homme, Paris on 6th/7th of June, 2003.

Papers accepted at forthcoming conferences:

1. Tennessee, USA, 9-10 April, 2009: paper titled 'The shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya and urban growth in medieval Delhi' at conference "Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages"

2. Prague, Czech republic, July 7-11, 2010, XVI International Oral History Conference Between Past and Future paper titled 'Faking the History: Food and creation of popular myth in Old Delhi' (accepted for presentation)

3. Sunderland, USA,March 2010, "Hindi films of 1950s and construction of Muslim identity"

4. Texas, USA, Feb 2010, "Food and Creation of Motherhood in Hindi films"

5. Gottingen, Germany, June 2010, "Land grab cases and Hindi films"

6. Bonn, Germany, July 2010(ECMSAS), "The creation of morals: colonial deconstruction of Asian attitude towards mind and body: a case study of alcohol and opium consumption among the Mughal rulers and elite"

Papers accepted but not presented for various reasons:

7. December, 2006 at Oriental society of Australia, Sydney, on "Aligarh Historians and the Writing of Medieval Indian History"; ( could not attend for lack of funds)

8. August, 2007 at Kualalampur, Malayasia, on "An evaluation of the works of Professor Muhammad Habib" (same as above)

9. Accepted for presentation a paper titled "Supernaturals in Hindi Films: The case of a Dreadful Bear and Snake in Disguise" at Chicago in 2008.

10. Paper accepted at EASAS, Manchester, 2008 on "Crimes on the Highways in 18th century Rajasthan"

11. 1. Paper titled "Devdas: A novel and Three presentations" accepted for presentation for a conference at Kansas, USA, 11-14 October, 2007.

12. 'Mughal Imperial Rituals in 16th-17th century' (tentative title), paper accepted for presentation to 7th Annual Conference on Ritual, festival and celebration at Ohio, USA in May 2003. (Could not attend for lack of funding)

13. A paper on widow Remarriage in panel formation stage at the NWSA conference at New Orleans in June 2003(Could not attend for lack of funds, But paper read in absentia)

Public lectures

1. 26/Nov/2008: Ram Lal Anand College, New Delhi: The politics of legitimacy and the early Mughals

2. 29/March/ 2008: Plenary lecture at 'Feminism in India' conference at BHU, Varanasi, India.

Memberships of Academic Bodies:

1. Life member, Indian History Congress

2. Member, Women's History Network, UK

3. Member, Society for South Asian Studies, London.

4. Member, British Association of South Asian Studies, UK

5. Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of United Kingdom and Ireland

Publications

1. Co-edited a book of collected articles on Pakistan in Hindi films titles "Filming the Line of Control: India Pakistan Relationship through the Cinematic Lens" published by Routledge., NY, London, New Delhi, 2008

2. Editor of Essays in History of Early Modern Indian History being published by Research India Press, New Delhi, to be out in 2009.

3. Edited book Medieval Delhi: A Reader (with Orient Blackswan){manuscript submitted and accepted for publication.

4. Co-editing a book on "Muslim Identities in Hindi films" and to be submitted for publication to a very reputed international publisher.(going to press)

5. Series editor of 'Sources of Indian History', a series of about 20 monographs each of 60 to 100 pages to be written by young and established historians (in negotiation with a prominent publisher)

Articles/Papers

1. 2008: Paper titled 'Economics of Camel theft: some observations' published in Varssha joshi and surjit Singh (ed.), Culture ,Polity and Economy, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2009

2. 2004: Paper titled "Gender and Crime in 18th Century Rajasthan" published in the XXXth issue of Indian Historical Review.

3. 2004: "Adultery in 18th Century Rajasthan", a paper presented at Seminar on Medieval Rajasthan on 6th of February 2004, at Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi.

4. 2004: "Spare the Body, Spare the Soul: A 'Different' Model of Penal Regime in 18th Century Rajasthan", presented at IIAS, Shimla.

5. 2001: Paper "Widow Re-marriage in 18th Century Rajasthan", at Sri Venkateswara College seminar on "State and Ideology in History" on 6-7 December.

6.1997: Rituals of Power and Power of Rituals in 16th Century Mughal India in Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Bangalore.

7.1995: One article in the Delhi University Textbook on Delhi Sultanate for Hindi language students:

(a) Urbanization in Medieval India.

8. 1994: One paper on "Imperial Rituals in 16th century Mughal North India" presented at the UGC seminar on "State and Society" at Delhi University

9. 1993: Three articles in the Delhi University Textbook on Mughal India for Hindi language students

(a) Turko-Mongol Theory of Kingship;

(b) The Law of Escheat in Mansabdari System (of Mughal India);

Book Reviews

1. 2004: Satish Chandra, Essays in Medieval Indian History, OUP, New Delhi, 2003, in Indian Historical Review

2. 2004: P.J.Marshall, ed., The Eighteenth Century In Indian History: Evolution or Revolution, OUP, New Delhi, 2003, in Indian Historical Review

3. 1994-95: Indu Banga, ed., Ports and Their Hinterlands, Manohar, New Delhi, 1992, in Social Science Probings, Vol.11 and 12, 1994-1995,Special Issue.

4. 1993: Stephen Blake, Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City of Mughal India, 1639-1739, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, in Social Scientist, vol.21, no.12.

5. 1987-1988 - Hamida Khatoon Naqvi, Agricultural, Industrial and Urban Dynamism the Sultans of Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1986, in Indian Historical Review, vol. XIV, nos. 1-2.

6. H.C.Verma, Harvesting Water And Rationalization of Agriculture in North India (for Indian Historical Review), forthcoming.

7. 2002: Aparna Basu & Anup Taneja, Eds. Breaking Out of Invisibility, Indian Council of Historical Research and National Book Center, New Delhi, in Contemporary India, a journal published by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

8. Annamarie Schimmel, The Mughal Empire, OUP, 2005 for Indian History review, Forthcoming.

9. Rima Hooja, History of Rajasthan, Rupa, New Delhi, 2007, for Social Scientist, forthcoming.

10.Vidyut Chakrabarty, Indian Pilitics and Society Since Independence: Events, Processes and Ideology, Routledge, London and New York, 2008, for Journal of South Asian Development, forthcoming.

11. R.V.Smith, The Delhi no-one Knows, Chronicle books, Delhi, 2005, Contemporary South Asia, SOAS, UK

12. Kumkum Srivastava, The Wandering Sufis: Qalanadars and Their Path, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2008 for Social Scientist, , Forthcoming

13. Mytheli Sreenivas, Wives, Widows and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2008 for IIAS Netherland.

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