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Faculty Publications

The Practice of History in India:: Essays in Search of a New Past by Anirudh Deshpande

In the last few decades, professional historians have raised important questions regarding the theories, methods and practices of history extant since the earliest times...

Book Launch: Education and Inequality: Historical and Contemporary Trajectories ed. by Vikas Gupta, Rama Kant Agnihotri, and Minati Panda

Date and Time: Friday, 1st October, 2021 between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm followed by a panel discussion. For registration link please click here.

Gods, Men and Women Gender and Sexuality in Early Indian Art by Seema Bawa

The book is an exploration of ancient Indian art from the perspective of gender. It focuses on the period from 181 BCE to CE 320 a period of great turmoil in the politico-economic, socio-cultural and religious spheres that gave rise to contesting ideologies and gender complexities in ancient India.

An Earthly Paradise Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal by Raziuddin Aquil

This collection of articles on varied facets of early modern Bengal showcases cutting edge work in the field and hopes to encourage new research. The essays explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth centuries.

Book Launch: Locating Pleasure in Indian History by Prof Seema Bawa

Seminar Committee, Department of History, University of Delhi cordially invites you to a Book Launch: Locating Pleasure in Indian History Time: Friday, 17 September 2021, 3.30 pm IST.

Women and Gender in Ancient India: A Study of Texts and Inscriptions by Vijaya Laxmi Singh

Subordination of women is a common feature of almost all stages of history and is prevalent everywhere in the world. However, the extent and form of that subordination has been conditioned by the social and cultural environment in which women have been placed.

Weaving Hierarchies by Santosh Kumar Rai

Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces combines primarily historical data with extensive field research to give us new insights into the structures of artisan trades and the lives of weaving communities specifically...

The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture by Parul Pandya Dhar

The book investigates the subject of toranas (arched portals) in the architecture of South and Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on Indian representations. Their antiquity and rationale; their continued presence in association with stupas, caves, temples, mosques, cities, forts, and palaces; their myriad forms and transformations; and their aesthetic and symbolic relationship to the structure in question are analyzed in depth...

The Making of Womanhood by Shalini Shah

This second edition tries to answer concerns about Mahabharata as a source for history and about continued relevance of patriarchal construct in writing a new women's history. While there is no need to interpret structures as monolithic...

The Gender of Caste by Charu Gupta

Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and...

The Changing Gaze by B. P. Sahu

Why did Indian historians move away from the centric approach in the 1970s? Why did they shift their focus to local sub-regions instead of focusing on historio-geographic blocks like the Gangetic heartland or the Kaveri...

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi

Seema Alavi challenges the idea that all pan-Islamic configurations are anti-Western or pro-Caliphate. A pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp of the British and Ottoman empires became the basis of a global Muslim...

Love, Eroticism, and Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature: Seventh-thirteenth Centuries by Shalini Shah

This book is an attempt to analyse the conception of kama in the early-medieval classical Sanskrit literary tradition from a gender perspective. By reading against the grain, the author has tried to illuminate the sexual status......

Locating Pleasure in Indian History Prescribed and Proscribed Desires in Visual and Literary Cultures by Seema Bawa

Locating Pleasure in Indian History is one of the first works on the subject of the 'discourse of pleasure' in Indian history and culture. A source-based, rigorous work...

Identity, Community and State: The Jains Under the Mughals by Shalin Jain

This work traces the history of the Medieval Jain community, focusing on the engagements of the Jains with the imperialo authority in the Mughal provinces of Ajmer, Awadh, Allahabad, Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Lahore and Malwa...

Hope and Despair by Anirudh Deshpande

This book recounts the story of the thousands of Indians, sailors and forgotten working class people, who braved British bullets, tanks and bayonets on the streets of Bombay and Karachi during the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) ...

History, Ideas and Society by S.Z.H. Jafri

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Gendering Colonial India by Charu Gupta

This collection of essays analyses the close interaction between gender, caste and community identities in colonial India between the early 19th and the first half of 20th centuries. This volume brings out various...

Days in the Life of a Sufi by Raziuddin Aquil

The lives of Sufis are replete with stories of tantalizing miracles and unforgettable anecdotes of wisdom. The 101 Sufi tales in this book show pursuits of ethical and moral conduct in Sufi spirituality - a vibrant movement within Islamic traditions across time and space....

Contestation and Compliance: Retrieving Women's 'Agency'from Puranic Traditions by Jaya S.Tyagi

This book looks into the representations of women in early textual traditions in order to trace the complex manner in which Puranic conceptualizations relating to women and their participation in religious activities have emerged. While retrieving representations of women in Puranic traditions and the context in which they exist,...

Becoming a Borderland The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India by Sanghamitra Misra

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these...

Awadh from Mughal to Colonial Rule by S. Z. H. Jafri

This volume contains wide-ranging surveys of various aspects of the history of Awadh from its position as a province of the Mughal Empire to a successor state, a semi-colony under the Nawabi regime, the British annexation and the resistance in 1857. The study explores the manner...

Sindias and the Raj by Amar Farooqui

Sindias and the Raj is a study of the Sindia state of Gwalior during the colonial period. It traces the history of one of the leading princely states of the British Indian empire ...

Opium City by Amar Farooqui

It was primarily opium that linked Bombay to the international capitalist economy and the western Indian hinterland in the nineteenth century. The essays in this book explore

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