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Education
| Course | Intitution | Year | Details |
| History Ph.D.
| Duke University, Durham, U.S.A.
| 1992
| Thesis topic: The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate
| | History, M.A.
| University of Bridgeport, U.S.A
| 1978
| Thesis topic: Norm and Reality in the Delhi Sultanate
| | History, B.A (Hons)
| St. Stephens College, Delhi University
| 1975
| Subjects: History hons.
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Career Profile
| Organisation / Institution | Designation | Duration | Role |
| Dept. of History, Delhi Univ.
| Professor
| 2005 June-
| Research and teaching
| | Dept. of History, Delhi Univ.
| Reader
| 1994-2005
| Research and teaching
| | Dept. of History, Delhi Univ.
| Senior Lecturer
| 1992-1994
| Research and teaching
| | Dept. of History, Delhi Univ.
| Lecturer
| 1985-1992
| Research and teaching
| | St. Stephens College
| Ad-hoc lecturer
| 1984-1985
| Teaching
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Medieval Indian history, the medieval world, history of religion (primarily Islam), Archaeology. My work is mainly concerned with questions relating to the emergence of the Muslim community, their relationship with the state, the emergence of pietistic cultures, political cultures and their ideological and institutional manifestations. |
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M.A. Courses i) A Social and Cultural History of Medieval Europe and the Central Islamic lands; ii) Sufism; iii) The Provincial Sultanates in Medieval South Asia (1350-1550); iv) The Delhi Sultanate (1192-1550); v) History of India (1540-1605); vi) Urban History of Medieval India.
M.Phil seminar course: i) The Historian's Craft; ii) Problems in the Historical Study of Society and Culture. |
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1) February 2008, Townsend Scholar in Residence, Townsend Center, University of California at Berkeley.
2) March 16, 2007, Presidential Address, Medieval India Section, Punjab History Congress, Patiala
3) May-June 2006, Visiting Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
4) March 2001, Visiting Professor, CEIAS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. |
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Publication (last
five years) - Books
| Year of Publication | Title | Publisher | Co-Author |
| 2008
| The Present in Delhi’s Pasts, Delhi: Three Essays Collective. Second Edition.
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| The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286, Delhi: Permanent Black.
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| . With Munis Faruqui, Richard M. Eaton, and David Gilmartin, Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honour of John F. Richards, Cambridge: Modern Asian Studies.
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| Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples? Readings on History and Temple Desecration in Medieval India, Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
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| with Kunal Chakrabarti, Our Pasts II: Social Science Text Book in History for Class VII, Delhi: NCERT.
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Publication (last
five years) - In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year of Publication | Title | Jounal | Co-Author |
| 2009
| “The Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the early Delhi Sultanate”, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 43, pp. 45-77.
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| “Balancing Autonomy with Service: Frontier Military Commanders and their relations with the Delhi Sultans in the 13th and 14th centuries”, Presidential Address, Medieval History Section, Proceedings of the Punjab History Congress, Patiala, vol. 39, pp. 86-100.
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| “La Communauté Musulmane et les Relations Hindous-Musulmans dans l’Inde du Nord au début du XIIIe siècl: une Réévaluation Politique”, Annales Histoire, Sciences, Sociales, vol. 60, pp. 239-64.
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2008 “Juzjani, Minhaj-i Siraj” in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
2008 “Reflection on the Past and Present of two Sufi Shrines in Delhi” in Sunil Kumar, The Present in Delhi’s Pasts, Delhi: Three Essays Collective, 2nd edition.
2008 “Politics, the Muslim Community and Hindu-Muslim Relations Reconsidered: North India in the early Thirteenth century”, in Rajat Datta ed. Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth century: Essays for Harbans Mukhia, Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 139-167.
2007 “Raziyya, Sultan” in Encyclopaedia of Women in World History, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 585-586.
2006 “Service, Status and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries”, in Richard Eaton and Indrani Chatterjee, eds., Slavery in Indian History, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 83-114.
2006 “Mongols and Nomadic Empires, 13th-14th Centuries” in Narayani Gupta, ed., NCERT Class XI, Text-book on World History, Delhi: NCERT, pp. 104-122. | |
2009 at the Conference, Tributary Empires – Comparative Histories, the Danish Academy, Rome 23-26 April.
“The Nature of Mughal Hegemony”
2009 at the South Asia History Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, January 6.
“The Woman and the hisab of Men: Sultana Raziyya and Early Sultanate Society”.
2008 at the Conference, The Theme of Imperial Decline and Resistance, COST A36: Tributary Empires Compared, Vienna, April 11-13.
“The Decline Literature: The discussion (or not) of the twilight of the Delhi Sultans in Sultanate and Mughal historiography”.
2008 at the University of California at Berkeley, February 7, and the University of Michigan, February 20.
“The Woman and the hisab of Men: Sultana Raziyya and Early Sultanate Society”.
2008 at the University of California at Los Angeles; February 8; University of Chicago, February 21; University of California at Berkeley, February 26.
“Kingship, courts and capitals: Sultanate Delhi in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries”,
2007 at the Conference Court Culture in the Muslim World: Politics and Patronage (7th-19th Centuries) at Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany, July 2-5.
“The Many Courts and Cities of the Delhi Sultans”
2007 at the Conference After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in fifteenth century North India, School of Oriental and African Studies, May 29-31.
“Bandagani and Naukari: Studying transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, 13th-16th centuries”.
2007 at the Punjab History Congress, Patiala, March 16, Presidential Address, Medieval History Section.
“Balancing Autonomy with Service: Frontier Military Commanders and their Relations with the Delhi Sultans in the 13th and 14th centuries”.
2006 at the Conference Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History – Honouring John F. Richards, North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, Duke University, September 29-30.
“Frontier Feudatories and the Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the early Delhi Sultanate”.
2006 at the India International Centre, Delhi, September 5, The Sir Sobha Singh Memorial Lectures on Delhi.
“Reflections on the Past and Present of Sufi Shrines in Delhi”.
2006 at Columbia University, March 9.
“The Ignored Elite: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Delhi Sultanate of the 13th and 14th centuries”.
2005 at the Conference on the Material and the Imaginary, organized by Francesca Orsini, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, March 14.
“Remapping the north Indian world of thirteenth and early fourteenth century Persian literary production”.
2004 at the National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii on Religion and Politics in India: Culture, History and the Contemporary Experience, June 15-18.
“Religious and Political Dynamics of the arrival of Islam in India” and “Hindu-Muslim Relations: a history of antagonism or creative syncretism”.
2004 at the Conference on Rethinking a Millennium: India from the Eight to the Eighteenth Centuries – a Seminar in honour of Prof. Harbans Mukhia, at Nehru Memorial Library and Museum, New Delhi, February 2-4.
“Politics, the Muslim Community and Hindu-Muslim Relations Reconsidered: North India in the early Thirteenth century”.
2003 at the Conference on Politics as the Site of the Modern, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, October 17-19.
“Politics in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth century north India and the pre-history of Hindu-Muslim Relations”.
2003 at Oxford University, May 19th, and at the University of Chicago, June 5.
“The Woman and the hisab of Men: Sultana Raziyya and Early Sultanate Society”. |
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Publication
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Publication
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Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity
University Service:
Curriculum Development: (i) 2006, chaired workshop of college lecturers for the teaching of ‘Medieval Delhi’ concurrent course; (ii) 2004, framed two Medieval history concurrent courses for B.A. (Hons) non-history stream students; (iii) 2003, Chaired meeting of college teachers for implementation of the new course B.A. History (Hons.), paper 3, History of India, 750-1550 CE; (iv) 2002, Chaired committee for course revision of B.A. History (Hons.), paper 3, History of India, 750-1550 CE; (v) 1990, Framed the M.Phil Ordinance for the M.Phil. Committee; (vi) 1990 + involved in implementing the revised M.Phil. course.
Recent Administrative Duties:(i) 2008, Part of Delhi University team that visited Uzbekistan to determine possibilities of exchange programme; (ii) 2008 Executive Councils nominee on the Managing Committee of D.S.Kothari Hostel; (iii) 2007, appointed member of the Governing Body, Miranda House College, Delhi University; (iv) 2007, appointed Chairperson of Screening Committee for appointments and promotions, Miranda House College, Delhi University; (v) 2007, Member Himachal Pradesh University Vice Chancellor’s Committee of Examination Experts for history
Consulting Activity:
2001 – Managing Editor, The Indian Economic and Social History Review
1997-2001- Associate Editor, The Indian Economic and Social History Review.
2006- Advisor, Textbook Development Committee, NCERT, Class VII textbook: “Our Pasts II”.
2006- Co-Organiser of Conference: “Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History – Honouring John F. Richards”, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Sept. 29-30.
1995-96- Research consultant, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH): Humayun Tomb project.
1993-94- Research consultant, Theatre in Education Company, National School of Drama, New Delhi.
1989-92- Research consultant, Land Use and Vegetation changes in South Asia, 1800-1980, a Smithsonian Institute funded programme. | |
Professional Societies Memberships
Treasurer: Indian Economic and Social History Association, Delhi School of Economics (President, Professor Om Prakash, Delhi School of Economics)
Life Member: Indian History Congress |
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