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Teaching and Research Experience
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2009 |
Summer Semester: Quellenübung, ‘Islam in Modern South Asia and the Question of Leadership’ at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. |
2008-2009
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Winter Semester: Quellenübung, ‘The Discourse of “Muslim Backwardness” and the Problem of ‘Separatism’ in South Asia’at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. |
2005 (April)- 2007 (April)
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Research Assistant at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, (IDSK, Calcutta) in the Project of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) on ‘Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947’. |
2006 (August)- 2007 (April) |
Part-time lecturer in History, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta. |
2004 (December)- 2006 (March) |
Part-time lecturer in History, S.A. Jaipuria College, Calcutta. |
Selected Publications (since 2009) 
Article in Peer-reviewed Journal:
2011:‘Being 'Ismaili' and 'Muslim': Some Observations on the
Politico-Religious Career of Aga Khan III’ in South Asia: Journal of
South Asian Studies, 34, 2 (2011), pp. 188- 207.
2010: ‘Two Accounts of the Colonised “Other” in South Asia: Re-exploring Alterity’ in South Asia Research, 30, 2 (2010), pp. 165-184.
Working Paper:
2009: ‘Conceptualizing Reform and Building Consensus: Islam in South Asia, and some Aspects of Leadership Patterns and Political Consciousness’, Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069, Working Paper No. 45 , March 2009; http://hpsacp.uni-hd.de/
Book Review:
2010: Review of Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian politics and society since Independence: events, processes and ideology (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008) in Contemporary South Asia, 18, 4 (2010), pp. 456-457.
2010: Review of John R. Hinnells and Richard King (eds), Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) in Contemporary South Asia, 18, 2 (2010), pp. 231-232.
2010: Review of Crispin Bates, Subalterns and the Raj: South Asia Since 1600 (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) in Contemporary South Asia, 18, 1 (2010), pp. 106-107.
Others:
Articles on ‘Bahmani Sultanate’; ‘Bijapur Sultanate’; ‘Bihar & Orissa’; ‘Bombay (Mumbai)’; ‘Gujarat’; ‘Ismaili’; ‘Kashmir’; ‘Parsi’ in Lexikon für Überseegeschichte, Bayreuth, Überseegeschichte e.V. (forthcoming).
Invited Talk, Academic Presentation etc. (selected, since 2009)
March 2012: Invited Talk- ‘Liberal Islam’ and Ismaili ethics in the 20th century: ‘religious and social welfare’ of ‘the Community’ and ‘non-denominational’ development, at Etudes gujarati et sindhi: sociétés, langues et cultures, Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient, Paris.
October 2011: Invited Talk- ‘Of “religious and social welfare” of “the Community”: Khoja Ismaili perspectives from 19th and 20th century South Asia and East Africa’, Department of History of the Modern World, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich.
September 2011: ‘The Legal Definition of a Shiite Sub-Sect: Ideas of Community and Social Reformism among the Nizari Khojas in Colonial Bombay’, at the conference on ‘Communities-in-Law’: Social Identities & Imperial Rule, School of Law, University of Reading.
September 2011: ‘Of “religious and social welfare” and “progress of the Community”: Religious Inspiration, Leadership and Idioms of Welfarism among Shia Imami Ismailis in 20th Century South Asia and East Africa’ at the conference on Contesting Shi‘ism: Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism in Modern South Asia, Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London.
July 2011: ‘Promoting “religious and social welfare” of “the community”: Religious Inspiration, Didactic Leadership and Welfarist Thoughts among Shia Imami Ismailis in 20th Century South Asia and East Africa’ at the workshop on Trading Cultures Across the Indian Ocean, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
September 2010: Chair- Session 2 in the Graduate Workshop of Junior Research Group B 9 (‘Asymmetries in Cultural Information Flows’ of the Cluster of Excellence, ‘Asia & Europe in Global Context’, University of Heidelberg) on ‘Pre-colonial and Colonial Perspectives on Science & Technology in South Asia’, University of Heidelberg.
July 2010: ‘Conceiving “Development”: Aga Khan III and Some Aspects of an Islamic Welfarism in Twentieth Century South Asia’ at the 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Bonn.
September 2009: ‘Redefining the “Self”: The Political Activism of Aga Khan III and Muslim Religious Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Asia’ at the 3rd European South Asia PhD Workshop organized by the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
Selected Academic Awards and Scholarships
(since 2007)
2011 (January-February) |
Visiting Research Fellowship, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Culture & Society and the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. |
2007 (October)- 2010 (December) |
Doctoral Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). |
2009-10 & 2008 |
Travel Grant of the Graduate Academy, University of Heidelberg for research trip to India & UK respectively. |
Professional Membership/ Fellowship
- Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
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