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Ph. D, South Asian History, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Title of the thesis: “Communication and Patterns of Circulation: Trade, Travel and Knowledge in colonial Bihar, 1760s-1870s.” |
2002-03 |
M. Phil, Modern Indian History, Centre of Historical Studies (CHS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. |
2000-02 |
M.A., Modern Indian History, CHS, JNU, New Delhi |
1997-2000 |
B.A., History (Hons.), Patna College, Patna University |
Languages 
Hindi, English, Bengali (basic), Bhojpuri.
Awards and Grants
2003-2007 |
Felix Foundation Studentship for pursuing Ph. D. |
2004 |
SOAS Additional Research-Fieldwork Grant. |
2004 |
Best Paper “On Modern India and Countries other than India” Award, 65th Indian History Congress, India |
2003 |
Field-work Grant from Indian Council of Historical research, New Delhi, India. |
2003 |
SARAI Student Stipendiary Fellowship, Centre for Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. |
Publications
2009
“Protest and mobilisation: Aspects of workers’ resistance and control”, in Marcel van der Linden & Prabhu P. Mohapatra, eds. Labour Matters Towards Global Histories: Studies in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tulika, New Delhi, 2009.
2008
"Anxiety, Fear and Change: 1857 and Colonial Rule in Bihar", Prajna Bharati: The Journal of the K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna, 2008.
“World of Workers’ Politics: Some Issues of Railway Workers in Colonial India, 1918-1922”, Modern Asian Studies,vol. 42, Sptember 2008 (forthcoming; published online on the Modern Asian Studies website).
“Mobility, control and criminality in colonial India, 1760s-1850s”, Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1-33, 2008.
2007
“Forms of Workers’ Protest Amidst Dilemmas of Contesting Mobilizations: Jamalpur Strike of 1919 and 1928”, Sephis E Magazine: Special Issue on Labour in Memory of Late Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, vol. 3, no. 2, January 2007.
“Contest and Communication: The Geography of Rebellion in Bihar”, Biblio: A Review of Books: A Special Issue on 1857, vol. xii, New Delhi, March-April 2007
“Forged Linkages and the ‘Spectre’ of 1857: A Few Instances from Bihar” in Sharmistha Gooptu and Boria Majumdar eds. Revisiting 1857: History, Myth, Memory, Roli Books, August 2007
Select Conference Attendance & Presentation
March 2011: River, land and colonial state: were ‘people’ marginal? Some examples from the Gangetic diara areas, 1790s–1920s’, presentation at the conference ‘The Transculturality of Historical Disasters: Governance and the Materialisation of Glocalisation’, 3–5 March, New Delhi.
January 2011: ‘When a river shifts its course: Gangetic diaras and the colonial state, 1760s–1890s’ Colloquium presentation, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, 18 January.
November 2010: ‘Print and communal tension in colonial India: The case of Rangila Rasool’, presentation in the ‘Palm leaves, books and internet in India mutual displacement or co-existence’, 11-13 November, International Workshop of Francke Foundation in co-operation with ZMO, Halle, Germany.
September 2010: ‘The role of sadhus in popular mobilizations in colonial India’, Workshop titled, ‘Indian agrarian and peasant history – a challenge to current research’ in memory of Petra Heidrich, ZMO, Berlin, 23rd September.
July 2010: ‘Rangila Rasool: Satirizing Muhammad, Disciplining Hindus, 1870s-1920s’, presentation in the panel titled ‘Indian Satire in the period of First Modernity’, 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn.
June 2010: ‘Flexible spaces: social and economic relationships in diara lands of Gangetic India’ presentation at the International Workshop, ‘Space, Capital and Social History in South Asia, Gottingen University, Germany.
March 2010: ‘Travelling Sociabilities and Rituals: Europeans Journeying along the Ganga and the Limits of Picturesque Gaze, 1760s-1860s’, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Philadelphia.
March 2010: ‘Moving beyond the metropolis: a brief history of a peripheral railway town in India’, All India Labour Historian’s Conference, Delhi.
July 2009: ‘Journeying on the Ganga and the limits of travelling gaze, 1750s-1850s’, Cultural Histories of Sociability, Spaces and Mobility, 9-11 July, Department of History, University of York, UK.
June 2008: Participant, Transnational Labour, Transnational Methods, Global Labour History Summer Institute, New College, University of Toronto, 8-14 June 2008.
May 2007: ‘Communication, circulation and colonial control: A history of a few mobile communities in India, 1760s-1850s’, Postgraduate Conference on Imperial and International History, Sheffield University, UK.
Membership and Organisation
Co-organiser of the Y-SASM annual conference, ‘Gendering and De-gendering South Asia’, 19–21 May 2011, Humboldt University, Germany.
Co-organiser of the Y-SASM annual Workshop ‘Identifying new themes in South Asian History’, ZMO, Berlin, 15 July 2010.
Co-founder of Y-SASM (Young South Asia Scholars Meet), Berlin.
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