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Dr. Amrita Chattopadhyay

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Forschungsprojekt:

Light and Nocturnal-time: Materiality and Material Practices of Early Modern Nights in Mughal South Asia

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Dr. Amrita Chattopadhyay

Positions

Since 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, ERC-funded Timely Histories' Project, ZMO
- 2024
PhD in History, Centre For Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Thesis Titled: 'Mughal Material Culture: Objects of Value, Consumption and Circulation'
2021 - 2022
BMBF DAAD Research fellow (Namaste+ program) at Iranistik Studies, Georg- August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
2015 - 2017
MPhil in History, Centre For Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Thesis Titled: 'Perfumery Culture in Mughal India: Technology, Consumption and Commodification'
2010 - 2015
Graduation and Post-Graduation in History from Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Publications

Journals:

•‘A Study of Aromatic-Woods in Seventeenth-Century India: Circulation of Aloewood and Sandalwood through Facilitating Port-cities and Trade Networks’ in Crossroads (Brill), 20:1-2, 2022.

•‘Indo-Islamicate Perfumes in Early Modern India: Textualisation, Transmission and Assimilation’ in The Medieval History Journal, Special Issue: Materiality, Vol.26 (2), 2023: 314-352 (Sage).

 

Book Chapters:

•‘Perfumes in Early Modern India: Ephemeral Materiality and Aromatic Mobility’ in Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus Ed. Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade,1600-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2023).

•‘Perfumes in 16th–18th century India: A ‘Religious-Cultural’ Artefact and the Formation of a Scent-landscape’ in Tilottoma Mukherjee and Nupur DasGupta Ed. Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Premodern South Asia (Routledge, 2023).

 

In-preparation:

• Co-authored book chapter with Sylvia Houghtelling and Gianni Sievers on Mughal senses and Ain-i Akbari for Brill’s ‘Handbook of Islamic Sensory History’, edited by Dr. Christian Lange and Dr. Gianni Sievers.

• Journal Article- Mughal Illuminantion: Nocturnal Temporality and Material Practices in Early Modern India (under review)

•    —-------- Night and Nocturnality in India (Edited Monograph, Primus).

Teaching Experience

Guest-Lecturership (course-structuring, class-room lectures and evaluation) for two separate and simultaneous courses titled ‘Visual and Material Cultures in History’ at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Feb-May, 2024).