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Dr. Title Designation

First Name

Meena

Last Name

Photograph

Bhargava

Associate Professor

Address D – 604, Palam Apartments Plot No. 7, Sector 5 Dwarka New Delhi – 110075

Phone No Office 011-23976392; 011-23954085 011-28087689

Residence Mobile

9899268581

Email [email protected]

Educational Qualifications Degree Institution

Year

Ph.D. University of Delhi

1992

University of Delhi

1980

University of Delhi

1976

University of Delhi

1974

M. Phil. M.A. B.A. (Hons.)

Career Profile Lecturer - Indraprastha College For Women, University of Delhi - 1981 to 1995 Reader/Associate Professor - Indraprastha College For Women, University of Delhi - 1995 till date

Administrative Assignments (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j)

Year

Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Department of Geography, 2017 till date Member, Admissions Committee, 2017 -18. Coordinated admissions as OSD of the Department of Geography during this period Member, Time-Table and Workload Committee for the D epartment of Geography, 2017 -18 Assisted in writing the AQAR of the College for NAAC, 2017 Presiding Officer, Internal Complaints Committee constituted under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, 2017 till date Member, Library Committee, 2017 till date Coordinator, Museum & Archives Learning Resource Centre, 2015 till date Assisted in writing the SSR of the College as Member, Steering Committee for NAAC, 2014 -2015 Secretary, Alumnae Association of the College, 2012 -2014 University Examination Coordinator for the College, 2011 -2012

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(k) (l) (m) (n) (o) (p) (q) (r) (s) (t) (u)

Convener, Academic Standards Committee, 2011 -2014 Member, Leave Committee of the College, 2011 -2014 Member, Monitoring Committee of the College, 2011 -2014 Member, Library Committee, 2011 -2014 Convener, Library Committee, 2009 -2011 Member, Academic Standards Committee, 2009 -2011 Faculty Advisor, Students U nion, 2009-2011 Convener, Principal’s Report, 2009 -2014 Deputy Superintendent Examinations in College, May 2010 Convener, Reference and General Section of the Library, 2007 -2014 Convener, ECO Club, 2007-2010. Coordinated activities with the Ministry of En vironment, Government of Delhi NCR (v) Ex-Officio, College Admissions Committee, 2007 -2008 (w) Convener, BA Programme Admissions, 2007 -2008 (x) Convener, College Admissions Committee, 2006 - 2007 (y) Convener, Concurrent and Discipline Courses, 2005 - 2009 (z) University Coordinator, BA Programme Committee, 2005 - 2009 (aa) Teacher-in-Charge, Department of History, 2005 -2007 (bb) Member, Admissions Committee, 2005 -2007. Coordinated admissions as Teacher -in-Charge of the Department of History during this period. (cc) Member, Time-Table and Workload Committee, 2005 -2007 (dd) Member, Extended Attendance Committee, 2005 -2007 (ee) Member, Internal Assessment Committee, 2005 -2007 (ff) Member, College Archives Committee, 2004-2015 (gg) Joint Secretary, Staff Council, 2000 -2001 (hh) Member, Library Committee, 1999-2003 (ii) Assisted the Admissions Committee and coordinated admissions for the Department of History, 1998 2003 (jj) Convener, Prizes Committee, 1998 -2002 (kk) Treasurer, Alumnae Association of the College, 1996 -1998 (ll) Member, Proctorial Committee, 1995 -1999 (mm) Secretary, Alumnae Association of the College, 1994 -1996 (nn) Assisted the Admissions Committee and coordinated admissions for the Department of History, 1993 1995 (oo) Secretary, Staff Association, 1993 -1994 (pp) Co-Convener, Time-Table and Workload Committee, 1992 -1994 (qq) Faculty Advisor, Students Union, 1992 -1994 (rr) Teacher-in-Charge, Department of History, 1991 -1993 (ss) Member, Admissions Committee, 1991 -1993. Coordinated admissions as Teacher -in-Charge of the Department of History during this period. (tt) Member, Time-Table and Workload Committee, 1991 -1993 (uu) Faculty Advisor, Students Union, 1990 -1991 (vv) Assisted the Admissions Committee and coordinated admissions for the Department of History, 1990 1991 (ww) Assisted the Admissions Committee and coordinated admissions for the Departm ent of History, 19841988 (xx) Faculty Advisor, History Society, 1984 -1988 (yy) Faculty Advisor, National Service Scheme (NSS), 1982 -1986

Areas of Interest / Specialization Specialization – Medieval Indian History and Transition Period in Indian History Areas of Interest – Mughal History, Environmental Issues in India, Narcotics and Drugs, Agrarian History and Land Rights in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century India.

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Subjects Taught Undergraduate Students: History of India, c. 1200-1500; History of India, c. 1500-1600; History of India, c. 1600 1750, History of USA, 1776 -1945; Environmental Issues in India; Delhi – Medieval; Culture in India – Medieval; Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World; Cultural Transformation in Modern Eu rope, c. 1500-1800; History of India, c. 1750s -1970s; Issues in the World History (the 20th Century); Documentation and Visual Culture. Postgraduate Students: History of USA, c. 1812-1877.

Research Guidance Course Instructor for a Bio-Engineering student from San Diego, University of California, USA (under Education Abroad Program). Supervised her for two courses in Indian History and Indian Literature, Spring 1995 (January June 1995).

Publications Profile in APA Format Books – Authored, Co-Authored 2014. State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition, 1750 -1830. Revised Edition. New Delhi: Primus Books. ISBN: 978-93-80607-60-3 (First Published, New Delhi: Manohar, 1999. ISBN: 81 -7304-281-0). 2015. with Kalyani Dutta. Women, Education and Politics: The Women’s Movement and Delhi’s Indraprastha College. Reprint. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0 -19-566911-8 (First Published, 2005). Books - Edited ed. 2017. Frontiers of Environment: Issues in Medieval and Early Modern India . Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan. ISBN: 978-93-86392-78-7 ed. 2014. The Decline of the Mughal Empire . Debates in Indian History and Society. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-809056-0 ed. 2010. Exploring Medieval India, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Ce nturies: Politics, Economy, Religion . Vol. I. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. ISBN: 978 -81-250-4103-0 ed. 2010. Exploring Medieval India, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Culture, Gender, Regional Patterns . Vol. II. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. ISBN: 978 -81-250-4104-7 Chapters in Books 2017. ‘Changing River Courses in North India: Calamities, Bounties, Strategies – Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries’. In M. Bhargava (ed.). Frontiers of Environment: Issues in Medieval and Early Modern India . Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan. pp. 232 -256. 2013. ‘Delhi Under the Mughals’. In A. Bansal & M. Kochupillai (eds.). Architectural Guide: Delhi. New Delhi: DOM Publishers. pp. 19-27. 2011. ‘Delhi Under The Mughals’. In INTACH Training Manual for Heritage Inte rpreters on World Heritage Sites of Delhi, Qutb Minar, Humayun’s Tomb, Red Fort . New Delhi: INTACH. pp. 26 -34.

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2011. ‘Visibility through Resistance: The Malangis and Salt Making in Eighteenth Century Bengal’. In B. Pati (ed.). Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival, Resistance and Negotiation . New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. pp. 139 159. 2010. ‘Delhi Under The Mughals’. In S. Liddle & A. Lopez (eds.). Delhi, A Living Heritage. New Delhi: IGNCA & INTACH. pp. 34-45. 2010. ‘Forests, People and State: Cont inuities and Changes’. In M. Bhargava (ed.). Exploring Medieval India, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Politics, Economy, Religion . Vol. I. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. pp. 287 306. 2003. ‘Nomadic or Semi-Nomadic: Banjaras and the Indian Economy, Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries’. In B. Pati, B.P. Sahu & T.K. Venkatasubramaniam (eds.). Ideology, State and Society: Perspectives in Indian History. New Delhi: Tulika. pp. 153-173. 2002. ‘Agricultural Technology and Patterns of Exchange: A Study o f Central Asia and its Interaction with India, 10th –18th Centuries’. In A. Rahman (ed.). India’s Interaction with China, Central Asia and West Asia. History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization. Vol. III. Part II. New Delhi: Oxford Un iversity Press. pp. 392-408. 2002. with J.F. Richards. ‘Defining Property Rights in Land in Colonial India: Gorakhpur Region in the Indo Gangetic Plain’. In J. F. Richards (ed.). Land, Property And The Environment . Oakland, California: ICS Press. pp. 235-262. 1994. ‘Growth of Mughal Empire, 1526 -1556’ (Unit 5). In EHI-04: India from 16th to Mid 18th Century . New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University. pp. 5 -17. 1994. ‘Expansion and Consolidation, 1556 -1707’ (Unit 6). In EHI-04: India from 16th to Mid 18th Century. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University. pp. 18 -31.

Research Papers/Articles in Peer -Reviewed Journals 2016/2015. ‘Akbarnama, a Sixteenth Century Chronicle of India’. Indian Horizons (ICCR Publication). Vol. 62. No. 4. pp. 20-29. 2012. ‘Narcotics and Drugs: Pleasure, Intoxication or Simply Therapeutic – North India, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries’. The Medieval History Journal . Vol. 15. No. 1. pp. 103-135. 2008. ‘Forests, Wild Beasts and Supernatural Powers – A Folk Tale from Sunderbans’. Indian Folklife. A Quarterly Newsletter from National Folklore Support Centre. Theme Issue on Folklore and Environment. Serial No. 28. pp. 10-11. 2007. ‘Changing River Courses in North India: Calamities, Bounties, Strategie s – Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries’. The Medieval History Journal . Special Issue: Coping with Natural Disasters in Pre -industrial Societies. Vol. X. Nos. I & II. pp. 183-208. 2006. ‘Visibility Through Resistance: The Malangis and Salt Making in Eighteenth Century Bengal’. The Indian Historical Review. Theme Issue. Adivasis in Colonial India. Vol. XXXIII. No. 1. pp. 24 -43. 2005. ‘Re-Visiting Medieval Indian History’. The Book Review. Education Special. Vol. XXIX. No. 10. pp. 35 -36. 2002. ‘Forests, People and State: Continuities and Changes’. Economic and Political Weekly . Vol. XXXVII. No. 43, October 26-November 1. pp. 4440-4446.

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2002. ‘From Purdah to Politics: Delhi’s Indraprastha College, 1940 -47’. Women’s Link. Theme Issue ‘Women And Political Participation’. Vol. 8 No. 2. pp. 10 -20. 2000. ‘In Defence of Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Education’, Women’s Link. Vol. 6 No. 3. pp. 2931. Also published in Azad Academy Journal, Vol. 26 No. 1, January 2000. 1996. ‘Landed Property Rights in Transition: A note on cultivators and agricultural labourers in Gorakhpur in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’. Studies in History. Vol. 12 No. 2. pp. 243-253. 1993. ‘Perception and Classification of the Rights of the Social C lasses: Gorakhpur and the East India Company in the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century’. Indian Economic and Social History Review. Vol. 30 No. 2. pp. 215237. Also published as ‘Gorakhpur Cedes to East India Company’ in Azad Academy Journal, Vol. 23 No. 10, October 1997. pp. 13-32. 1992. ‘Madad-i Maash and Ma’afi Grants in Gorakhpur during the late eighteenth -early nineteenth century’. Proceedings Indian History Congress , 52nd session. Also published as ‘ Madad-i Maash and Ma’afi Grants’ in Azad Academy Journal, Vol. 14 No.3, March 1998. pp. 17 -22. Review Article 2002. ‘Architecture and Study of History’. Review of Monica Juneja (ed.). 2001. Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Contexts, Histories. South Asian History: Readings and Interpreta tions. New Delhi: Permanent Black. Social Scientist. Vol. 30 Nos. 9-10. pp. 88-91. Book-Reviews July-August 2017. Rajeev Kinra. Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. New Delhi: Primus Books. 2016. The Book Review. Vol. XLI Nos. 7-8. June 2017. Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj. Contestations and Accommodation: Mewat and Meos in Mughal India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2016. The Book Review. Vol. XLI No. 6. October 2015. Yogesh Sharma & Pius Malekandathil (ed.). Cities in Medieval India. New Delhi: Primus Books. 2014. The Book Review. Vol. XXXIX. No. 10, South Asia XXVII. September 2015. Mahesh Rangarajan & K. Sivaramakrishnan (ed.). Shifting Ground: People, Animals, and Mobility in India’s Environmental History . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2014. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. L No. 38. July 2015. Sumbul Halim Khan. Art and Craft Workshops under the Mughals, A Study of Jaipur Karkhanas . New Delhi: Primus Books. 2015. The Book Review. Vol. XXXIX, No. 7. December 2014. Anand Pandian & Daud Ali (eds.). Ethical Life in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2011. The Indian Historical Review. Vol. 41, No. 2. February 2014. Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanya m. Calendar of Persian Correspondence . Vols. I – V. New Delhi: Primus Books. 2013. The Book Review. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2. October 2014. Jean Law de Lauriston. A Memoir of the Mughal Empire, Events of 1757 -1761. Translated from the Original French by G.S. Cheema. New Delhi: Manohar. 2014. The Book Review. Vol. XXXVIII, No.10. October 2013. Milo Cleveland Beach. The Imperial Image, Paintings For The Mughal Court . Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Mapin Publishing (revised and expanded editio n). 2012. The Book Review. Vol. XXXVII, No. 10.

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March 2012. Nandini Sinha Kapur. Environmental History of India – A Reader. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2011. The Book Review. South Asia Special – XIX. Vol. XXXVI No. 3. December 2011. Mahesh Rangarajan & K. Sivaramakrishnan (ed.). India’s Environmental History: A Reader . Vol. I: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. II: Colonialism, Modernity and the Nation. Ranikhet: Permanent Black. 2011. Economic and Political Weekly . Vol. XLVI No. 53. May 2011. Harbans Mukhia. Exploring India’s Medieval Centuries: Essays In History, Society, Culture and Technology. New Delhi: Aakar Books. 2010. The Book Review. Vol. XXXV No. 5. December 2010. Mala Dayal (ed.). Celebrating Delhi. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publishers & Penguin/Viking. 2010. The Book Review. Vol. XXXIV No. 12. February 2010. Fergus Nicoll. Shah Jahan: The Rise And Fall Of The Mughal Emperor, Penguin/Viking, New Delhi, 2009, in The Book Review. South Asia Special – XV, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2. December 2009. Satish Chandra. State, Pluralism and the Indian Historical Tradition . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2008. The Indian Historical Review. Vol. 36 No. 2. August-September 2009. Anne F. Broadbridge. Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. First South Asian Edition. 2009. The Book Review. South Asia Special – XIV. Vol. XXXIII Nos. 8-9. September 2008. Richard M. Eaton. A Social History of the Deccan, 1300 -1761, Eight Indian Lives. The New Cambridge History of India Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. The Book Review. Vol. XXXII No. 9. February 2008. Sunil Kumar. The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192 -1286. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 2007. The Book Review. South Asia Special – XI. Vol. XXXII No. 2. January 2008. Raziuddin Aquil. Sufism, Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2007. The Indian Historical Review. Vol. XXXV No.1. January 2008. Rohan D’Souza. Drowned and Damned: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006. The Book Review. Special Issue: Marginalization/Exclusion/Empowerment. Vol. XXXII No. 1. December 2007. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui. Authority and Kingship under the Sultans of Delhi (Thirteenth – Fourteenth Centuries). New Delhi: Manohar. 2006. The Book Review. Vol. XXXI No. 12. July 2007. M. Athar Ali. Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society, and Culture . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006. The Indian Historical Review. Vol. XXXIV No. 2. March 2007. Margrit Pernau (ed.). The Delhi College: Traditional Elites, The Colonial State, And Education Before 1857. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006. The Book Review. South Asia Special – IX. Vol. XXXI No. 3. October 2006. Dilip Hiro (abridged & edited). Babur Nama: Journal of Emperor Babur . Tr. Annette Susannah Beveridge. New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2006. The Book Review. South Asia Special – VIII. Vol. XXX No. 10. September 2006. Victor Babu. Popular Culture and Religion in Medieval India . New Delhi: Kaveri Books. 2005. The Book Review. Vol. XXX No. 9. August 2006. Lucy Peck. Delhi: A Thousand Years of Building, An INTACH Roli Guide . New Delhi: Lotus Collection, Roli Books. 2005. The Book Review. Vol. XXX No. 8.

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July 2006. Annie Kreiger Krynicki. Captive Princess: Zebunissa, Daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb . Karachi: Oxford University Press. 2005. The Book Review Vol. XXX No. 7. March 2006. R. Nath. Private Life of the Mughals of India, 1526 -1803 A.D. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 2005. The Book Review. Vol. XXX No. 3. August 2005. Thomas R. Trautman. Aryans and British India: New Perspectives on India’s Pasts . New Delhi: Yoda Press. 2004. The Book Review. Vol. XXIX No. 8. April 2005. Manorama Savur. And The Bamboo Flowers in the Indian Forests: What Did The Pulp and Paper Industry Do? New Delhi: Manohar. 2003. The Book Review. Vol. XXIX No. 4. 2004. Antoinette Burton. Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2003. Indian Journal of Gender Studies . Vol. 11 No. 3. October 2004. Rudolf C. Heredia & Shereen Ratnagar (ed.). Mobile and Marginalized Peoples: Perspectives fr om the Past. New Delhi: Manohar. 2003. The Book Review. Vol. XXVIII No. 10. September 2004. Indu Sundaresan. The Feast of Roses. New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2004. The Book Review. Vol. XXVIII No. 9. April 2004. Satish Chandra. Essays in Medieval Indian History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2003. The Book Review. Vol. XXVIII No. 4. 2003. Smita Tewari Jassal. Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh . New Delhi: Manohar. 2001. Indian Journal of Gender Studies . Vol. 10 No. 3. January-February 2004. Maina Chawla Singh. Gender, Religion and “Heathen Lands”: American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860’s-1940’s). Gender, Culture and Global Politics. Vol. 4. New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc. 2000. Biblio: A Review of Books. Vol. IX Nos. 1 & 2. January 2004. Stewart Gordon. Robes of Honour, Khil’at in Pre -colonial and Colonial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002. The Book Review Vol. XXVII No. 1. September 2003. G.S. Cheema. The Forgotten Mughals: A History of th e Later Emperors of the House of Babar, 1707-1857. New Delhi: Manohar. 2002. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 9. September 2003. Irfan Habib (ed.). State and Diplomacy Under Tipu Sultan: Documents and Essays . New Delhi: Tulika. 2001. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 9. September 2003. Barbara D. Metcalf & Thomas R. Metcalf. A Concise History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 9. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 9. May 2003. Zeenut Ziad (ed.). The Magnificent Mughals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 5. February 2003. Rudrangshu Mukherjee. Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 2001. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 2. February 2003. Ravindra K. Jain. Between History and Legend: Status and Power in Bundelkhand . New Delhi: Orient Longman. 2002. The Book Review. Vol. XXVII No. 2. November 2002. Firdos Anwar. Nobility Under the Mughals, 1628 -1658. New Delhi: Manohar. 2001. The Book Review. Vol. XXVI No. 11.

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August 2002. Satish Chandra. Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court, 1707 -1740. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002. The Book Review. Vol. XXVI No. 8. July-December 2001. Muzaffar Alam, Francoise ‘Nalini’ Delvoye, Marc Ga borieau (eds.). The Making of IndoPersian Culture: Indian and French Studies . New Delhi: Manohar and Centre de Sciences Humaines. 2000. The Medieval History Journal. Vol. 4 No.2. March 2002. Arun Agrawal & K. Sivaramakrishnan (ed.). Social Nature: Resources, Representations and Rule in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2001. Economic & Political Weekly . Vol. XXXVII No. 10. September 2001. Muzaffar Alam & Seema Alavi (translated and with an Introduction). A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The Ijaz-i-Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773 -1779), of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2001. The Book Review. Vol. 25 No. 9. May 2001. Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & Lloyd I. Rudolph with Mohan Singh Kanota (ed.). Reversing The Gaze: Amar Singh’s Diary, A Colonial Subject’s Narrative of Imperial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2000. The Book Review. Vol. 26 No. 5. January 2001. Irfan Habib (ed.). Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan. New Delhi: Tulika. 1999. The Book Review. Vol. 25 No. 1. August 2000. John Keay. India: A History. London: HarperCollins. 2000. The Book Review. Vol. 24 No. 8. April 2000. Irfan Habib. The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556 -1707. 2nd revised edition. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1999. The Book Review. Vol. 24 No. 4. Also published in The Hindu. 2 April 2000. March 2000. Michael Mann. British Rule On Indian Soil: North India In The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Manohar. 1999. The Book Review. Vol. 24 No. 3. October-December 1999. Christopher V. Hill. River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770-1994. Michigan: Association for Asian Studies. 1997. Indian Economic and Social History Review. Vol. 36 No. 4. July-December 1999. K.K. Trivedi. Agra: Economic and Political Profile of a Mughal Suba, 1580 -1707. Pune: Ravish Publishers. 1998. Studies in History. Vol. 15 No. 2. Also published in Seminar. No. 474. February 1999. March 1999. Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds.). The Mughal State, 1526-1750. Themes in Indian History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1998. The Book Review. Vol. 23 No. 3. October 1998. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (ed.). Land System and Rural Society in Early India. Readings in Early Indian History. New Delhi: Manohar. 1997. The Medieval History Journal. Vol. 1 No. 2. July-September 1998. Bruce G. Trigger & Wilcomb E. Washburn (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Vol. I. North America. Parts I & II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Indian Economic and Social History Review . Vol. 35 No. 3. September 1998. Chetan Singh. Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalaya, 1800 -1950. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1998. The Book Review. Vol. 22 No.9. July 1996 & January 1997. S.N.R. Rizvi. Atharahvin Sadi Ke Zamindar. New Delhi: Peoples’ Publishing House. 1988. Indian Historical Review. Vol. 23 Nos. 1-2. May-June 1998. Violette Graff (ed.). Lucknow: Memories of a City. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1997. Indian Review of Books. Vol. 7 No. 8. Also published in The Hindu. 17 May 1998.

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September-November 1997. C.A. Bayly. Empire and Information: Intelligence G athering and Social Communication in India, 1780 -1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Indian Review of Books. Vol. 7 No. 1. July 1997. Chitta Panda. The Decline of the Bengal Zamindars: Midnapore, 1870 -1920. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996. The Book Review. Vol. 21 No. 6. December 1996. Xinru Liu. Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, A.D. 600-1200. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996. The Book Review. Vol. 20 No. 12. November 1996. Charlotte Vaudeville. Myths, Saints And Legends in Medieval India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996. Indian Review of Books. Vol. 6 No. 2. January 1996. Hermann Kulke (ed.). The State in India, 1000-1700. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 199 5. The Book Review. Vol. 20 No. 1. March 1995. Iqbal Hussain. The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela Chieftancies in 18th century India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1994. The Book Review. Vol. 19 No. 3. January-March 1995. Veena Sachdeva. Polity and Economy of the Punjab during the Late Eighteenth Century . New Delhi: Manohar. 1993. Indian Economic and Social History Review . Vol. 32 No. 1. June 1994. Stewart Gordon. The Marathas, 1600-1818. The New Cambridge History of India. II.4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. The Book Review. Vol. 18 No. 6. July 1992 & January 1993. J.C. Dua. British Historiography - Eighteenth Century Punjab. New Delhi: Radha Publications. 1992. The Indian Historical Review. Vol. 19 Nos. 1-2. July 1987 & January 1988. G.D. Sharma. Vakil Reports Maharajgan, 1693 -1712. New Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan. 1987. The Indian Historical Review. Vol. 14 Nos. 1-2. February 26, 1984. Vinod Bhatia. Indo-Soviet Relations: Problems and Prospects . New Delhi: Panchsheel Publishers. 1984. New Wave. Vol. 13 No. 29.

Conference Organization/ Presentations

Dates

1. Chairperson & Discussant for the Session on ‘Explor ing Food, Body and Household in the Pre-Colonial Biographies’ at the International Conference on

December 20-21, 2016

‘Cookbooks and Culinary Practices: Food, Body and Identity in India from Medieval to Contemporary Times’ organized by Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi & Japanese Society for the Promotion of Scien ce, Japan. 2. Lecture on ‘The Makings of Sulh-i Kul: Handling Diversity and Heterogeneity’,

November 10, 2016

at Satyawati College (Evening), U niversity of Delhi. 3. Presented a Paper ‘Understanding Some Aspects of Indian Economy and Society: A Glimpse of Eighteenth -Nineteenth Century Sources in the National

March 8-9, 2016

Archives of India’ at a Seminar on ‘Sources of 18th and 19th Century’ organized by National Archives of India, New Delhi to celebrate the 125 years (1891 -2016) of the Archives.

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4. Initiated and Moderated Book Discussion on my co -authored Book entitled Women, Education and Politics: The Women’s Movement and Delhi’s

January 17, 2016

Indraprastha College, New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2005. O rganized by ‘Delhi Heritage Walks’ Book Club, New Delhi at Lodi Gard ens, New Delhi.

5. Chairperson & Discussant for the Session on ‘Revi siting Archives’ at the Workshop on ‘Histories of Rajasthan: Fresh Approaches’, Nehru Memorial

October 14-15, 2015

Museum and Library, New Delhi.

6. Resource Person at UGC-sponsored Refresher Course in Environmental Studies,

December 5, 2014

CPDHE, University of Delhi. Presented a Paper on ‘Debating Environment and Environmentalism: A Historiography’.

7. Resource Person at UGC-sponsored Refresher Course in Environmental Studies,

December 8, 2014

CPDHE, University of Delhi. Presented a Paper on ‘Understanding Environment through the Prism of India’s Forest s: Harappa to Chipko’. 8. Chairperson & Discussant at the Second Annual International Conference on ‘Violence In Indian History’ organized by Archive India Institute, Bangalore, held

November 1, 2013

at University of Delhi. 9. Panelist at a Panel Discussion on ‘The Chall enges facing History and Social Sciences’ organized by Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in association with

October 8, 2013

Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library , New Delhi. 10. Resource Person at the Refresher Course organized by CPDHE, Universi ty of

September 27, 2012

Delhi. Presented a Paper on ‘Challenges and Resistances to Patriarchal Norms: Caste, Class, Gender; Profiling Women’s Movement and Delhi University’s Indraprastha College’. 11. Discussant for the Paper on ‘Nature, Social Stratification and Marginali zation

May 5, 2012

in Rajasthan, 1650-1850 C.E.’ at a Workshop on ‘Environments and Histories’, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. 12. Presented a Paper on ‘Ecology and Settlements of Delhi’ at a Workshop on

May 3, 2012

‘Three World Heritage Sites of Delhi’ organized by INTACH, New Delhi & Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

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13. Discussant for a Session on ‘Sovereignty and Political Culture’ at a National Conference on ‘Revisiting the ‘Eighteenth Century’ in Indian History’ organized

March 21, 2012

by DRS-SAP Programme, Department of History and Culture, Jamia Milia Isla mia, New Delhi. 14. Coordinated a two day workshop on ‘Environmental Issues in India’, organized by Institute of Life Long Learning, Department of History, University of Delhi and

March 16-17, 2012

Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. 15. Presented a Paper on ‘Ecology and Settlements of Delhi’ at a Workshop on ‘World Heritage Sites of Delhi, Qutb Minar, Humayun’s Tomb, Red Fort’,

December 12-16, 2011

organized by INTACH, New Delhi & Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. 16. Presented a Paper on ‘Understanding Environment: Through the Prism of Forests, Sixteenth to early Nineteenth Centuries’, at a Refresher Course in History,

September 15, 2011

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 17. Chairperson for the session on ‘Histories’ at the works hop of ‘Ecology & Society Network’ organized by Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU;

April 9, 2011

Department of History, University of Delhi; Ambedkar University, New Delhi and WWF at WWF, New Delhi. 18. Presented a Paper on ‘Pioneering Women Empowerment: Educat ion, Politics, Freedom, A Case of Delhi’s Indraprastha College’ at a Seminar on ‘Education as a

April 6, 2011

Site of Contestation’ organized by the Department of Political Science, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. 19. Discussant for the Session on ‘State Mak ing and Ecologies of Place’ at the International Workshop on ‘Livelihoods and the Environment: Debating

October 15-16, 2009

Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ organized by Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU; Department of History, University of Delhi and Department of His tory, Uppsala University, Sweden at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New D elhi. 20. Presented a Paper on ‘Rivers: Environmental Hazards or Boon, Examples from Indian History, 16th-19th Centuries’ at an International Workshop on ‘Environmental Histories: Pas t and Present’ organized by the Department of

November 22, 2008

History, University of Delhi and Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden at Department of History, Universi ty of Delhi.

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21. Chairperson for the session on ‘Medieval Delhi’ at the Seminar on ‘Delhi : Images, Imaginations and Perceptions’ organized by Kamla Nehru College,

December 4-5, 2007

University of Delhi, New Delhi. 22. Presented a Paper on ‘Changing River Courses in North India: Calamities, Bounties, Strategies, 16th to early 19th centuries’ at a n International Conference on

September 7-9, 2006

‘Natural Disasters and Pre -Modern Societies’, Historisches Seminar, Universi tat Zurich. 23. Discussant for the Paper ‘Water, State and Society in Pre -Colonial Rajasthan’ at an International Workshop on ‘Nature in the Raj: Colonial Environmen ts and Indigenous Knowledge’, organized by Centre for Studies in Science Policy

August 18-19, 2006

(CSSP), JNU, Centre for World Environmental History (CWEH), Sussex University, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) , New Delhi. 24. Delivered a Lecture on ‘State, Kingship and Governance in Medieval India’, organized by Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and History (INTAC H), New

March 12, 2005

Delhi. 25. Resource Person at the Training Program on ‘Women and Education’

August 20-22, 2002

organized by Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Presented a paper on ‘Resistance within Resistance: Towards Women’s Education’. 26. Resource Person at the Refresher Course for College and University teachers at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. Presented a Paper on ‘Identity, Ideology and the

November 28, 2001

State: Forests and Forestry in a Region of Awadh during the transition from the late Mughals to the East India Company’. 27. Delivered an Extension Lecture on ‘Forests, People and the State: A Region of

April 3, 2001

Awadh in the Eighteenth Century’ at the Centre For Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 28. Resource Person at the Refresher Course for College and University teachers at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. Presented a Paper on ‘Invention of Tradition:

November 16, 2000

Land Property Rights in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuri es – a case study of the region of Gorakhpur’. 29. Panelist at the Platinum Jubilee Seminar organized by Indraprastha College, University of Delhi on ‘Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Education

April 1-2, 1999

Policy: Challenges And Responses’ a t India International Centre, New Delhi.

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30. Presented a Paper on ‘Agricultural Technology and Patterns of Exchange: A Study of Central Asia and its Interaction with India, tenth - eighteenth centuries’ at a Seminar on ‘India’s Interaction With China, Central And West A sia’ sponsored

February 5-7, 1999

by Project of History of Indian Science, Philosop hy And Culture’ at New Delhi. 31. Chair & Discussant for the Session on ‘Sufism and Music’ at a Seminar on ‘India’s Interaction With China, Central And West Asia’ sponsored by Project of

February 5-7, 1999

History of Indian Science, Philosophy And Culture’ at New Delhi. 32. Participated in a Workshop on ‘Property Rights in Land and Sustainable

July 1997

Development in Mountain Societies’ at Kathmandu, Nepal. 33. Participated in a Workshop on ‘History of India (upto c. A .D. 1200)’ under the

April 1997

Special Assistance Program conducted by the Department of History, Uni versity of Delhi. 34. Paper entitled ‘Property Rights and Economic Growth in Colonial Gorakhpur’ presented jointly with Prof. John F. Richards at Duke University, D urham, North

June 1-3, 1995

Carolina, USA, at the First Open Meeting of ‘Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community’ at Duke University, Durham, Nor th Carolina, USA. 35. Paper entitled ‘Property Rights in Gorakhpur’ presented jointly with Prof. John

August 1994

F. Richards at a Conference on ‘Landed Property Rights and Global Environmental Change’ at Stowe, Vermont, USA. 36. Paper entitled ‘Madad-i Ma’ash and Ma’afi Grants in Gorakhpur during the Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century’ presented at the 52nd session , Indian

February 1992

History Congress, New Delhi. 37. Attended a course on ‘American Culture and Civilization’ sponsored by The United States Educational Foundation In India, New Delhi at American Studies

April 1987

Research Centre, Hyderabad .

Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration) 1. Worked for the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture. Contributed an article on ‘Agricultural Technology - exchanges between India and Central Asia, tenth to th e eighteenth centuries’ to one of its volume on India’s Interaction with China, Central Asia and West Asia , published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002.

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2. Worked for the Project ‘Landed Property Rights and Global Environmental Change’ in colla boration with Prof. John F. Richards of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, sponsored by National Science Foundation, USA and Ford Foundation, USA. In connection with this project, participated and presented a paper jointly with Prof. John F. Richards on ‘Property Rights in Gorakhpur’ at a Conference on ‘Landed Property Rights and Global Environmental Change’ at Stowe, Vermont, USA in August 1994. Again as a part of this project, participated in the second meeting of the project in May 1995 at D uke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA and presented a paper jointly with Prof. John F. Richards entitled ‘Property Rights and Economic Growth in Colonial Gorakhpur’ at the First Open Meeting of ‘Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Communi ty’ at Duke University, Durham, USA, in June 1995. Again as a part of this project, participated in a workshop on ‘Property Rights in Land and Sustainable Development in Mountain Societies’ at Kathmandu, Nepal, in July 1997. The proceedings of this proje ct have been published in a volume edited by John F. Richards entitled Land, Property and the Environment by ICS Press, Oakland, California, 2002. 3. Worked for the Project ‘Non -Broadcast Video Model Course Material in History’ in 1994 - 1995. The Project was sponsored by University Grants Commission, New Delhi. As a part of this project, wrote and delivered the following lectures in December 1994 and January 1995 which were recorded and filmed at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. (a) Unit 32 - Intellectual , Religious and Scientific Changes * Rationalism in art, literature and philosophy during the 18th century (b) Unit 33 - Economic Changes in Europe * The Industrial Revolution: Causes, Course and Consequences * The Economic Crisis between the two World Wa rs * The Socialist Movement in Europe - 1815-1917 * Industrial Revolution in England (c) Unit 60 - Rise and Growth of Parliamentary Democracy * Whig Supremacy - Sir Robert Walpole * George III and his Personal Rule * Prime Ministership of Pitt the Younge r * Reform Act 1832, 1867, 1884 * Reform Act 1911, 1918, 1928

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Awards and Distinctions *Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Delhi, 2009. *Charles Wallace (India) Trust Post -doctoral Research Grant, May-June 2003. *Stay-in-and-Maintenance Grant from the British Council, New Delhi, July-August 1994. *Research Grant from Social Science Research Council, New York, July -August 1994. *Research Associate of Prof. John F. Richards, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, 2002 -2005 on the project ‘Opium Politics in India’.

Association With Professional Bodies Peer Review for Research Articles and Manuscripts for national and international Journals and Pub lishing Houses.

Other Activities Examinations: Actively associated with the Examinations of University of Delhi as Examiner, Head Examiner and Convener for different Papers of B.A. Hons. History, B.A. Hons. Concurrent and Discipline Courses, B.A. Programme, History Discipline, B.A. Programme, Skill Enhancement Cour se, 1988 to present. Paper Setter and Examiner for a Paper in M.A. (History), 1989 -2009. History Curriculum: Special Invitee, Courses Committee, Department of History, University of Delhi, 2015 -2016. Member, Syllabus Restructuring Committee for C BCS, Department of History, University of Delhi, 2015 -16. Convener, Syllabus Restructuring Committee for CBCS Two Papers on History of USA, c. 1776-1945, Department of History, University of Delhi, 2015 -16. Member of the Group of Writers for the Instit ute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi for the Department of History; Convener, Paper V (a) History of USA, c. 1776-1945; One of the Writer for Paper VI, History of India, c. 1550s-1750s, 2007-2009. Consultant, State Council for Educational Resea rch and Training, New Delhi, for books on History, 2003 -2004. (In the Team of Authors for the State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT), New Delhi, for books on History for schools, published in 2004). Sub-committee member for three B. A. History Honours Courses taught in the University of Delhi i.e. History of India, c. 750-1550, History of India, c. 1550-1761, History of USA, c. 1776-1945 (also the Convener for this Paper), 2000-2002. The New Syllabus was implemented in the academic ye ar 2002-2003. Participated in the History Draft Curriculum of National Open School, New Delhi. As a part of this Project, wrote Units I and II on ‘Medieval Europe’ for the module ‘Transitions from Medieval to Modern Europe’. Member and Writer in a UGC-sponsored Project ‘Non-Broadcast Video Model Course Material in History’, 1994 – 1995.

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Academic Committees Special Invitee, Courses Committee, Department of History, University of Delhi, 2015 -2016. Member, Syllabus Restructuring Committee for CBCS, Depar tment of History, University of Delhi, 2015 -16. Convener, Syllabus Restructuring Committee for CBCS Two Papers on History of USA, c. 1776-1945, Department of History, University of Delhi, 2015 -16. Member, Steering Committee of the College, NAAC, 2014 -2016. Member, IQAC, 2016 till date. Member, Board of Research Studies, University of Delhi, 2015 -2016. Member, Department Research Council, University of Delhi, 2014 -16. Member, Book Selection Committee, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 2011 - 2013.

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