Meenakshi Khanna Department of History

Research & Publications of Meenakshi Khanna Edited Book Cultural History of Medieval India, New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007. ISBN 978-8- 18735- 830-5/8-18735-830-0. Hindi translation by Umashankar Sharma ‘Rishi’ titled Madhyakalin Bharat ka Sanskritic Itihas, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2012. ISBN 978 81 250 4698.

Co-authored Book Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, co-authored with Mandira Mitra, Delhi Bureau of Textbooks: State Council for Education Research & Training (SCERT), 2004, revised edition 2005; Directorate of Education, Delhi Government, (DBT) - I VII(62)-04.

Book Chapters 1. “The Visionaries of a Ṭarīqa: the Uwaysī Sufis of Shāhjahānābād” in Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies, eds. Alexander S. Knysh & Ozgen Felek, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 273-296, February 2012; ISBN 978-1-4384-3993-8. 2. “Religious Histories: Bhakti-Sufi Traditions” in Themes in Indian History Part II, ed. Shveta Uppal. NCERT, May 2007, pp. 140-169; ISBN 81-7450-753-3. 3. “Introduction” in Cultural History of Medieval India, ed. Meenakshi Khanna, New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007 (2nd reprint 2012); pp. ix-xxxiv; ISBN978-8-18735-830-5/818735-830-0. 4. “Asar us Sanadid, Sayyid Ahmad Khan”, annotated translation from the original Urdu text in Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Contexts & Histories, ed. Monica Juneja, New Delhi: Permanent Black pp. 109-119; 2001; ISBN 81-7824-010-6. 5. “Dilli mein sultan bane” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, co-authored by Meenakshi Khanna & Mandira Mitra, Delhi Bureau of Textbooks, State Council for Education Research & Training (SCERT), Directorate of Education, Delhi Govt, (DBT) - I VII(62)-04. 6. “Sultanon ki sena aur shasan pranali” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 37-45; 2004, revised edition 2005. 7. “Uttar Bharat: Vyapar, Shehar aur Gramin shetron mein badlav” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 46-57. 8. “Sufi, Bhakti aur naye sanskritic ayam” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 58-68. 9. “Dakshin Bharat: Sultan, Rai aur Vyapari” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 69-78.

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10.“Mughal samrajya ki sthapna” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT,pp.79-89 11. “Jahangir aur Shah Jahan (1605-1658)” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 90-95. 12. “Mughal samrajya ki samasyaen” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 96-106. 13. “Mughal samrajya mein raj path aur prashasan” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp.105-111. 14. “Bade shahr, naye vyapari aur gramin shetron mein pariwartan” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp. 112-121. 15. “Sanskritic vikas” in Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, Bharat Ka Itihas Bhag II, SCERT, pp.122131.

Book Reviews in Peer Reviewed Journals 1. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, ed, Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture, Volume I, Delhi: Manohar, 2003, Studies in History, 2006. 2. Andrew Harvey, Love’s Glory: Re-creations of Rumi, Delhi: Viking, 2002, in The Book Review, vol. 26/12, 2002. 3. Desiderio Pinto, Piri-Muridi Relationship: A Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah, New Delhi: Manohar, 1995, The Economic and Social History Review, vol. 35/3, 1998, (pp. 350-351). 4. Shaun Marmon, Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society, New York: OUP, 1995 in The Medieval History Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 1998, (pp. 326-331). 5. Abdul Latif, The Muslim Mystic Movement in Bengal, 1301-1550, Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi, 1993, in Studies in History, vol. 13/1, 1997, (pp. 159-165). 6. George Michell, Architecture and Art of Southern India. Vijayanagara and the Successor States, NCHI I: 6, Cambridge: CUP, 1995, The Book Review, 1996.

Papers presented in National & International Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops etc. i. “Reading Sufi Dream Texts as Source of Cultural History”, at an International Seminar on Context and Scope of Persian Writings as Important Sources of History organized by the Persian Research Institute, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 11-13 March 2015. ii. “Intellectual and religious aspects of Shah Jahan’s reign” at an International Workshop on The Mughal Empire under Shah Jahan (1628–58): New trends of research organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 26-27 May 2014. 2

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iii. Paper Presentation: “Sthapit manyatayen aur vivad: Madhyakal aur samkalin prashn” at a National Seminar Madhyakal aur samkalin prashn organized by the Motilal Nehru College, DU, 25-26 March 2014. iv. "Reading the Malfūzāt-i Khwāja Uwais Qaranī: A Comment on the relevance of the Uwaisī nisbat in the Seventeenth Century" at an International Seminar on Malfuzat of Sufis of India - A Source of Indian History and Culture organized by the Rampur Raza Library, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, 24-26 October 2013. v. “Notes on the Khwāb u khayāl: An Unpublished Dream Treatise of Shaikh Pīr Muḥammad Lakhnawī” at a National Seminar on The Reign of Shahjahan at Aligarh Muslim University, 30-31 March 2013. vi. "The Significance of Dream Narratives in the Malfuz literature during 16th to 18th centuries" at the International Seminar on Sources of Indian History & Culture at the Rampur Raza Library, 2-4 November 2012. vii.“Syncretism or Acculturation? Situating Hindu gods in Sufi narratives from Mughal North India during the 17th & 18th Centuries" at the Department of Islamic Studies, IOA Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn in Germany in July 2011. viii. “The Kashf al Mahjub and the Inception of the Indo-Muslim Identity” in International Seminar on Shaikh Ali Hujveri: His Life and Contributions organized by Faculty of Humanities & Languages at the Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with the ICCR, the Urdu Academy, and the Embassies of Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey at New Delhi, 5-7 December 2010. ix. “Dreams and Visions in the North Indian Sufic Traditions” in the First Asian Philosophy Congress organized by the Indian Council for Philosophical Research in collaboration with the MHRD and the UNESCO office, New Delhi at JNU, 6-9 March 2010. x. “The Visionaries of a ṭarīqa: The Uwaysī Sufis of Shāhjahānābād” at International Conference on Dreams in Islamic Societies organized by the CMENAS University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2-4 April 2009. xi. “The dreams of Khuda Bakhsh and the story of the Oriental Public Library in Patna” in Department of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg, June 2009. xii. “Communicating Wilayat through dreams: Notes from the hagiography of an Uwaisi Shaikh” in Department of Islamic studies, Institut für Orient und Asienwissenschaften, University of Bonn, April 2009. xiii.“Dreams of an Uwaisi Sufi in Aurangzeb’s Shahjahanabad” in Middle East Studies Association 42nd Annual Conference, Washington D.C. 24th November 2008. xiv. "Dreams and Visions of an Uwaisi Sufi" South Asia Colloquium, under the aegis of the Triangle South Asia Consortium, 4th December 2006, Chapel Hill. xv. Two lectures on "Education System in India" at an International Conference Best Practices in Education from Around the World hosted by World-View An international Program for Educators, 24-26 October, 2006, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. xvi. “The Chishti Sufis at Delhi” a talk at Institut fur Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Sudasiens in Julius Maximilians Universitat, Wurzburg, Germany, 18 December 2006.

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xvii. “The Dreams and Visions of a Sufi in the 17th Century Shahjahanabad” Seminar in the Department of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany, 19 December 2006. xviii. “Reading the Uwaisi motif in the dreams of a seventeenth century Sufi of Shahjahanabad” a paper presented at an International Conference on Sufism: Sufi Traditions, Philosophy and Poetry organized by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature on 18 -20 March 2006. xix. “Dreams of a 17th Century Delhi Sufi” a paper presented at Dilli Jo Kal Tha, Aur Hoga/Delhi-That Once Was, and Will Be…An Interdisciplinary seminar on researching and thinking about Delhi organized by History Department of the Delhi University and SARAI (CSDS) on 27 & 28 February 2006. xx. “Contemplating the History of a Silsila: An Uwaisi text from the late Eighteenth Century Punjab” presented at an International Seminar on The Role of Sufis in the Making of Medieval Punjab organized by Department of History, Punjab University, Chandigarh & Iran Culture House, New Delhi, at Chandigarh on 13 & 14 December 2005. xxi. “Reading the Lataif-i nafisiya dar fazail-i Uwaisiya of Ahmad Chenabi” a paper presented at the National Seminar on Sufi and Bhakti Movements in Medieval India at the Aligarh Muslim University, 13-15 January 2004. xxii. “Contemplating the History of a Silsila: An Uwaisi Handbook of the late Eighteenth Century” a paper presented at the International Conference of Indic Religious Traditions organized by the CSDS and IIC at New Delhi, 19-21 December, 2003. xxiii. “The Concept of Wilayat in the Sufism of Hakim Tirmizi” a paper presented at the National Seminar on Irfan and Tasawwuf organized by the Iran Culture House, New Delhi, 6-7 December 2003. xxiv. “The Biography of a Sufi: Reading the Malfuzat-i Saiyid Hasan Rrasulnuma” a paper presented at the National Seminar on Biography as History: Indian Perspectives organized by the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 27-28 February, 2003.

Lectures delivered at International Universities i. “Reflecting on dreams & imagination in a sufi text from seventeenth century Lakhnau” in the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany, 2 June, 2014. ii. “Dreams, Visions and Other Realities in South Asian Sufism” in Department of Indology, Institut für Orient und Asienwissenschaften, University of Bonn, 28th May 2009. iii. “Sufis and the Sultans of Delhi: An Overview of Historigraphical Concerns” in Department of Islamic Studies, Institut für Orient und Asienwissenschaften, University of Bonn, April 2009. iv. “Some Political & Religious Concerns of the Mughal Emperors in India” in Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 7 April 2009.

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v. “Dreaming in Sufi Hagiographical Traditions: The Case of the Uwaisis of Shahjahanabad” in the Department of Modern Indology at South Asia Institute at University of Heidelberg, 25th June 2008. vi. “Approaches to the Study of South Asian Sufism” in the Department of History at South Asia Institute at University of Heidelberg, 27th June 2008. vii. “Historiographical Approaches to the Study of Indian Sufism” in the Department of Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn, 9th July 2008. viii. “Dreaming in Sufi Traditions: The Case of an Uwaisi in 17th Century Shahjahanabad” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions at Berlin, 22nd July 2008. ix. “Evolution of Urdu Language in the Indian Subcontinent – A Historical Perspective” at the Lehrstuhl Iranistik, University of Bamberg, 19th May 2008. x. “The Normative Pattern of Urdu Ghazal and an Exception to the Norm” at the Lehrstuhl Iranistik, University of Bamberg, 2nd June 2008. xi. "Sufism in South Asia" a public lecture at Georgia Southern Museum, Georgia Southern University, Statesborough, 9th November 2006.

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“Medieval Society through Travellers Accounts with special reference to Alberuni, Ibn Batuta and Bernier” two lectures delivered at In-Service Course for Post Graduate Teachers in History, 24 December, 2015. 2. “Bhakti and Sufi Traditions in India” two lectures delivered at In-Service Course for Post Graduate Teachers in History organized by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, 6 June, 2015. 3. Revisited - Humanyun’s Tomb, a documentary by Agha Khan Trust & the Discovery Channel interviewed on 9 June, 2015. ‘Gulbadan Bano Begum ka ‘Tazkirah-i ahwal-i Babur wa Humanyun’” this being an introduction to the ‘Humanyun nama’ on the occasion of release of the Hindi translation of Humanyun nama by Rampur Raza Library at Humanyun’s Tomb, 28 February, 2015. “The many cities of Delhi” at the Orientation of Fulbright-Nehru English Teaching Assistants organized by the United States India Education Foundation, New Delhi, 3 July 2014. “Bharat mein Sufivad ke itihasik adhyayan ke chand ayam” lecture for EAL students organized by Centre for Historical Studies & Equal opportunity Office at CHS, JNU 22 March 2012. Delivered a lecture for Workshop for TGTs & PGTs of Social Sciences for all the Navyug Schools in Delhi at Navyug Public School, Peshwa road, New Delhi, 24 May2012. "An Introduction to the main trends in Sufi Studies", two lectures at 33rd Refresher Course for History by Academic Staff College, JNU, 25 September 2013. “Sufism and State in Medieval India”, two lectures at 24th Refresher Course in History organized by Academic Staff College, JNU, 14 September 2005.

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“Tracing the Historiography of State in Medieval India ca. (1200-1800) A.D with special Reference to Persian Sources”, two lectures at the 23rd Refresher Course in History organized by the Academic Staff College, JNU, in February 2005. “Some Comments on the Approaches to the Study of Sufism in the Indian Subcontinent” at the 22nd Refresher Course in History organized by ASC, JNU, October 2004. “Sufism in South Asia” at 49th Orientation Course in Social Sciences by ASC at JNU, 5 November, 2004. “Some Aspects of Sufism” at 17th Refresher Course in History by ASC at JNU, 4 February 2002. “Many Meanings of Sufism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism” at the 42nd Orientation Course in Social Sciences organized by the ASC, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in April 2002. “The State and Sufism in Medieval India”, lecture delivered at a workshop called “Celebrating Syncretism; Sufism in India” organized by the Jesus and Mary College of the University of Delhi & the Indian Council for Historical Research in December 2004. Introduced new history textbooks published in April 2004 by the SCERT, 2 sessions for teachers and researchers at a workshop organized by the SCERT in December 2004. “A Review of the Current trends in the Historiography of Medieval Indian History” a lecture delivered for the government schoolteachers at the State Council for Education Research & Training, Government of Delhi in July 2004. “Muslim Perceptions of the Jesuit Padris at the Court of Akbar as cited in Abul Fazl’s Akbarnama” at Vidyajyoti, College of Theology, Delhi, October 2001.

Participation in Workshops/Conferences as discussant, chair i. Discussant for a session, ‘Scripting Power’ at an International Conference Pathways in History: Exploring Connections across Space & Time, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, 57 February, 2014. ii. Discussant for 'Approaching religion & caste before colonialism: Case Studies & Beyond' at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, 28 July 2012. iii. Invited as resource person for 2010-11 Fulbright Mentoring Program by USIEF, 2009. iv. Chair for ‘Vidvatva’ Lecture on Bona Bibi tradition in Sundarbans by Dr. Sufia uddin visiting Fulbright lecturer to India organized by the USEFI & KRI Foundation on 5th July 2006. iv. Chair and discussant at Seminar on Sufism & Communal Harmony organized by Jamia Millia Islamia & Sadbhav Mission on October 2005.

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