Title Prof. First Name CHARU Last Name GUPTA
Designation Senior Professor
Department Department of History
Email cgupta@history.du.ac.in
Webpage
Phone.no 011-27666659
Employement Info
Employee Type Nature Of Employment
Teaching Permanent
Educational
Degree/Certification Institution Year
Ph.D. - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2000
M.Phil. History Department, University of Delhi 1991
PG Miranda House, University of Delhi 1987
UG Miranda House, University of Delhi 1985
Qualifications
Examination Name Conducted By Date of Passing
NET University Grants Commission 1991-01-04
NET University Grants Commission 1989-12-24
Fellowship
Fellowship Name Fellowship Body Level
Nehru Memorial Museum & Library Fellowship NMML National
South Asia Regional Fellowship Social Science Research Council, USA International
ASIA Fellow Asian Scholarship Foundation, Thailand International
Honorary Research Fellow Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL, London International
Commonwealth Scholarship Commonwealth, UK, for PhD International
South Asian Visiting Scholar Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford International
Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago International
Distinguished Visiting Scholar-in-Residence Rutgers University International
Teaching experience inside the Institution
Designation Institution Duration From Duration To
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor University of Delhi 1992-12-22 2009-10-19
Visiting Professor and ICCR Chair Institute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna 2017-03-31 2017-06-30
Administrative experience within Institution
Designation Institution Name Duration from Duration to
Teacher-in-Charge, History Department, South Campus University of Delhi 2020-12-31 2022-06-24
Research Guidance
PhD scholars under Supervision Awarded PhD Submitted
7 6
M.Phil Scholars – Under Supervision Awarded Degree Submitted
8
Research Publications
Article Name Publication Type Journal Name ISSN No Volume Year URL DOI
‘Hindu Communism’: Satyabhakta, Apocalypses and Utopian Ram Rajya Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals The Indian Economic and Social History Review 0019-4646 [Print]; 0973-0893 [Online] 58 (2) 2021 10.1177/0019464621997877

Vernacular Sexology from the Margins: A Woman and a Shudra Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 0085-6401 [Print]; 1479-0270 [Online] 43 (6) 2020 10.1080/00856401.2020.1824426

Women, Gender and Sexuality: Changing Historiographies of Colonial India – A Bibliographical Essay Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Studies in People’s History 2348-4489 [Print]; 2349-7718 [Online] 7 (2) 2020 10.1177/2348448920951548

Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: The Writings of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’ Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 0085-6401 [Print]; 1479-0270 [Online] 43 (5) 2020 10.1080/00856401.2020.1789314

Introduction: Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 0085-6401 [Print]; 1479-0270 [Online] 43 (5) 2020 10.1080/00856401.2020.1786788

Malleability of the Vernacular: Personal Anecdotes Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals South Asian Review 0275-9527 [Print]; 2573-9476 [Online] 41 (2) 2020 10.1080/02759527.2020.1725223

Cast(e)ing and Translating Sex in the Vernacular: The Writings of Santram BA in Hindi Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Porn Studies 2326-8743 [Print]; 2326-8751 [Online] 7 (1) 2019 10.1080/23268743.2018.1535280

Domestic Anxieties, Recalcitrant Intimacies: Representation of Servants in Hindi Print Culture of Colonial India Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Studies in History 0257-6430 [Print]; 0973-080X [Online] 34 (2) 2018 10.1177/0257643018762939

Allegories of ‘Love Jihad’ and Ghar Vapasi: Interlocking the Socio-Religious with the Political Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Archiv Orientalni: Journal of African and Asian Studies 0044-8699 84 (2) 2016 10.4324/9780429506321-4

Dalit Women as Victims: Iconographies of Suffering, Sympathy and Subservience Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals South Asian History and Culture 1947-2498 [Print]; ISSN: 1947-2501 [Online] 7 (1) 2016 10.1080/19472498.2015.1109306

‘Innocent’ Victims/ ‘Guilty’ Migrants: Hindi Public Sphere, Caste and Indentured Women in Colonial North India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Modern Asian Studies 0026-749X [Print]; 1469-8099 [Online] 49 (5) 2015 10.1017/S0026749X14000031

Embodying Resistance: Representing Dalits in Colonial India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 0085-6401 [Print]; 1479-0270 [Online] 38 (1) 2015 10.1080/00856401.2014.987193

Intimate Desires: Dalit Women and Religious Conversions in Colonial India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals The Journal of Asian Studies 0021-9118 [Print]; 1752-0401 [Online] 73 (3) 2014 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814000400

दलित वीरांगना और 1857 का वैकल्पिक इतिहास: भारतीय समाजशास्त्र में एक उपेक्षित तथ्य Research Papers in Care Listed Journals Bhartiya Samajshastra Sameeksha 2349-1396 [Print]; 2632-6744 [Online] 7 (2) 2020 DOI: 10.1177/2349139620953928

‘Fashioning’ Swadeshi: Clothing Women in Colonial North India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Economic and Political Weekly 0012-9976 [Print]; 2349-8846 [Online] 47 (42) 2012 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41720275

Writing Sex and Sexuality: Archives of Colonial North India Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Journal of Women’s History 1042-7961 [Print]; 1527-2036 [Online] 23 (4) 2011 doi:10.1353/jowh.2011.0050

Anxious Hindu Masculinities in Colonial North India: Shuddhi and Sangathan Movements Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals CrossCurrents 0011-1953 [Print]; 1939-3881 [Online] 61 (4) 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-3881.2011.00194.x

Feminine, Criminal or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities in Colonial North India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals The Indian Economic and Social History Review 0019-4646 [Print]; 0973-0893 [Online] XLVII (3), July-September 2010 https://doi.org/10.1177/001946461004700302

(Mis) Representing the Dalit Woman: Reification of Caste and Gender Stereotypes in the Hindi Didactic Literature of Colonial North India Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals The Indian Historical Review 0376-9836 [Print]; 0975-5977 [Online] 35 (2) 2008 https://doi.org/10.1177/037698360803500206

Editorial: Rethinking South Asian Diaspora Studies Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Cultural Dynamics 0921-3740 [Print]; 1461-7048 [Online] 19 (2/3) 2007 https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374007080288

Bonded Bodies: Coastal Fisherfolk, Everyday Migrations, and National Anxieties in India and Sri Lanka Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Cultural Dynamics 0921-3740 [Print]; 1461-7048 [Online] 19 (2/3) 2007 https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374007080293

Dalit ‘Viranganas’ and Reinvention of 1857 Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Economic and Political Weekly 0012-9976 [Print]; 2349-8846 [Online] 42 (19) 2007 https://www.epw.in/journal/2007/19/1857-special-issues-specials/dalit-viranganas-and-reinvention-1857.html

Procreation and Pleasure: Writings of a Woman Ayurvedic Practitioner in Colonial North India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Studies in History 0257-6430 [Print]; 0973-080X [Online] 21 (1) 2005 https://doi.org/10.1177/025764300502100102

Blurred Borders: Coastal Conflicts between India and Pakistan Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Economic and Political Weekly 0012-9976 [Print]; 2349-8846 [Online] 39 (27) 2004 https://www.epw.in/journal/2004/27/special-articles/blurred-borders.html

(Im)possible Love and Sexual Pleasure in Late-Colonial North India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Modern Asian Studies 0026-749X [Print]; 1469-8099 [Print] 36 (1) 2002 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X02001063

Hindu Women, Muslim Men: Cleavages in Shared Spaces of Everyday Life, United Provinces, c. 1890-1930 Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals The Indian Economic and Social History Review 0019-4646 [Print]; 0973-0893 [Online] 37 (2) 2000 https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460003700201

Contests about Obscenity in Late Colonial North India Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals South Asia Research 0262-7280 [Print]; 1741-3141 [Online] 20 (2) 2000 https://doi.org/10.1177/026272800002000202

Articulating Hindu Masculinity and Femininity: ‘Shuddhi’ and ‘Sangathan’ Movements in United Provinces in the 1920s Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Economic and Political Weekly 0012-9976 [Print]; 2349-8846 [Online] 33 (13) 1998 https://www.epw.in/journal/1998/13/special-articles/articulating-hindu-masculinity-and-femininity-shuddhi-and-sangathan

Communal Constructions: Media Reality vs. Real Reality Research Papers in Web of Science Listed Journals Race and Class 0306-3968 [Print]; 1741-3125 [Online] 38 (1) 1996 https://doi.org/10.1177/030639689603800101

Portrayal of Women in Premchand’s Stories: A Critique Research Papers in UGC listed Journals Social Scientist 0970-0293 19 (5-6) 1991 https://doi.org/10.2307/3517875

Politics of Gender: Women in Nazi Germany Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Economic and Political Weekly 0012-9976 [Print]; 2349-8846 [Online] 26 (17) 1991 https://www.epw.in/journal/1991/17/review-womens-studies-review-issues-specials/politics-gender-women-nazi-germany.html

‘Paavan Pidita: Hindi Print, Savarna Sudhaarvaadi aur Dalit Stri [‘Holy’ Victim: Hindi Print, Upper-Caste Reformers and Dalit Woman]. Research Papers in Care Listed Journals Tadbhav 42 2020
Kajrari ‘Kulta’: Hindi Print, Savarna Lekhan aur Dalit Stree ka (Ku)Chitran [Hindi Print, Dominant Caste Writing and (Mis)Representation of Dalit Women]. Research Papers in Care Listed Journals Tadbhav 39 2019 http://www.tadbhav.in/images/Tadbhav-ank-39.pdf

Rehbar Se Apni Rah Juda: Santram, Jati aur Ling [Santram, Caste and Gender]. Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals Pratiman: Samay, Samaj, Sanskriti 2320-8201 6 (1/2) 2018
Speaking Self, Writing Caste: Recovering the Life of Santram BA Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 0162-4962[Print]; 1529-1456 [Online] 40 (1) 2017 10.1353/bio.2017.0001

‘My Birth is My Fatal Accident’: Introduction to Caste and Life Narratives Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 0162-4962 [Print]; 1529-1456 [Online] 40 (1) 2017 10.1353/bio.2017.0000

Self-Fashioning of a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Muscular Asceticism and Sectarian Freedom in Swami Satyadev Parivrajak’s Autobiography Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Studies in History 0257-6430 [Print]; 0973-080X [Online] 2023 10.1177/02576430231162267

Vernacular Communism: ‘Marginal’ History of Satyabhakta Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Economic and Political Weekly 0012-9976 [Print]; 2349-8846 [Online] 56 (23) 2021 journal/2021/23/special-articles/vernacular-communism.html

Disease and the Untouchable: Insights from Vernacular Histories of North India Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Studies in People’s History 2349-7718 10 (2) 2023 https://doi.org/10.1177/23484489231199026

Publications other than journal articles
Title of Publication Type of Publication Publisher Role in Publication ISBN Number Year URL Level
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia. Edited/Translated Books New York: Routledge Co-Editor 9781032067254 2021 International
Indentured Women and Hindi Print-Public Sphere in Early Twentieth Century India. In Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture Chapters in Books London: Routledge & Delhi: Manohar Author 9780367676230 [hardback]; 9781003132219 [eBook] 2021 International
Introduction: Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India. In Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India, ed. Amitava Chatterjee Chapters in Books Delhi: Primus Books Author 978-93-89850-00-0 [hardback]; 978-93-8950-01-7 [POD] 2020 National
Caste and Life Narratives Edited/Translated Books Primus Books Co-Editor 978-93-5290-875-2 [hardback]; 978-93-5290-876-9 [POD] 2019 National
Servants and Mistresses: Literary and Legal Sketches in Early Twentieth-Century Uttar Pradesh. In Servants’ Pasts: Late-Eighteenth to Twentieth-Century South Asia, Vol. 2, eds Nitin Sinha and Nitin Varma Chapters in Books Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Author 978-93-5287-694-5 2019 National
Ethics or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi Public Sphere in Colonial North India. In Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages, ed. Hans Harder, 149-75. Chapters in Books London and New York: Routledge Author 978-1-138-50239-0; 9781315144870 [eBook] 2018 International
Challenging Caste, Doing Gender: Paradoxes of Male Writings in North India. In Men and Feminism in India, eds Romit Chowdhury and Zaid Al Baset Chapters in Books Oxon and New York: Routledge Author Hardback: 978-1-138-21038-7; eBook: 978-1-351-04824-8 2018 International
Imaging Dalit Identities: Performing Femininities and Masculinities in Early Twentieth Century. In Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality, ed. Anupama Rao Chapters in Books New Delhi: Women Unlimited Author 978-93-85606-14-4 2018 National
Paradoxes of Victimhood: Dalit Women’s Bodies as Polluted and Suffering in Colonial North India. In Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb, eds Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh and Upal Chakrabarti Chapters in Books New Delhi and London: Routledge Author Hardback: 978-1-138-10412-9; eBook: 978-1-315-10405-8 2018 International
Representing Dalit Bodies in Colonial India. In Unsettling the Archetypes: Femininities and Masculinities in Indian Politics, ed. Manuela Ciotti Chapters in Books New Delhi: Women Unlimited Author 978-81-88965-96-0 2017 National
The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Permanent Black; University of Washington Press Author 978-81-7824-389-4; 9780295995649; 978-81-7824-499-0 2016 International
Intimate Desires: Dalit Women and Religious Conversions in Colonial India. In Living with Religious Diversity, eds Sonia Sikka, Bindu Puri and Lori G. Beaman Chapters in Books Oxon, New York and New Delhi: Routledge Author 978-1-138-63972-0 2016 International
Saving ‘Wronged’ Bodies: Caste, Indentured Women and Hindi Print-Public Sphere in Colonial India. In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Platinum (75th) Session, 716-22. Full Paper in Conference Proceedings/Other Aligarh: IHC Author 2249-1937 2015 National
Condemnation and Commemoration: (En)Gendering Dalit Narratives of 1857. In Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857, Vol 5: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives, ed. Crispin Bates, 17-35. Chapters in Books New Delhi: Sage Author 9-788132-113539 2014 International
Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism Edited/Translated Books New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Editor 978-81-250-4472-7 2012 National
Gendering Dalit Identities: Retelling ‘National’ Histories of 1857. In Nationhood and Identity Movements in Asia: Colonial and Post-colonial Times, ed. Swarupa Gupta, 271-86. Chapters in Books New Delhi: Manohar Author 978-81-7304-960-6 2012 National
Redefining Obscenity and Aesthetics in Print. In The Indian Public Sphere: Readings in Media History, ed. Arvind Rajagopal. Chapters in Books New Delhi: Oxford University Press Author 0-19-806103-X 2009 International
Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other New Delhi and London: Routledge Co-Author 0-415-44905-7; 978-1-138-49759-7 2008 International
Hindu Wombs, Muslim Progeny: The Numbers Game and Shifting Debates on Widow Remarriage in Uttar Pradesh, 1890s-1930s. In Reproductive Health in India: Histories, Politics, Controversies, ed. Sarah Hodges. Chapters in Books New Delhi: Orient Longman Author 81-250-2939-7 2006 National
Gains. Losses and/or Potential Possibilities: Gender and Social Reforms in the United Provinces. In Exploring Gender Equations: Colonial and Post Colonial India, eds Shakti Kak and Biswamoy Pati Chapters in Books New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Author 81-87614-32-3 2005 National
Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Permanent Black; Palgrave Author 81-7824-000-9; 81-7824-118-8; 0-312-29545-6; 0-312-29585-5 2001 International
Research Projects
Title of the Project Project Type Year Of Sanction Output Start Date End Date
Fashioning a Hindu Nationalist: Vernacular Freedom and Ascetic Masculinity in Satyadev Parivrajak’s Autobiography Minor 2021 Research Paper in Peer Reviewed Journal. Part of Future Monograph 2021-11-01 2022-03-15
Utopian Visions: Satyabhakta, ‘Ram Rajya’ and Vernacular Communism Minor 2020 Two Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals. Four Conference Presentations. 2020-01-03 2020-03-15
Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India Minor 2019 Research Paper in Peer Reviewed Journal. 4 Conference Presentations. 2019-01-01 2019-03-15
Gendering Ayurveda: Yashoda Devi in Early Twentieth Century India Minor 2021 Peer Reviewed Paper. Conference Presentation. 2021-01-04 2021-03-15
Sex in the Vernacular: The Writings of Santram Minor 2016 Publication in a Peer Reviewed Journal. 2 Conference Presentations. 2016-11-04 2017-03-15
Public Health, Disease & Contagion: Snapshots of Inclusion/Exclusion from Colonial & Contemporary History Major 2022 2022-08-01 2025-03-31
Utopian Freedom in the Vernacular Minor 2023 2023-08-31
Honour And Awards
Name of the Award Name of the Awarding Body Award Category Level Date of Award
Asian Print Media Writing Award Asian Media Information and Communication Centre and Singapore Press Holdings Research International 1999-06-01
Deputation as Visiting Professor and ICCR Chair, Institute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna. ICCR & University of Vienna Academic International 2017-03-31
Rama Watamull Distinguished Indian Scholar University of Hawaii Academic International 2006-01-01
Travelling Trails of a Hindu Political Sanyasi. Keynote Lecture. International Workshop on ‘Migration, Journey, Travelling and Nostalgia: Travel Narratives in Hindi Literature’, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna. Academic International 2022-05-27
Critical Caste Studies: Snapshots from Teaching and Research. Keynote Lecture (hybrid). International Conference on ‘Dalit Studies and the Study of Caste: The State of the Field’, University of Chicago, USA. Academic International 2022-04-14
Reimagining History: Gendering Colonial India. Special Lecture. 1st International Conference 2021, organised by Asiatic Society for Social Science Research. Academic International 2022-01-09
Ishq and Censorship: Histories of Pleasure and Displeasure in Modern India. Keynote Address. Online Conference on ‘Love, Sex and Data’, organised by Agents of Ishq and The YP Foundation. Academic International 2022-01-09
Vernacular Registers of Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India. 5th Annual Lecture (Online). History of Women, Gender and Sexuality, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Academic International 2021-03-08
Romance and Religion: Illicit Intimacies in Modern India. Keynote Address. 3rd ‘Ireland India Institute Conference on South Asia’, Dublin City University, Dublin. Academic International 2019-04-24
Bhopal by ICC Cell, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) Extension National 2022-01-07
Seminar / Conference Details / Workshops
Title of the Activity Attended As Date
Fashioning a ‘Hindu’ Freedom: Vernacular Travelogues of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’. Invited Paper in an Online International Symposium on ‘Decolonizing Travel(ing) Theory: Explorations in the Indian Analytic Tradition’, organized by Department of Humanities & Invited Talk 2021-07-17
Can We Rethink Histories of Sexuality? Invited Speaker in International Webinar Series on ‘Summer of Ishq/History’, organized by Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), Ashoka University Invited Talk 2021-06-23
‘Dangers’ of Disease: Notes from Vernacular Histories of Caste & Gender in India. Invited Speaker in an Online Seminar on ‘Contagion/Contact Zones/Untouchability’, organized by Rutgers Center for European Studies and the Covid and Society Working Group, R Invited Talk 2021-04-07
A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality. Invited Presentation in Online NTU History Seminar on ‘Sexuality and South Asian Histories, Panel II’, organized by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Invited Talk 2021-03-19
A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations. Plenary Address in Online International Conference on ‘Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in South Asian Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature(s) and Public Spheres’, Jamia Univ Invited Talk 2021-03-15
Colonialism, Sex, Disease. Invited Speaker in a Webinar Series on ‘Theory and Practice: Transnational Conversations on Gender and Sexuality’, organized by CSGS, Ashoka University and New York University Invited Talk 2020-12-02
Critical Caste Studies. Presentation and Participation in A Roundtable, Modern Language Association (MLA) 2020 Convention, Seattle, USA Oral Presentation 2020-01-10
Teaching Gender-Caste in India: Perils and Pleasures. Paper Presented in a Panel on ‘Teaching Caste’, South Asian Literary Association (SALA) 2020 Annual Conference, Seattle, USA Oral Presentation 2020-01-09
Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: Writings of Satyadev Parivrajak. Paper Presented in a Panel on ‘Literary Sentiments: Gender and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia’, 25th ECSAS, Paris. Oral Presentation 2018-07-26
Teaching Gender-Caste in India: Perils and Pleasures. Presentation in a Panel on ‘Teaching Caste in India and the USA’, 2022 H-Net International Teaching Zoom Conference on ‘Unchartered Territories: Teaching History, Humanities and Social Sciences' Oral Presentation 2022-08-29
Footprints of the Right: Communal Cartographies in Hindi Travel Writing. Invited Speaker in International Workshop on ‘Communal Geographies’. Invited Talk 2022-04-06
Scripting Gendered Histories of Modern India. Invited Special Guest Lecture in International Conference on ‘Changing Gender Climates: Equality Today for Building a Sustainable Future Tomorrow’, organized by Centre for Gender Studies, Patna. Invited Talk 2021-10-08
Representing Sex and Sexuality in Hindi Print-Public Sphere of Early Twentieth Century. International Conference on ‘Locating the Public Culture in Contemporary India’, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi Invited Talk 2022-03-22
Erotic, Hateful and Seditious: Proscription of Pleasurable, Communal and Communist Writings in Hindi Print. Online International Conference on ‘Proscribed Hindi Urdu Print and Colonial Historiography’, organized by University of Hyderabad Invited Talk 2021-11-15
Race, Caste and Inequality: A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson, Webinar Series on ‘Toward A Just Society: Global Perspectives’, organized by Indiana University Bloomington, USA Invited Talk 2021-02-17
Voicing Self, Penning Travel: Masculine Vernacular Life Writing. Panel on ‘Public Lives, Private Memories: Travel and Vernacular Life Writing in Asia’, International Conference of AAS-In-Asia, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Oral Presentation 2018-07-07
Mistresses and Servants: Literary and Legal Sketches in Early 20th Century Uttar Pradesh. 2nd International Conference on ‘Servants’ Pasts’, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Invited Talk 2018-04-12
Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India. International Symposium on ‘Literary Sentiments: Telling Lives in the Vernacular’, Northwestern University, USA Invited Talk 2017-10-13
Deferential and Defiant Bodies: Imaging Dalits in Colonial North India. International Conference on ‘The Body in Colonial India’, University of Kassel, Germany Invited Talk 2017-06-10
Recalcitrant Intimacies: Caste, Religion and Servants’ Representations in Hindi Print Culture of Colonial India. International Conference on ‘Servants’ Pasts, 16th to 20th Century’, CSDS, Delhi Invited Talk 2017-02-17
Speaking Self, Writing Caste: Recovering the Life of Santram BA. International Workshop on ‘Approaching Biographies, Life-Histories & Self-Narratives’, JNU, New Delhi Invited Talk 2017-01-31
Witness to Caste: Santram and the ‘Jat Pat Torak Mandal’. nternational Workshop on ‘Caste and Life Narratives’, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA Invited Talk 2016-09-01
Forbidden Intimacies and the Vernacular. International Workshop on ‘Literary Sentiments: Telling Gendered Lives in the Vernacular’, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Germany Invited Talk 2016-07-14
Witness to Caste: Santram and the ‘Jat-Pat Torak Mandal’. Session on ‘Caste and Life Narratives in India and its Diaspora’, International Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, Washington, USA Oral Presentation 2016-04-01
Dalit Sexualities: Religious Conversions, Sartorial Desire, and Romance in Colonial India. Panel on ‘Marginalized Sexualities: Expositions from India’, International Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto Oral Presentation 2014-05-25
Representing the Dalit Woman: Hindi Print Sphere and Middle Classes in Colonial North India. International Seminar on ‘Comparative Colonial Middle Classes’, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Invited Talk 2013-03-25
Inter-Religious Intimacies: Conversions, Desire and Dalit Women in Colonial India. International Seminar on ‘Living with Religious Diversity’, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, India International Centre, Delhi Invited Talk 2013-02-18
Embodied Desires: Hindu Publicists, Dalits and Intimate Relationships in Colonial India. International Workshop on ‘A Social History of Caste and Intimacy’, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi Invited Talk 2011-12-09
Subaltern Sexualities and the Archives in Colonial India. International Conference on ‘Subaltern Studies: Historical World Making Thirty Years On’, Australian National University, Canberra Invited Talk 2011-08-04
Body Blues: Representations of Dalit Male Bodies in Colonial India. Session on ‘Sexuality and the State’, 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou Invited Talk 2011-06-24
Registers of Caste: Reflections from Teaching and Research, Public Lecture, organised by The Program in South Asian Studies, Rutgers University Invited Talk 2022-11-07
Researching Caste: The Unchartered World of Santram BA, Workshop with Charu Gupta, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago Invited Talk 2022-10-11
Anatomy of a Political Sanyasi: Freedom, Fitness and Finance in Satyadev Parivrajak’s Writings, Symposium on ‘Hindu Economicus’, 50th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Invited Talk 2022-10-19
Teaching Caste: Prospects and Challenges, A Conversation with Charu Gupta and Laura Brueck, moderated by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago Invited Talk 2022-10-25
Critical Caste and Gender Studies: Anecdotes from Teaching and Research, ‘Race, Caste, and Colorism Project’, Northwestern University, USA Invited Talk 2022-10-12
A Vernacular Archive of Sexuality, Rutgers British Studies Center and the South Asia Studies Program Present, Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences, USA Invited Talk 2022-11-08
Legislating Transgressive Romance, Institute for Research on Women Seminar Series, Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences, USA Invited Talk 2022-11-10
Contribution To MoU
Collaborating Agency Title of MoU Date of Entering the MoU Duration of the MoU
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Member, International Editorial Advisory Board 2017-01-01 48
Gender & History (published from UK). Member, Editorial Collective 2017-07-01 48
Journal of Women’s History (published from Maryland, USA). Member, Editorial Board 2017-07-01 48
Indian History Congress Life Member 2017-01-01 240
Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS). Life Member 2020-07-01 240
Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS) Life Member 2019-07-01 240
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