Milinda Banerjee: Curriculum Vitae

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MILINDA BANERJEE: CURRICULUM VITAE

Email Address: [email protected] Date of Birth: 18 April 1985 Nationality: Indian

CAREER AND EDUCATION

 2017-2019: Research Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU), Munich.  November 2014: Defended PhD in Heidelberg University (Summa cum Laude).  2013-2016: Research Fellow in Junior Research Group ‘Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954’, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.  2012-ongoing: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata.  2010-2014: PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. Member of research project A5: ‘Nationising the Dynasty’.  2010-2011: Taught at Department of History, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.  2010: Assistant Professor at Surendranath College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta).  2008-2010: Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of History, University of Calcutta.  2008-2010: Guest lecturer at Presidency College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta).  2008: Part-time guest lecturer at Vidyasagar College, Evening Section, Kolkata (University of Calcutta).  2007: Qualified in the National Eligibility Test (NET) examinations, University Grants Commission, Government of India.  2006-2008: MA in History, University of Calcutta (Graded 1st class 1st).  2003-2006: BA in History, University of Calcutta (Graded 1st class 1st).

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Bengali (mother tongue) English (native) Hindi (proficient) French (proficient) Latin (elementary). 1

BOOKS (MONOGRAPHS)

 2009: Rammohun Roy: A Pilgrim’s Progress, Intellectual Strands and Premises in Rammohun Roy’s Pursuit of Reason, God, and Common Sense in Early Modern India, with a foreword by Barun De, Kolkata: Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, 2009.  2009: A History of Laughter: Ishwar Gupta and Early Modern Bengal, with a foreword by Gautam Bhadra, Kolkata: Das Gupta and Co., 2009.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

 2016: ‘Besitz, Widerstand und globale Geistesgeschichte im Spiegel des Chandimangal aus dem frühmodernen Bengalen’ [Property, Resistance, and Global Intellectual History in the Mirror of Chandimangal from Early Modern Bengal], in Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, 17 (1) 2016: 71-90.  2015: ‘“All This is Indeed Brahman”: Rammohun Roy and a ‘Global’ History of the Rights-Bearing Self’, in The Asian Review of World Histories, 3 (1) 2015: 81-112.  2010: ‘State of Nature, Civilized Society, and Social Contract: Perspectives from Early Modern Bengal on the Origin and Limits of Government’, Calcutta Historical Journal, 28 (2) 2008 [backlog issue]: 1-55.  2009: ‘The Trial of Derozio, or the Scandal of Reason’, Social Scientist, 37 (7-8) 2009: 60-88.  2009: '1857-r Nana Bhasha' [The Many Languages of 1857], Sahitya Parishad Patrika, May 2009: 44-55.  2008: ‘Heritage Unbound’, Journal of the Asiatic Society, 50 (4) 2008: 43-110.

BOOK CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED VOLUMES

 2016: ‘Decolonization and Subaltern Sovereignty: India and the Tokyo Trial’, in Kerstin von Lingen (ed.), War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956, London: Palgrave, 2016, 69-91.  2016: ‘Ocular Sovereignty, Acclamatory Rulership, and Political Communication: Visits of Princes of Wales to Bengal’, in Heidi Mehrkens and Frank Lorenz Müller (eds.), ‘Winning their Trust and Affection’: Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, London: Palgrave, 2016, 81-100.  2016: ‘Gods in a Democracy: State of Nature, Postcolonial Politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas’, in Jyotsna Singh and David Kim (eds.), The Postcolonial World, London: Routledge, 2016, 184-205.  2015: ‘Doubt, Authority and the Individual. Rammohun Roy, Christian Missionary Discourses and Political Theology in Early Nineteenth-Century Bengal’, in Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach-Fuchs, and Wolfgang Reinhard (eds.), Individualisierung durch christliche Mission? 2

[Individualization through Christian Missionary Activity?], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, 438-456.  *2014: ‘Does International Criminal Justice Require a Sovereign? Historicizing Radhabinod Pal’s Tokyo Judgment in Light of his ‘Indian’ Legal Philosophy’, in Morten Bergsmo, Cheah Wui Ling, and Yi Ping (eds.), Historical Origins of International Criminal Law, vol. 2, 67-117, Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law Publication Series No. 21 (2014), Brussels: Torkel Opsahl, 2014, archived in International Criminal Court Legal Tools Database, https://www.legal-tools.org/en/doc/7c217c/ .

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses Designed and Taught by me in Presidency University

Postgraduate  HIST0703A: Global Intellectual History I: Intersections of South Asia and Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century  HIST0803A: Global Intellectual History II: Intersections of Early Modern South Asia and Europe

Undergraduate  HIST0102: Ancient India: Intellectual Histories, Political and Religious Cultures, Social Contexts  HIST0402: Early Modern Europe in a Global Age

General Education (co-designed and co-taught with Political Science Department)  POLS0132: Japan: Emerging Power in the Asian Century

Undergraduate Course Designed and Taught by me at Department of History, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University  Gods, Jesters, Reformers, and Kings in the Making of the Indian Nation

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

I supervise about 2 to 3 MA dissertations every academic year in Presidency University, and a similar number of BA dissertations.

GRANT CAPTURE: THIRD PARTY FUNDING AND COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS (Year refers to the year of grant award)

 2016: Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) Research Fellowship.  2016: Participant in DFG (German Research Foundation) Grant for Initiation of International Collaboration on research about ‘Indian Nationals in Transitional Justice after WWII in the Pacific-Asian Region: as Victims, Judges, and Prison Guards’, in association with scholars from Marburg University, Heidelberg University, Australian National University, and Murdoch University, Perth (Principal Participant: Wolfgang Form, Marburg University).  2015: Partner in Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation Grant for establishing an ‘Indian-Danish Research Network on the Social History of Serampore, West Bengal, India’ (Principal Partner: Bente Wolff, National Museum of Denmark).  2014: UKIERI (UK-India Education and Research Initiative) Grant on ‘Narratives of Migration’, in collaboration between Presidency University and University of St Andrews.  2014: Project on creating a digital database on the ‘Dutch in Bengal’ with the Netherlands Embassy in India.  2013: Research Fellowship in Junior Research Group ‘Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954’, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.  2013: Co-investigator in Interdisciplinary (History/Political Science) Research Project ‘Languages of Empowerment: Producing Community Identities among Backward Classes in Contemporary West Bengal’: Project at Rabindranath Tagore Centre for Human Development Studies (UGC-sponsored Joint Initiative of University of Calcutta and Institute of Development Studies Kolkata).  2010: PhD Scholarship at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany; member of research project A5: Nationising the Dynasty.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

 2017: (with Ilya Afanasyev, University of Birmingham) International Conference ‘The Modern Invention of Dynasty: A Global Intellectual History of the Concept, 1500-2000’, at Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, 21-23 September.  2016: (with Kerstin von Lingen, Heidelberg University) International Conference ‘Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History’, Heidelberg University, 19-21 June.  2015: (with Souvik Mukherjee, Presidency University): International Conference ‘Narratives of Migration’, Presidency University, 19 January.

 2014: (with Souvik Mukherjee, Presidency University, the Embassy of the Netherlands in India, and the Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal), International Workshop ‘The Dutch in Bengal’, Presidency University, 25 February.  2012: (with Project A5, ‘Nationising the Dynasty’, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’, Heidelberg University) International Conference ‘Nationizing the Dynasty – Dynastizing the Nation’, University of California, Los Angeles, 12-14 April.

MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL INSTUTIONS AND NETWORKS

 Associate Member, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Heidelberg University.  Member, ‘The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood’ Research Network, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford.  Member, European Hobbes Society.  Member, Royal Studies Network.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES

 2017: ‘Conceptualizing Sovereignty as an Ephiphenomenon of Colonial (Legal) Violence? Radhabinod Pal and the Tokyo Trial in Global Intellectual History’, in Workshop ‘Law and Colonial Violence’, Queen Mary University of London, 14 February.  2016: ‘Imperial Comparison and the (Re-) structuring of Sovereignty in South Asia: British and Indian Discourses, ca. 1870-1920’, in Conference ‘Imperial Comparison’, All Souls College, University of Oxford, 8-9 July.  2016: ‘Sovereignty as a Motor of Global Conceptual Travel? Sanskritic Translations of ‘Law’ in Bengali Discursive Production’, in Conference ‘Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History’, co-organized by me in Heidelberg University, 19-21 June.  2016: ‘Between the City of the Danish King and the City of Rama: Bengali Intellectuals, Civic Patriotism, and Memories of Danish Rule’, in Serampore Workshop, Copenhagen, 11-16 June.  2016: ‘Poetry, Sovereign Terror, and Messianic Time: Two Bengali Poets on the Second World War’, in Workshop ‘The Indian Predicament: South Asia in WWII’, in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 5-6 June.  2016: ‘Between the British Indian Empire, European Royal Networks, and the Papacy: Writing a Transnational History of Late Nineteenth-Century Cooch Behar’, as part of a panel organized by me on ‘Writing Transnational Histories of South Asian Monarchies: Between Regional Dynamism and Global Entanglement, ca. 1850-1950’, in British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) Conference, University of Cambridge, 6-8 April.  2016: ‘Subaltern Dynasticism: Royal Lineage, Social Power, and Political Ethics on a South Asian Frontier, ca. 1500-1700’, at Conference ‘Dynasty and Dynasticism: 1400-1700’, Somerville College, University of Oxford, 16-18 March. 5

 2016: ‘Legal Ideology and the Restructuring of Empire: The Tokyo Trial and its Intellectual Legacies’, at Conference ‘Seventy Years to the End of the War in Asia’, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, 29-30 January.  2015: ‘India’s ‘Subaltern Elites’ and the Tokyo Trial’, in Conference ‘Law, Biography, and a Trial: The Tokyo Tribunal’s Transnational Histories’, Heidelberg University, 6-8 December (through Skype).  2015: ‘The Tokyo Trial Revisited: Notes on a Universalistic Critique of Racial and Sovereign Violence from a Perspective of Global Intellectual History’, in Conference ‘Violence, Death, and Survival – World War II in an Age of Globalization’, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 22-24 November.  2015: ‘Between Argumentation and Theology: Re-framing Rammohun Roy in Global Intellectual History’, in Conference ‘India’s Critical Tradition and Maulana Azad’, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, 6-7 November.  2015: ‘Imperial Communication and Nationalist Discourses: Visits of Princes of Wales to Bengal’, in Conference ‘Winning their Trust and Affection: Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in 19th-Century Europe’, University of St Andrews, 28-29 August.  2015: ‘Empire and Natural Law: The Tokyo Trial from Perspectives of Comparative Political Thought’, Invited Lecture at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, organized by the Centre for Comparative Political Thought, in partnership with the Centre for the International Politics of Conflicts, Rights and Justice, 28 April.  2015: ‘From the Early Modern to the Digital: (Re-) Presenting an Indian Kingdom before ‘Global’ Audiences’, Invited Lecture at University of St Andrews, 24 April.  2015: ‘Decolonization, Heteroglossia, and Rule of Law: Re-Reading Radhabinod Pal’s Judgment in the Tokyo Trial’ in Workshop ‘(De-) Colonizing Knowledge: Figures, Narratives, and Practices’, Freie Universitaet Berlin, 16-17 February.  2015: ‘Radhabinod Pal and the Tokyo Trial’ in Conference ‘Bengal in Asia, Asia in Bengal’, Netaji Research Bureau, Kolkata, 23-24 January.  2014: ‘Can Sovereignty be Decolonized? Judge Radhabinod Pal’s Dissenting Judgment at Tokyo from a Perspective of Global Intellectual History’, in Conference on ‘Rethinking Justice? Decolonization, Cold War, and Asian War Crimes Trials after 1945’ at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’, Heidelberg University, 26-29 October.  2014: ‘Recreating Empire in Another Form? Comparing Japanese and ‘Western’ Colonialism at the Tokyo Trial’, in Workshop ‘The Politics of Colonial Comparison’, All Souls College, University of Oxford, 29 September.  2014: ‘Imperium, Imperator, and Fantasies of Sovereignty in British India’, in Conference ‘Renovatio, Inventio, Absentia Imperii: From the Roman Empire to Contemporary Imperialism’, organized by the Academia Belgica of Rome, the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome, and the Princess Marie-Jose Foundation, in Palais des Academies, Brussels, 11-13 September.  2014: ‘Justice in Motion: Radhabinod Pal and the Emergence of Modern International Law through Encounters between India, Japan, and “the West”’, in Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, at Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 4-7 September.

 2014: ‘Time of Gods, Time of Men: South Asian Temporalities and Transnational Early Modern Connections, ca. 1760-1830’, in Tenth European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, 23-26 April.  2014: ‘Decolonizing Justice: Tokyo Trial and the Emergence of New Concepts of International Criminal Law in the Mid-20th Century’, in Conference ‘The Historical Origins of International Criminal Law’, organized by Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law and Peking University International Law Institute, at Hong Kong, 1-2 March.  2014: ‘Ritual, Memory, Transcultural Urbanity: The Dutch and Bengal in Global History’, in Workshop ‘The Dutch in Bengal’, co-organized by the Dutch Embassy in India, the Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal, and Presidency University, 25 February.  2013: ‘Resonances of Kingship in Crisis: Flows of Concepts, People, and Texts between Bengal, Britain and France, and the Construction of Transcultural Ideas about Government in the 18th century’, in Conference on ‘Eastern Resonances’, organized by the University of Paris 7 and University of Montpellier 3, in Paris, 5-7 December.  2013: ‘Vivekananda and the Construction of Anti-colonial Discourses on Rulership’, in National Seminar on Vivekananda, organized by the Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata, and Sri Aurobindo Samiti, Kolkata, 26-27 November.  2013: ‘Globalization as Monotheistization: Capital, Law, and Theology in the Age of Rammohun Roy’, in International Workshop ‘Writing World History’, organized by Institut de Chandernagor, Hooghly, 11 November.  2013: ‘Decolonizing International Law: Radhabinod Pal, Dharmic Justice, and the War Crimes Trial in East Asia’, in Conference ‘Managing Empires: Cooperation, Competition, Conflict’, in Heidelberg University, 9-11 October.  2013: ‘Kingship, Ethnicity, and Colonialism: Interrogating the Shifting Nexus between Political Legitimation, State Ritual, and Community Politics in Princely and Early Postcolonial Tripura, ca. 1850-1950’, in Conference ‘Negotiating Ethnicity: Politics and Display of Cultural Identitiesin Northeast India’, organized by the Institute for Social Anthropology and Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Initiativkolleg, ‘Cultural Transfers and Cross-Contacts in the Himalayan Borderlands’, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, and the Indian Embassy in Austria, Vienna, 4-6 July.  2013: ‘Decolonizing Law, or Neocolonizing the World? Radhabinod Pal in Colonial India and in the Tokyo Trial’, in International Workshop ‘Transcultural Justice: Decolonization and Cold War and its Impact on War Crimes Trials and International Law after 1945’, in Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’, Heidelberg University, 27-28 June.  2013: ‘Culture, Property, Subalternity: Rethinking Notions of Heritage in Contemporary West Bengal’, Inaugural Lecture at Course on ‘Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies’, Indian Museum, Kolkata, 16 April.  2013: ‘Postcolonial Studies, Subalternity, and Global Connections: Complicating the Genealogies of South Asian Modernities’, Invited Lecture at Refresher Course, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, 27 February.  2013: ‘Rajoguna and Kshatriyatva: Rethinking Vivekananda and the ‘Royal’ Origins of Modern Indian Citizenship’, in University Grants Commission (UGC) sponsored Conference on

‘Relevance of Swami Vivekananda’s Thoughts in India Today’, in Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata.  2012: ‘Monarchy, Empire, and Nation: Transnational Perspectives on the Legitimation of State in the British Indian Empire, ca. 1858-1947’, in Conference on ‘European Constitutional Monarchies’, Rosenborg Castle, organized by Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Royal Danish Collections, Rosenborg Castle, 24 August.  2012: ‘Asceticizing and Ethicalizing Everyday Peasant Life: The Case of the Rajavamshis of Bengal, ca. 1910-2010’, at 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, 28 July.  2012: ‘Saviour against Caesar: Assessing the Concept of Incarnation in Indian Nationalist Theology in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal’, at 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, 27 July.  2012: ‘The King is Dead. Long Live the King!: Colonial, Nationalist and Peasant Discourses on Kingship as a Basis for the Political Construction of Modern India (1858-1947)’, at Conference on ‘The Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World’, Kensington Palace, London, as part of Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II, 7 June.  2012: ‘Individualism and Religious Heterodoxy: Rammohun Roy and Missionary Discourse in Early 19th century Bengal’, at Conference on ‘Individualization through Christian Missionary Activity?’, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, 26 April.  2012: ‘God, King and Country: Colonial and Nationalist Discourses on Human and Divine Monarchy in India’, at Conference on ‘Nationizing the Dynasty – Dynastizing the Nation’, University of California, Los Angeles, 13 April.  2011: “Time of Gods, Time of Men: Temporality and Social Transformation in ‘Early Modern’ India”, in ‘Eine Globalgeschichte der Sattelzeit, 1760-1830’, University of Bamberg, 11 March (paper read in absentia).  2011: “Conceptualizing the Historicity of ‘Caste’: The View from Bengal”, in ‘Hierarchie und Emanzipation’, University of Heidelberg, 5 February.  2010: ‘Modern Indian Discourses on Kingship as a Basis of Nationhood (1858-1947)’, in Konstanzer Meisterklasse, University of Konstanz, 26 July.  2008: ‘Derozio and the Bengal Renaissance: An Ambiguous Legacy’, at conference on ‘Nineteenth Century Bengal Revisited’, Department of History, University of Calcutta, in collaboration with Derozio Commemoration Committee and Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, 23 March.  2008: ‘The Trial of Derozio, or The Scandal of Reason’ in the UGC-sponsored ‘National Seminar on Derozio’, Presidency College, Kolkata, 18 April.  2008: ‘Critique of Urban Planning’ in training programme, ‘Integrated Urban Planning’ organized by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and HIFAB International in Kolkata, 21 October.  2008: ‘Saviour Cults of Roman Eurasia’, National Seminar, ‘Cross-Cultural Currents: India in the Ancient World’, Loreto College, Kolkata, 25 September.

 2008: ‘What is Partition? Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Structures of a longue durée’, Seminar on ‘Partition Revisited’, Department of History, Presidency College, Kolkata.  2004: ‘Representation of Gender in Indian Art’ at an ‘Interdisciplinary Seminar on Gender’, Presidency College, Kolkata.  2004: ‘What is Objectivity?’, at conference on ‘Paradigms of Objectivity’, Presidency College, Kolkata.  2004: ‘Calcutta: The City and the World’ at conference on ‘Calcutta and History’, Department of History, Presidency College, Kolkata.

BOOK REVIEWS (Names of Books Reviewed and Publication References)  2015: Stephen Cross, Schopenhauer’s Encounter with Indian Thought: Representation and Will and their Indian Parallels, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, in The Journal of Asian Studies, 74, 2, 2015, 506-508.  2013: C. K. Johri, India: Perspectives on Politics, Economy and Labour, 1918-2007, vols. 1 and 2, Delhi: Aakar Books, 2011 in H-Soz-u-Kult, 26 April, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2013-2-074 .  2013: Aya Ikegame, Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the Present, Oxford: Routledge, 2012, in H-Soz-u-Kult, 15 January, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2013-1-030 .  2012: Biswamoy Pati (ed.), The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities, London: Routledge, 2010, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 107, 2, 2012.  2012: Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, in Internationales Asienforum, 42, 3-4, 2011, 375.  2011: Lynn Zastoupil, Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, in H-Soz-u-Kult, 2 June, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-2-180 .  2011: Gita Dharampal Frick, Ali Usman Qasmi and Katia Rostetter (eds.), Revisioning Iqbal as a Poet and Muslim Political Thinker, Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2010, in Internationales Asienforum, 41, 3-4, 2010, 354-356.  2011: Martin Moir, Not Exactly Shangri-La, Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2010, in The Middle Way, February 2011, 257-258.  2010: Mushirul Hasan (ed.) Exploring the West: Three Travel Narratives, Munshi Itesamuddin, Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, Lutfullah Khan. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2009, in The Statesman, 14 January 2010, Sunday Statesman, 2.  2009: Rudrangshu Mukherjee (ed.) Indian Persuasions: 50 Years of SEMINAR, Selected Writings. Delhi: Roli Books, 2009, in The Statesman, 6 December 2009, Sunday Statesman, 3.  2009: Terry Collits and Anjana Sharma (eds.), Agamemnon’s Mask: Greek Tragedy and Beyond, in Journal of the Asiatic Society, 51, 1, 2009, 91-103. 9

 2009: Gwilym Beckerlegge (ed.), Religious Movements and Identities in Modern South Asia, in The Statesman, 12 April 2009, Sunday Statesman, 16-17.

ARTICLES IN POPULAR NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS, AND WEBSITES

 2016: ‘Satya, Sakshya o Vicharer Tribhuj-Samparka’ [The Triadic Relation between Truth, Evidence, and Judgment], Pratidin, 25 June 2016.  2016: ‘Vidushaker Nagarikatva’ [The Jester as Citizen], in Anushtup, 2016.  2015: ‘A Political God in Action? Shandeshwar Jiu Temple in Chinsurah and its Gajan Festival’, in the Database ‘Dutch in Chinsurah’, http://dutchinchinsurah.com/communityspeak.php .  2011: ‘In Search of Transcendence: An Interview with Ranajit Guha’, available at http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/download/ranajit_guha_interview_2.2.11.pdf .  2010: ‘Parer Shilpa, Parashilpa: Bangiya Lokajatra’ [The Other’s Art, Beyond Art: Popular Jatra in Bengal], Jatra Academy Patrika, West Bengal Jatra Academy, 5, June 2010, 528-536.  2009: ‘Probing the Present’, Report on a National Seminar on ‘Explorations in Contemporary History’, The Statesman, 10 March 2009.  2008: ‘Where is Reason? Power, Micro-States and Metamodernity in Municipal India’, Perspectives, University of Calcutta, Vol. 2, January 2008, 76-86.  2007: ‘The Word and the Flesh: Change and Continuity in delineating a Self and constructing a Community during Epochs of Globalization’, Perspectives, University of Calcutta, 150th Year Special Commemorative Volume, January 2007, 206-228.  2007 ‘Svadhinatar Prasangikata: Itihaser Chhatrer Drishtite’ [The Relevance of Freedom: From the Perspective of a History Student], Perspectives, University of Calcutta, 150th Year Special Commemorative Volume, January 2007, 18-34.

INTERNATIONAL REFEREE WORK

 Referee for Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

 2016-17: Giving academic support to, and acting in, the film ‘Forgotten Buildings of Serampore’ (tentative title), directed by Nicolas Servide Staffolani, Elk Film, commissioned by the National Museum of Denmark, in relation to the Serampore Initiative project, and with the aim of spreading public information, especially in Denmark and in India, about the history and revitalization of Danish colonial/civic heritage in the town of Serampore in West Bengal (India).  2016-17: Building a Digital Database of nineteenth century Indian visitors to Scotland, in association with the University of St Andrews (as part of a UKIERI project), and with the aim of

public dissemination of knowledge about the entangled histories and heritages of India and Scotland.  2016-17: Building a Digital Database on the precolonial architectural heritage and civic topography of Bishnupur town and region (the historical Bishnupur kingdom), in association with the University of St Andrews, Sharmistha Chatterjee, and Monalisa Basu (as part of a UKIERI project), and with the aim of raising public awareness about the history, heritage, and tourism potential of the town of Bishnupur in West Bengal (India).  2014-15: Adviser for History and Oral History for the Digital Database ‘Dutch in Chinsurah’, http://dutchinchinsurah.com/index.php , built by Aishwarya Tipnis Architects, and with the objective of increasing public awareness, community sensitization, and tourism potential, in relation to Dutch colonial history and present community heritages of the town of Chinsurah in West Bengal (India).  2014: Research Adviser for the Digital Database ‘The Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah: A Digital Archive of Memories’, http://dutchcemeterybengal.com , built by Presidency University, and with the aim of expanding public interest in the history and mortuary heritage of Dutch-Indian connections.

AWARDS

 2008: Gold Medal and Order of Merit from University of Calcutta  2008: Chandra Narayan Memorial Medal from Presidency College, Kolkata  2008: Gold Medal from Sudhir Kumar Mitra Birth Centenary Memorial Committee  2006: Hemchandra Raychoudhuri Prize from University of Calcutta  2006: Prof. Kalyan Kr. Dasgupta Memorial Scholarship from University of Calcutta  2006: Order of Merit from University of Calcutta  2006: Prof. Ashin Das Gupta Memorial Prize from Presidency College, Kolkata  2006: Udayan Mukherjee Memorial Prize from Presidency College, Kolkata  2005: Scindia Silver Medal from Presidency College, Kolkata  2005: Gwalior Book Prize from Presidency College, Kolkata  2005: Harishchandra Kabi Ratna Memorial Prize from Presidency College, Kolkata  2005: Rai Bahadur Debendra Ch. Ghosh Memorial Prize from Presidency College, Kolkata  2005: Arijit Sengupta Memorial Scholarship from Presidency College, Kolkata  2002: All India Reynolds Scholarship  2000: All India Reynolds Scholarship