Name : GYAN PRAKASH SHARMA

Date of Birth: 26 June 1952

Qualifications: MA ( University, New Delhi) M Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Official Address:

Department of History and Culture

Faculty of Humanities and Languages

Jamia Millia Islamia

New Delhi 110025

Ph: 91(11) 26981717-2818(O)

Mob: 9810873263

Current Address Official Address

Dean

Faculty of Humanities and Languages

Jamia Millia Islamia

Ph: 26983578, 26981717-2801,2802

Residential Address:

57, Uttaranchal Apartments

5, I.P. Extension

Delhi 110092

Ph: 91(11) 22721502

e-mail address: [email protected]

Specialisation : Modern Indian History (social and political history)

Current Administrative Positions: 1. Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 2. Honorary Director, Munshi Premchand Archives and Literary Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia 3. Hony. Advisor, Centres of Higher Learning, Jamia Millia Islamia

Administrative Positions Held Earlier: 1. Head, Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2007-2010) 2. Coordinator, Special Assistance Programme (SAP) UGC (2002-2007) 3. Coordinator, Transfer of Credits Programme

Highlights of Important Contributions:

Courses Framed:

Communalism and the Right Wing Movements

History of Municipal Institutions in

Health, Medicine and Society in

Agrarian Movements and Peasant Uprisings in Colonial India

Research Projects Undertaken:

Survey of Bonded Labour in North sponsored by the National Labour Institute, , 1975-76

Compilation of Village Notes of District 1984-85

Any Other Innovative Activity:

Involved course structuring of and preparation of study material on Indian National Movement for MA Classes of IGNOU

Academic Engagements Since 2009

Lectures delivered:

1. ‘Relevance of Classical Languages in Contemporary Times’, March 2013, Workshop on Uses of Language Laboratory, JMI, New Delhi 2. ‘The Making of Modern Bihar’, March 2012, organized by Bihar State Archives on the occasion of Bihar Centenary Celebrations. 3. Keynote address ‘Land Struggle in Contemporary Bihar’ December 2012 at the International Seminar on Hundred Years of Bihar organized by Rajendra Bhawan Trust, New Delhi 4. ‘The Meta and Micro Narratives and the Making of Popular Movements’ August 2011 Academic Staff College Refresher Course, JMI. 5. “Competing Identities and the Making of the Indian Nation”. October 2009, Staff Lecture Series, Department of History, JMI 6. Opening Address of the 25th Refresher Course Programme, JMI August 2009 7. Address to the Iranian Academic Delegation, “Jamia through the Ages”, August 2009 8. ‘Subaltern School and the Concept of Peasant Autonomy August 2008 Academic Staff College, JMI Refresher Course, 10 Historiography of Social Medicine in India, September 2008 Academic Staff College, JMI, Refresher Course,

Papers Presented in Seminars/Conferences

1. Professor RS Sharma: As I Knew Him’ February 2012 Prof. RS Sharma and Indian Historiography, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi 2. ‘’s Contribution to the Making of Modern Bihar’ March 2011 Bihar State Archives Bihar Centenary Celebrations Conference Making of Modern Bihar 3. ‘ and the Agrarian Issue in Bihar’, March 2011 Seminar on Rajendra Prasad and his Times, Rajendra Prasad Trust, N. Delhi 4. Representing the Other: Sahajanand Saraswati and the Rural Poor, March 2010 DRS(SAP) Department of History, JMI, 5. ‘Gandhi and the Making of the Indian Nation’, March 2010 Gandhi and the Context of Mass Politics Seminar organized by Centre for Gandhian Studies and Department of Political Science, JMI, 6. ‘Caste, Class and the Politics of Identity: Bihar in the 1920s and 30s’, March 2011 DRS(SAP) Department of History, JMI 7. ‘Dearth, Disaese and Death: Famine in the Central Provinces’ ICHR Conference on Agricultural Growth and Colonial Rule, September 2007

Publications: 1. Congress and the in Bihar, Somaiya Publications, Mumbai, 1987 2. “Peasants and the Indian National Movement” IGNOU Study material on National Movement for MA Modern Indian History, March 2012 3. RS Sharma: A Personal Tribute, Filhaal, November 2011 4. Health, Medicine and Society: A study of Colonial India, Forthcoming, Primus Publications, Delhi 5. “Ram Vilas Sharma aur unke Marxvaadi Vichardhara ka Upniveshik Parivesh” Udbhawna(Journal) Ram Vilas Sharma Visheshank 2013 6. “Reforming the Indian Dai: Midwifery in Colonial India” Gender in Indian History”, in Edited volume ‘India Women Through Ages’, Patna, 2013 7. “Sahajanand Saraswati and the Communist Movement in Bihar” Special Issue of the , 2012

Academic Meetings Chaired:

1. Presided over one of the sessions in a Seminar on Problems of the North East March 2011 2. Chaired a session of a National Seminar on “Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century” organized by the Department of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia 1 March 2013. 3. Chaired Devdas Gandhi Memorial Lecture organized by the Department of Jamia Millia Islamia 6 November 2012 4. Chaired a session in the International Seminar on Islamic Modernity organized by the Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia . 5. Chaired a session on in the International Seminar on Religious Identity organized by the Centre for Comparative Religion Jamia Millia Islamia March 2013. 6. I have been coordinating the Credit Transfer Programme of the University. It entails regular interaction with the participating Departments and Centres. 7. I, with the help of my colleagues in the Munshi Premchand Archives and Literary Centre, organized an exhibition on Motilal Nehru on his 150th Birthday, March 2013

PhD Supervision:

1. Manisha Vashist, National Movement and the Gandhian Impact on the Politics of Kumaon Region 1921-1942 2. Nafis Alam, A Study of the Ideology and Politics of the All India Momin Conference, 1914- 1947 3. Abdul Wahab, Evolution of Jamia Millia Islamia as an Educational Institution

4. Praveen Kumar, Communal Problem in Delhi in the 1940s 5. Reva Dhanedhar, A Study of National Politics of Delhi: From Non-Cooperation to Quit India Movements 6. Rashmi Choube, A Study of 1857 in Eastern UP based on Popular Literature

7. Ravi Prakash, History of Archaeological Survey of India 8. Mohd. Asif, A Social and Political Profile of Mohammad Shah Zubair

Membership of Academic & Professional Bodies

1. Indian History Congress 2. Indian Historical Commission 3. Bihar Itihas Parishad 4. British Library, London 5. Indian Historical Records Commission November 2011 6. International Conference on the Health, Medicine and Society, JNU 7. Indian History Congress, Delhi Session 2010 8. Member, Indian History Congress 9. Member, Syllabi Revision Committee, National Archives, Delhi 10. Member Committee of Courses, MMAJ Academy of International Relations, JMI 11. Member, Faculty Committee, Social Work, JMI 12. Member, Faculty Committee, Faculty of Education, JMI 13. Member, Committee of Courses, AJ Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre, JMI 14. Member, Faculty Committee, Faculty of Natural Sciences, JMI 15. Member, Advisory Council, Indian Historical Records Commission 16. Member, Indian Social Science Congress 17. Member, Syllabus Revision Committee for MA Semester Courses, History Department, Patna University

Contribution to Corporate life of the University

1. Member, Committee of Courses (COS) MMAJ Academy of International Studies, JMI

2. Member, COS, AKJ Mass Communication Research Centre, JMI

3. Member, BOS, Department of Social Work, JMI

4. Member, Faculty Committee, Faculty of Education, JMI

5. Convenor, Committee on Equivalence of Examinations, JMI

6. Member, Examination Committee, JMI

7. Member, Study Leave Committee, JMI

8. Member, Hindi Implementation Committee, JMI

9. Covenor, Madrasa Committee, JMI

10. Member, Disciplinary Committee, JMI

11. Member, Four Year Compulsory E