July 2, 2013 Purushottam Agrawal Position Former Member Union Public Service Commission Shahjahan Road, New Delhi (From 2 July 2007 to 1 July 2013) Demitted office on 1 July 2013 on expiry of term Date of Birth 25 June 1955 Email
[email protected] Residential Address 99, New Moti Bagh, Shanti Path, New Delhi 110023 Professional Experience As Member, Union Public Service Commission - In-charge of RTI matters (2010-2013) - Represented India at International Conference of Civil Service Commissions at Yerevan, Armenia (6-9 September 2011) - Presided over Personality Test boards for all India Civil Service Examinations (2007-2013) - Presided over selection committee meetings, personality tests and - Departmental Promotion Committees of various Ministries and Departments of Government of India (2007-2013) Positions 2002- British Academy Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge 2007 Chairman, Centre of Indian Languages, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 1990-2007 Assistant, Associate and full Professor, Centre of Indian Languages, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 2002 British Academy Visiting Professor, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge 2002 Visiting Professor, El Colegio De México, Mexico City 1 Academic Recognition (Select) My work on Bhakti and contemporary popular culture in India is being studied as part of the course entitled “Public Intellectuals of India” designed and offered by David N. Lorenzen, at the El Colegio De Mexico, Mexico City. Panel organized on my book Akath Kahani Prem Ki: Kabir Ki Kavita aur Unka Samay as part of 40th Wisconsin South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Chair: Thomas Trautmann.