Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site

Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site
Title Dr.
Designation
Address
First Name
Rahul
Last Name
Photograph
Assistant Professor
Phone No Office
Residence
Mobile
[email protected]
Email
Web-Page
Educational Qualifications
Degree
Institution
Ph.D.
M.Phil. / M.Tech.
PG
UG
Any other qualification
Govind
Columbia University, New York
Columbia University, New York
University of Delhi
University of Delhi
Year
2008
2004
2001
1999
Career Profile
University of Delhi 2009 – present
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 2008 -- 2009
Doctoral and Teaching Fellow, Columbia University 2002-2008
Administrative Assignments
Committee of Courses
Library Committee
Areas of Interest / Specialization
Imperialism and Capitalism, Colonial India and aspects of Modern and Early Modern Europe, Conceptual History
Subjects Taught
Problems in the Rise and Development of Capitalism
Issues in Economy and Society: 1750 – 1850 (India)
History of Political Thought
Revolutions and Revolutionary Thought
Select Problems in History and Historiography
Economic History I
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M.Phil Course I, II and III
Research Guidance
I M.Phil. thesis
I PhD (in progress)
Publications Profile
Monograph(s)
2015 Infinite Double (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla)
Articles in Academic Journals
2013 “Imagination and Freedom: Bhattacharayya, Heidegger and the Kantian Inheritance” STUDIES IN
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Vol. 20, No. 1. (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla)
2013 “Nation-State in the Age of Imperialism” ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (Special Article)
(Sameeksha Trust; Mumbai)
2013 “The Fadeout of the Political Subject: From Locke to Mill” TELOS 162 (TELOS Press; New York)
2011 “Equality, Right and Identity: Rethinking the Contract Through Hobbes and Marx” in TELOS No.
154 (TELOS Press; New York)
2011 “Revenue, Rent…Profit? Early British Imperialism, Political Economy and the Search for a
Differentia Specifica (inter se)” Vol. 48:2, INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW (SAGE; Delhi
School of Economics, Delhi)
2011 “Time, Freedom and Mechanism in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj” in JOURNAL OF INDIAN COUNCIL OF
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PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH Vol. XXVII, No.3 (ICPR; Delhi)
Book Reviews:
2015 Review of Rosalind O Hanlond’s At the Edges of Empire in The Book Review
2013 Review of Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Is Indian Civilization a Myth? in The Book Review
2013 Review of Daud Ali and Pandian Ed. Ethical Life in South Asia in Contributions to Indian Sociology
2013 Review of Manu Bhagwan Ed. Heterotopias in Indian Economic and Social History Review
2011 Review of Nancy Gardner Cassel’s Social Legislation of the East India Company in The Book Review
2010 Review of Kumkum Chatterjee’s Cultures of History in Early Modern India in The Book Review
2010 Review of Shruti Kapila Ed. An Intellectual History for India in The Book Review
2010 Review of Madhushree Mukerjee’s Churchill’s Secret War in Biblio
Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years)
2013 “From Thraldom to Wonder: Ranajit Guha and the Insurgent’s Manual” in Celebrating 30 Years of
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency, Workshop at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,
Delhi.
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Invited Presenter/Commentator for Cultural Studies Workshop on “Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism”
(CSSSC, Calcutta, Ford Foundation and SEPHIS)
Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)
Charles Wallace
ICHR grant
Awards and Distinctions
St. Stephen’s College Centenary Gold Medal (2000)
Richard Hofstadter Fellow, History Department, Columbia University.(2002-7)
Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (2008-9)
Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2013-14)
Association With Professional Bodies
Other Activities
Written chapters for ILLL on Colonial Ideology. (Modern India).
Referee for the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Indian Economic and Social History
Review
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