Professor in History Since 18^th July 2018

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi, Delhi)

       Dwarka, Sector-3, New Delhi-110078 Ph.- (91)-11-20892296

Date  of  Confirmation at the Present Post : 29-03-1996.

Convener,  Board of Examiners of BA(P) History paper I and II, University of Delhi, 2015-and 2016.

Convener of the Board of Examiners for Semester I, Annual papers for exam held in Nov./Dec.2015.

Convener of the Board of Examiners and Paper setters of, the papers History of India-I, up to 300 BCE, History of India-II, 9 CC. 300 BC to Eighth Century A.D, History of India c. 300 BC to Eighth century AD, History of India from 300 CE to 1206 AD. 

Convener, Board of Examiners for History of India from 300- 1206, semester II, Part I, March 2017.

Convener, CBCS Syllabus subcommittee for redesigning and restructuring B.A. (Prog.) History Paper-I syllabus (From ancient times to c.A.D.300). Session 2015-16..

Sahitya Academi  (Under Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, New Delhi) Panel Advisor and Referee, April 2018.

Secretary, Staff Council for the year 2016-17

Member, ECA Quota Admissions Committee for the year 2017 to 2022. 

Teacher-in – Charge/ Coordinator, Social Sciences and Humanities for 2016-17,  2017-18, 2019-20, 2020-2021 and 2021-22.

Convener and Evaluator, Mass Communication paper code 290678 UG Sem 6th year for May, 2017

Selected Member, Research Committee, for a period of two years by the office of the principal from January 2020 – 2022  again in 2022-23.

Convener, CBCS Syllabus Sub-committee for restructuring B.A. (Prog.) History Paper-II syllabus (From c.A.D.300 to 1206). Session 2015-16.

Member - NEW EDUCATION POLICY (NEP) UGCF 2022 Syllabus and Course Content Formation, April – May 2022

i.                      B.A. (H)  History Core : Readings in Indian History:  Ancient – I, Paper –VII.

ii.                     Core – Readings in Indian History : Ancient – II, Paper – VIII.

B.A. (Multidisciplinary Studies) :

            i.          DSE, Sem – VII, Urbanisation in Indian History

            ii.          DSE, Sem – III, Ancient Civilizations.

iii.                    DSE, Cultures in Indian Subcontinent – II, Paper – IV.

iv.                    DSE, Sem- VIII, Cultural Transactions between early India and the World.

v.                     G.E. – Sacred spaces : Temple and Temple Economy.

Member – Moderation Committee 2022-23.

Member – Ambedkar Studies and Research Centre (ASRC) in the College 2022-23.

Convenor- Debating Society VOICES 2021-22.

Convenor – Admission Committee for B.A. Programme during 2021-22.

Member – Kalamkar – The Literary Society, 2021-22.

Member – Magazine Committee, 2021-22.

Member – Proctorial Board, 2021-22.

Ancient Indian History and Culture

Subjects taught to B.A. (H) History:

Social formations and Cultural patterns in the Ancient and Medieval World and History of China and Japan.

Subjects taught to B.A. Students:

Ancient, Medieval, Modern Indian History and History of Europe 1500-1800.

Subject taught to M.A. Students:

Social and Economic History

        Nov.2018, My student Dinesh Kumar Singh was awarded his Ph. D degree entitled “An Examination of Buddhistic Elements in Nirguna Saints’ Literature’ at the 95th convocation in November 2018 from the Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi Ref. Exam.iv/Ph.D/10081/Delhi.

        4^th Novemeber 2019, My student Mr. Anil Kumar Maurya was awarded his Ph. D degree “Pali Sahitya mein Vipassana: Ek Samikshaatmak Adhyayayana (Buddha se Buddhaghosh tak) at the 96^th convocation of the University of Delhi, Delhi.  Vide DU Notification  June 2019 of Enrol.No. BS-31/08.

Book Published :

I.________, January 2015, Vratas and Utsavas in North and Central India (Literary and Epigraphic Sources: c. A.D. 400-1200), Eastern Book Linkers, Delhi, pp. 1-408. ISBN: 978-81-7854-280-5.Website:www.eblindology.com.Subject Book, Understanding Popular Culture (BA Program Course of Delhi University, Academic Council Resolution 2016.

II._______, January 2019, The Book by Dr Radha Madhav Bharadwaj(ed.)

 ‘Reinterpreting Indology and Indian History: Institutions, Intentions, Sources and Issues’,  is published by Pratibha Prakashan, Oriental Publishers, Shakti Nagar, New Delhi, ISBN No-987-81-7702-444-9, pp.  -PP. 1-359. (This book is published with the financial support of the UNIVERSITE DE REIMS, CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE, FRANCE)

Chapters /papers Published in Books in India :

i.______, October 2006, ‘Religious Reform Movement in Europe: Various Dimensions’ (in Hindi) in Prarambhik Adhunik Europe, Published from the Directorate of Hindi, University of Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-80172-18-7.

                   ii.__, June, 2010, The Methods and the Stages of the Preservation of  Scriptures in Ancient India: Oral Tradition’ in Dipti S. Tripathi (ed.), Tattvabodha, Volume, III, National Mission for Manuscripts-Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Min. of Culture, Govt. of India, New Delhi, pp. 87-108. (ISBN: 978-81-904029-3-4 Vol. III).

               iii._______, 2016, Interpreting Religious Vratas and Utsavas in Sanskrit Poetic and Semi-Historical Taexts Belonging to the Fifth-Twelfth Ceturies AD’ in Rishiraj Pathak (edited) SHREEHEERAKPRABHRITAM (VOL.4), Devavani Parishad, Delhi,, PP. 530-558. ISBN NO-978-81-85924-26-7.       

             iv. _____, Oct.2017, “Dana: Gifts and Grants in the Name of the Buddha Bhattaraka in the Vrata System of Brahmanical Religion during early Medieval India- A New Perspective” in Anand Singh (ed.) Dana-Reciprocity and patronage in Buddhism, Primus Books, Delhi, pp. 218-227. ISBN No. 978-93-84092-32-0.

v. ________________, Jan. 2019, ‘Some Aspects of Social Implications of Buddhist Logic with Special Reference to Dharmakirti (600-660 A.D) During Early Medieval India’ in Radha Madhav Bharadwaj (ed.) Reinterpreting Indology and Indian History- Institutions, Intentions , Sources and Issues, Pratibha Pratibha Prakashan, Delhi, 2019, pp.327-340. ISBN No. 978-81-7702-444-9.

Papers published in International Books (International Publishers) :

i. ______, Oct.2012, ‘Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Engaged Buddhism and its Social and Economic role in Post-Modern SAARC’ in Renuka Singh (ed.) BUDDHISM: MESSAGE OF PEACE, Foundation of SAARCC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL- ISBN: 81-88703-29-X), pp. 42-55.   

                ii_______, 2013,‘Acculturation of the Tribals in North India during the British Colonial Period: An Ethnographic perspective’ in Arvind Sharma and Madhu Khanna (eds),0          Asian Perspectives on the World’s Religions after September 11, Praeger, ABC-CLIO, California, USA, pp.217-31. ISBN: 978-0-313-37896-6; Eisbn-978-0-313-37897-3.

                iii._______, 28^th March, 2017, ‘Atisa’ in Sarao, KTS and Long, Jeffery D. (eds),  Budhism and Jainism, -Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Vol.1, Springer,                                              The Netherlands, pp.195-97, eBook ISBN-978-94-024-0852-2; ISBN-978-94-024-0853-9 (Print and electronic bundle).

         iv.________, 28^th March, 2017, ‘Dharmakirti’ in Sarao, KTS and Long, Jeffery D. (eds),  Buudhism and Jainism, -Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Vol.1, Springer, The Netherlands, pp.401-404, eBook ISBN-978-94-024-0852-2; ISBN-978-94-024-0853-9 (Print and electronic bundle).

v. _______, 28^th March, 2017, ‘Tibet’ in Sarao, KTS AND Long, Jeffery D. (eds), Budhism and Jainism, -Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Vol.1, Springer, The Netherlands, pp.1252-1260, eBook ISBN-978-94-024-0852-2; ISBN-978-94-024-0853-9 (Print and electronic bundle)

vi. Chapter in Book : Sanskritization and Indian Tribes, Encyclopaedia of Hinduism and Tribal Religions, Springer publishing, U.S.A., January 2022.

Papers Published in  Refereed Proceedings and National Journals :

                        i._______,1998,  Bharadwaj, Radha Madhav, ‘Some Aspects of the Economic Basis of Religious Vratas and Utsavas in Early Medieval India: c. A.D. 600-1200’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (fifty-ninth session), Patiala, pp. 156-62. (Accepted As Refereed by University Grants Commission). UGC Care List Ref. 40807, (Sr. No.20320), ISSN No.2249-1937.

                         ii._______, 1999, ‘The Brahmanical Patriarchy and the Religious Vratas During the Early Medieval India’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Diamond Jubilee (60^th) Session, Calicut, pp.137-42. UGC Care List Ref. 40807, (Sr. No.20320), ISSN No.2249-1937.

                          iii._______, 2000-01, ‘Vratotsavas and Acculturation: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Role of Vratotsavas as a force of Acculturation between the Fourth and the Twelfth                     Centuries A.D.’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Millennium (61^st), Session, Kolkata, pp.155-64.  UGC Care List Ref. 40807, (Sr. No.20320), ISSN No.2249-1937.

                         iv._______, 2006, ‘An Inscriptional Enquiry into the Role of Vratas in the Origin and Development of Feudalism in North and Central India:                                                                   5^th-12^th Centuries A.D.’ Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (66^th Session), Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, pp. 252-58. UGC Care List Ref. 40807, (Sr. No.20320), ISSN No.2249-1937.

          v._______, March 2007, ‘Sanskrit Literary and Epigraphic References to the Buddha and the Buddhist Sangha in the Vrata culture of Brahmanic Religion Between the                Fifth and the Twelfth Centuries A.D.’ Buddhist Studies- the Journal of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Vol. XXXII, A Refereed Journal published under the Financial Grant given by U.G.C. under its D.S.A Programme), University of Delhi, Delhi, pp.114-124. UGC Care List 1046, ISSN No. 0970-9754.

                      vi._______, July 2009, ‘The Methods and the Stages of the Preservation of Buddhist Canonical Literature: Oral Literature’, Anusandhanika- A Refereed Journal, Vol. VII, Number II, PP.163-69. (ISSN 0974-200X). 

                        vii._______, Aug. 2010, ‘The Vratas and the women: A Literary Enquiry into the position of Women in the Vrata System of Brahmanical Religion: 5^th-12^th Centuries A.D.’, Anusandhanika, Vol. VIII, Number II, PP.1-7. (ISSN 0974-200X). Refereed Journal.

                      viii. ______,  Dec. 2014, ‘Patriarchy Internalised: The Tusārī-pūjana Vrata in the folk Songs and Ritual Arts of Mithila in North-Eastern Bihar- An Ethnographic perspective’ Anusandhanika, Vol.XII, No. I & II, pp. 10-14. (ISSN 0974-200X). Refereed Journal.

                         ix. _____, Dec. 2015, ‘Brahmahatyā (Brāhmaṇa-murder), Land seizures and Social conflict in the Smṛtis (law texts), Nibandhas (Religious treatises) and Land                                                            grant Inscriptions pertaining to Vratas (religious Vows) in North-Central India: 5^th-12^th c. A.D’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. Platinum Jubilee (75^th) Session, 2015, pp. 137-52, ISSN No-2249-1937. UGC Care List Ref. 40807, (Sr. No.20320).

                  x. ______, 2016, E-Lesson-‘Yunani Sanskriti-800-200 B.C’, Virtual Learning Environment, Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi, pp. 39, ISSN No. 2349-154X (http://vle.du.ac.in/mod/resource/view.php?id=1070).

xi. _______, 2016, ’Puṇya, Vrata and Dāna: Examining the Centrality of the Religious Institution of Vratas in the giving of Gifts and Issuance of Land Grants in North and Central India: 4^th-12^th Centuries A.D’’ in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (PIHC), 76^th Session, (University of Gaur Bang, Malda, 27-29 December, 2015), Aligarh, 2016,pp.94-100, ISSN No-2249-1937. UGC Care List Ref. 40807, (Sr. No.20320).  URL: https://www.jstor.otg/stable/44156570

x. Article in edited work "Trees, Waters and Flowers : Nature and Environment in the Hindu Vrata Religious Tradition AD/400-1200", 

Papers  in Peer Reviewed International Journals :

1._______, June 2008, An Inscriptional Inquiry into the Status of Women in the Vrata System of Brahmanical Religion: 400-1200’, The SSEASR Journal, Vol. II, pp.108-118, ISSN- 0974-5629, (Old UGC Journal list No.64356).

            2. ______, April-June, 2015, ‘A Historiographical Critique of Kunal Chakrabarti’s ‘Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition’, PRAMANA-(International Refereed Research Journal), Vol./Issue 16, 2015, pp.196-201, Impact Factor-2.87. ISSN No. 2249-2976. UGC Care list Ref No. 41241 (Sr. No. 20236).

                     3..________, April-June, 2015,  ‘An Enquiry into the Content and Nature of three extra-ordinary Land Grant Inscriptions from Orissa and Rajasthan during the Seventh                                 and Eleventh Century A.D’ PRAMANA-(International Refereed Research Journal), Vol./Issue 16, 2015, pp. 209-13, Impact Factor-2.87. ISSN No. 2249-2976. UGC Care list Ref No. 41241 (Sr. No. 20236).

                       4.._______, July-Sep, 2015, ‘Ravindra Nath Thakur’s Contribution in the Revival of Theravada Buddhism in Bengal: Revisiting the Ethico-Socio-Religious Contents of his Play ‘Natirpuja’, International Journal of Historical Insight and Research (IJHIR), Vol.1, No.1, 2015, pp.1-8. Electronic ISSN No. 2454-5600. Refereed Journal.

                      5.________, April-September, 2015, ‘A Preliminary Enquiry into Ethno-Geographic Elements and Political Consciousness in Kalidasa’s works’, SAMBHAVYA-An                                           International Refereed Research Journal, Samyutanka (Joint Issue), 17-18, April-September, pp, 152-57, ISSN No. 0976-9358.

                    6.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_________,  April-September 2015, “Bana’s Perception of History and Historicity in his Semi-historical text the ‘Harshacharitam’’, SHODHA KALPATARU- An International Multidisciplinary Refereed Research Journal, Samyuktanka (Joint Issue) 13-14, April-September, pp. 161-65, ISSN No. 2249-6114. UGC Old list. Refereed.

                  7. ________,  Dec.2017, ‘Prajna Paramitaiyai Namah’-(The Training of the Buddhist Monks in Tibet: The Nature and Function of the ‘Bodhisattva Vrata) , Arts and Education                   International Research Journal, Vol.4, Special Issue, Dec.2017,pp. 165-170, ISSN -2349-1353; IMRF Biannual Peer Reviewed International Journal, SE Impact Factor 2.58, UGC Aproved Journal No. 63780.

    8. __________ Dec.2018, ‘A Brief Historical Investigation in to the Origin, Meaning and Function of the Perception of Kalpavriksha-The Ageless Perennial Tree in the Early          Indian Literary and Archeological Sources’, Global Thought- An International Referred Quarterly Research Journal, Issue 10, year 3, Joint Issue December 2018, pp.11-15,        ISSN No-2456-0898.

6^th-9^th Dec. 2018-- Presented a paper entitled’ Historicity and Textuality of the Kumbh’ at the Crafts Museum, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India organised a 4-day Festival POORNA KALASH: KUMBH, Crafts Museum Auditorium, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The Times of India, Thursday, Dec. 6^th, 2018, p.9.http;/nationalcraftsmuseum.nic.in.

June 14, 2019, Read a paper ‘# ME TOO, # MEN TOO AND #THE PRIDE PARADES OF THE LGBTQ+: EXAMINING THE MEDIA REPORTS ABOUT THE SOCIO-LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THESE GENDER MOVEMENTS IN INDIA’ at the International Conference on Reflections on Gender Equality, Feminism &Language Studies-2019 organised by the IMRF Mysore Chapter of the IMRF Institute for Education &Research, DRPF Macedonia/IIM Australia, IMRF Chapter, Mysore, Karnataka, June 14-15, 2019. www.imrfedu.org

25^th January, 2019-Presented a paper entitled ‘Environmental Consciousness in Literary and Inscriptional Sources’ at a Two-day National Workshop on’ INDIC THOUGHT’ organized by Developing Countries Research Centre (dcrc), University of Delhi and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), 24^th-25^th Jan. 2019.

14^th Oct.2019,  Paper ‘Anna Sattra: Examining the Continuous Journey of a Parallel Religio-Educational Indic Institution in India’ read at the National Conference on Indic Thought’ on 14^th Oct. 2019 at Nehru Memorial Museum Library, Teen Murti House Library Auditorium. Ref. F. No.HRPD-29/2019, Invitation letter 11th OCT.2019.

17^th 0ct. 2021 8^th Parliament of the World’s Religions – whole world and all 7 Continents

Chicago Lecture Series, Swami Vivekananda Chicago Foundation, USA

 Spoke on: ‘An Ounce of Action is better than Tonnes of Talk’ 

Invited Speaker – Role of Research Guide in Higher research work : 6 day International Conference, Department of Sanskrit, Haryana Central University, Mahendragarh, 18 – 23 December 2021.

Invited Speaker – Release of Book “Hampi – Sacred India, Glorious India, French Embassy, Nyaya Marga, Chankya puri, New Delhi, 28^th March, 2022.

Project Investigator- Minor Project Work: University of Delhi Innovation Project Work 2013-15 (Minor Grant of Rs.5,00, 000).

CO-INVESTIGATOR-University of Delhi, Innovation Project 2013-15, Project Code: ‘DDU 202’ titled  “Analytical Modelling, Simulation and Verification of Emerging Nanoscale MULTIGATE Device Structure and Study of Government’s Iniatives for Growth of Electronics in India’’ involving three faculties from different disciplines-Dr. Manoj Saxena, of the department of Electronics as Principal Investigator, Dr. Poonam Kasturi of the department of Electronics and Dr. Radha Madhav Bharadwaj, of the department of   History, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi,  as Project Investigators, under the mentorship of Professor Ramgopal Rao, IIT Bombay, submitted its final report and utilization certificate to the University of Delhi on 30.04.2015. 15 + (10 For Completed Project Report Accepted by the Funding Agency).

April 2014- Supervision of Project under 4-year Under Graduate Programme (FYUP)-

Supervised 32 batches of FYUP Students having continuous evaluation of 55 Marks and Project of 15 Marks in Indian History and Culture paper. Thus I have experience of supervising at least 32 batches of students during the academic year 2013-14 under FYUP Programme of the University of Delhi new syllabus introduced in the year 2013.

                 Award of Excellence and Certificate of Commendation by Govt. Recognised Educational Bodies

IMRF Excellence Award in History Academic  Year-2018-19

26^th July 2019, INTERNATIONAL Multidisciplinary Research Foundation (IMRF – A part of the RATNAPRASAD MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY, INDIA), (A Govt. of India Approved Conference; MHA Vide: F. No. 42180123/cc-1039; MEA: F.No. AA/162/01/2019-923) honoured me with its IMRF Excellence Award in recognition of my consistent superior Performance in HISTORY upon the recommendations of the committee on IMRF ACADEMIC Awards for the academic year 2018-19 on IMRF’S 111^TH International gathering on International Conference on Gender, Diaspora, Cultural Identity, Education, Islamic Studies Delhi 2019 on 26^th July 2019, IMRF Delhi, YHA, Chanakayapuri, New Delhi. MHA Vide: F. No.4218013/cc-1039; MEA:F.No.AA/162/01/2019-923, imrf Delhi, 26^th July 2019.

7^th Jan. 2020, Certificate of Commendation:

I was given a certificate of Commendation for my edited book Reinterpreting Indology and Indian History: Institutions, Intentions, Sources & Issues on the recommendation by their team of Historians as a mark of significant contribution to the History and Indology in India in general and Eastern India  in particular. Ref. Letter of Secretary, Maithili Sahitya Sansthan(1969), Patna on the occasion of my invited talk on 7^th Jan.2020.

Member of  International Academic Bodies:

i.                    Life Member, SSEASR (South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion)- an affiliate body of International Association for the History of Religions- I.A.H.R (Under UNESCO) since 2007

ii.                  Life Member, Societe Asiatique, (Estb.1822), Paris, June 2014, vide letter by the Vice- President of the Society Prof. Jean Filliozat June 2014.

Life Member, Asiatic Society, Kolkata (An Institution of National Importance declared by an Act of Parliament), Ministry of Culture, Government of India vide letter No.11888 dated 13.09.2017.

Member of  National Academic Body:

Life Member, Indian History Congress (I.H.C-LM-00839) Since 1992.

Contribution to the Cultural life of the college:

Served as Staff Advisor, Students Union (1998-99).

Convener, Art and Culture Committee.

Convener, Debating Society (2007-11).

Convener, Dramatics Club and Music Society.

Member, Academic Supervisory Committee.

Member, Gender Sensitizing Committee

Member, Students Activity Board (2009-10, 2010-2011),

Member, Spic-Macay

Member, College Magazine Committee of the College (2011-12; 2014-15, 2016-17, 2019-20).

Convener, College Magazine Committee 2013-14

Convener, Spic-Macay Committee-2012-13;

Member, Research Committee- November 2013-2017.

Member, Academic Development Committee-2016-18, 2019-20

Evaluator – B.A. Programme Scripts, 2021-22

Adjudicator – College Debate – 17^th September 2021.

Webpage Updated as on 24th January 2023

Always provided copies of books in pdf form as well as photocopies on topics related to the syllabus to the students