Janaki Nair - Jawaharlal Nehru University

Janaki Nair - Jawaharlal Nehru University

Janaki Nair
Professor
Office:
119, SSS I
91-11-26704477
[email protected]
Education:
PhD, Syracuse University, History, 1991
MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Modern History, 1983
BA, Bangalore University, History, Economics, Political Science, 1976
Research Interests:
Social, political and cultural history of Mysore/Karnataka; legal history; urban history; feminism;
visual culture
Profile:
Employment
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Professor, 2009Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Professor, 2002-2009
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Visiting Fellow, 2000-2002
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Visiting Fellow, 1998-2000
Madras Institute of Development Studies, Fellow, 1994-1998
Fellowships, Grants, and Honours
New India Foundation Book Prize, 2005 for The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s
Twentieth Century
Prince Claus Fund Fellowship, The Netherlands, 2000-2002
Sephis Fellowship, The Netherlands, 1998-2000
John Saville Award, UK, 1997 to make the film After the Gold (60 mins)
Post Doctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University, 1993-94
Publications
Books
Mysore Modern: Reconceptualising the Region under Princely Rule, University of Minnesota
Press, 2011; Orient Blackswan, 2012
The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century
Oxford University Press, January 2005; second printing November 2005
Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics
in Princely Mysore, Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998
Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History, Delhi: Kali for Women, 1996
Edited Books
With Anjan Ghosh and Tapati Guha Thakurta, Theorising the Present: Essays for Partha
Chatterjee, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011
With Mary John, A Question of Silence: Sexual Economies of India, Kali for Women, 1998
Important Articles
“Mysore’s Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition and its Imagined Economies” Modern Asian
Studies, forthcoming.
“The ‘Composite’ State and Its ‘Nation’: Karnataka’s Reunification Revisited Economic and
Political Weekly (19th November 2011):
“Eighteenth Century Passages to the History of Mysore” in Partha Chatterjee and Raziuddin
Aquil eds. History in the Vernacular (Delhi Permanent Black, 2008)
"'Memories of Underdevelopment': The Identities of language in Contemporary Karnataka"
Economic and Political Weekly 21.42 (October 12, 1996)
"On the Question of Female Agency in Indian Feminist Historiography" Gender and History, 6.1
(1994)
"Uncovering the Zenana: Visions of Indian Womanhood in Englishwomen's Writings", Journal
of Women's History, 2.1 (Spring 1990)
Lecture Courses
Number
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Title
Work, Culture and Politics: Comparative
Histories of Labour
Capitalism/Colonialism
The City in Modern History
Outline and Readings
PDF
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Seminar Courses
Number
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Title
Popular Protests and Politics 1900-1947
Problems in Economic History of Modern India I