Faculty Profile

 

Name : Supriya  Varma
Designation : Associate Professor
Centre : Centre for Historical Studies
School : Social Sciences
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Residence : 09971801818, 09313813388
Email : supriyav@jnu.ac.in   varma.supriya@gmail.com
Web Address : http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D (Archaeology) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 
                                    

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Social Archaeology 
                                    

Experience

Have been teaching since 1998 
                                    

Awards & Honours

 
                                    

International Collaboration/Consultancy

 
                                    

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)

Defining Tradition: An Archaeological Perspective, in S Saberwal and S Varma, eds. Traditions in Motion: Religion and Society in History, 2005, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp 23-49

In the Absence of Mounds: Shifting Villages, Pastoralism and Depopulation, in R.C. Heredia and S. F. Ratnagar (eds.), Mobile and Marginalized Peoples: Perspectives from the Past, 2003, Manohar, New Delhi, pp 121-44

The Development of “Harappan Culture” as an Archaeological Label: A Case of Kathiawar, The Indian Historical Review, 1999, Vol XXVI, pp 1-22

Villages Abandoned: The Case for Mobile Pastoralism in Post Harappan Gujarat, Studies in History, 1991, Vol VII, No 2, pp. 278-300

Changing Settlement Patterns in Kathiawar, Studies in History, 1990, Vol VI, No 2, pp. 137-62 
                                  

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3)

Reading archaeological evidence: Ceramic and terracotta production at Indor Khera (200 BCE – 500 CE), Indian Historical Review, 2010, Vol 37, No 2, pp 187-216

Children Playing and Learning: Crafting Ceramics in Ancient Indor Khera, Asian Perspectives, 2010, Vol 49, No 1

Archaeology and the Construction of Identities in Medieval North India, Studies in History, 2008, Vol XXIV, No 2, pp 173-93 
                                    

Patents (if any)

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