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Nonica Datta

Nonica Datta
Nonica Datta
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Historical Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
309
Off. Phone
26704456
Email
nonicadatta[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in , nonica.datta[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/nonicadatta/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph.D  Cambridge University (UK)

MPhil Centre for Historical, Jawaharlal Nehru University

MA  Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Modern South Asia; Contemporary History; Histories of Colonialism, Race, Mapping, Borders, Boundaries & Frontiers; Historical Cartography; Partition (1947, with a focus on the history of Punjab); Comparative Asian Perspectives; History & Memory; Histories of Landscapes & Violence, Microhistory: Communitarian and Caste Identities; Women’s History; Heritage Studies.

Experience

1998-2015: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Miranda House, Delhi University

Awards & Honours
  • Book: Violence, Martyrdom and Partition: A Daughter’s Testimony (Oxford University Press, 2009), shortlisted for the Vodafone-Crossword Award, 2009.
  • 2012 Visiting Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • 2011 Visiting Professor, University of Toronto
  • 2007- 2008 Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 2006-2009 Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
  • 2004-2005 Deputy Director, Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University
  • 1990-1993 Awarded Cambridge Nehru Fellowship
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Books

Authored:

•    Violence, Martyrdom and Partition: A Daughter’s Testimony (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009; reprint 2010; 2011, paperback 2012).

•    Forming an Identity: A Social History of the Jats (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999).

 Edited

•    Jallianwala Bagh, VN Datta, with an Introduction by Nonica Datta (Penguin, 2021).

•    Britannica: Indian History: Modern (Encyclopaedia Britannica: India, 2003) edited by Nonica Datta.

Articles/ Chapters

•  ‘Cities and Rehabilitation Following Partition in 1947’, in Martino Stierli et al (ed.), The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 22, 2022), pp. 110-116.

•  'A Conspiracy that Stirred A Nation’s Consciousness’, in Rajesh Ramachandran (ed.), Martyrdom to Freedom: 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh (Rupa, 2019), 37-47.

•  ‘Honoured Mother and ‘Honour’ Killing: Ammaji in NH 10 (2015)’, in Saswati Sengupta, Sharmila Purkayastha, Shampa Roy (eds.), ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety (New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 259-274.

• ‘Memory and History: A Daughter’s Testimony’, in Charu Gupta (ed.), Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012), 287-317.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. ‘Reframing Partition: Memory, Testimony, History’, Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle (July 2017), Humboldt (Berlin), 61-93.
  2. ‘Dayanand Saraswati’, in Knut. A. Jacobson et al. (ed.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013), 453-460.
  3. ‘Transcending Religious Identities: Amrita Pritam and Partition’, in Anjali Roy and Nandi Bhatia (eds.) Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement (New Delhi: Pearson Education, 2008), pp. 1-25