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Ranjeeta Dutta

Ranjeeta Dutta
Ranjeeta Dutta
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Historical Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
305, SSS-III
Off. Phone
26704431
Email
ranjeetadutta[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, ranjeeta.dutta[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/ranjeetadutta/cv.pdf
Qualifications

PhD, CHS, JNU 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Medieval and Early Modern History especially southern India. My areas of interest are religion and society, space and regions in history, urban history, public history, and notions of heritage.

Experience

22.5 years 

Awards & Honours
  1. 2nd January 2020 to 30th September 2020, Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University, Germany. Letter of Award dated: 25th March 2019
  2. 2009-2011. Fellow. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
  3. 1994-1997. Senior Research Fellowship in History, University Grants Commission, India
  4. 1992-1994. Junior Research Fellow, University Grants Commission, India
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  1. Associate Editor, Medieval History Journal, Sage, New Delhi. ISSN 0971 -9458.Online ISSN 0973-0753
  2. 2009. Consultant for the project, ‘Preparations of Site Management Plan, Ellora Caves, Aurangabad’, Cultural Resource Conservation Initiative (For The Preservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage), New Delhi. April 15th –June 15th. Complete Project Report submitted. 
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. 2022 ‘The Early Modern Conundrum: Peninsular India and the Idea of Periodisation in a 'Regional' Perspective’, Meena Bhargava and Pratyay Nath, eds., The Early Modern in South Asian History. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp.161-182. ISBN:978-1-009-21537-4
  2. 2021 ‘Temple, Urban Landscape and Production of Space: Development of Srirangam in Early Modern Tamil Region’ Supriya Chaudhuri, ed. Religion and the City in South Asia (Oxford, London, New York: Routledge, September 2022), pp.30-47.
  3. Locating the Self, Community and the Nation: Writing the History of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India, in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Aloka Parasher Sen, eds. Religion and Modernity in India, (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, August 2016), pp.84-106. ISBN 9780199467785
  4. Pilgrimage as a Religious Process: Some Reflections on the Identities of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India, in Indian Historical Review, Vol.37, No.1, June. (New Delhi, Sage, 2010), pp.17-38. ISSN: 0376-9836, Online ISSN: 0975-5977
  5. Politics of Religious Identity: A Muslim Goddess in Śrīvaiṣṇavaism of South India, Studies in History, Volume XIX, Number 2, July-December. (New Delhi. Sage, 2003), Pp.157-84. ISSN-0257-6430; E ISSN-0973-080X.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. 2018. Regions, Identities, And Entangled Geographies. Edited. Summerhill, IIAS Review, Vol.XXIV, No.1 (October 2018), Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. ISSN 0972-1452
  2. From Hagiographies to Biographies: Ramanuja in Tradition and History (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN-13: 978-0-19-809229-2/ISBN-10:0-19-809229-6
  3. Negotiating Religion: Perspectives from Indian History (New Delhi, Manohar, 2012). Co-edited with R.P.Bahuguna and Farhat Nasreen, ISBN 978-81-7304-924-8