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Mohinder Singh

Mohinder Singh
Mohinder Singh
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory,
School of International Studies
Room No
310, SIS (New Building)
Off. Phone
26704798
Email
mohindersingh@mail.jnu.ac.in, mohinder.du@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications
Ph. D.  
Areas of Interest/Specialization

 

Political Thought and Theory: India, Western, Global South; History of political concepts in modern India. 
 
Experience
Joined CCPPT/SIS/JNU in April, 2013
 
Previously taught at
Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi.  
Ramjas College, DU; Motilal Nehru College, DU. 

 
Awards & Honours

 

Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla - Two years Fellowship from August 2008 to July 2010
 
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Book 
Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2015 (Co-authored with Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim et. al.) ISBN: 978-0-19-874553-2 

Articles/Essays & Chapters 
"A Question of Life and Death: Conversion, Self and Identity in Swami Shraddhanand's Autobiography" in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies  Vol. 41, Issue 2, April, 2018 (Print ISSN: 0085-6401 Online ISSN: 1479-0270). 
 
"Tagore on Modernity, Nationalism and ‘the Surplus in Man’ " Economic and Political Weekly (ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846). May, 13, 2017. 

"Crisis and Critique: Diagnosis of “the present” in the Nationalist Discourse in Hindi (1870-1908)" in Critical Studies in Politics, Ed. by Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam, and Sanjay Palshikar. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan (2013)

"Cosmopolitianism" in Indian Political Thought" in Indian Political Thought, Ed. by Pradip K. Dutta and Sanjay Palshikar New Delhi: Oxford University Press. (2013)

"Temporalization of Concepts: Reflections on the Concept of Unnati in Hindi (1870-1900)" in Contributions to the History of Concepts (Berghahn Journals), Volume 7, Issue 1, 2012. (Peer reviewed. ISSN: 1807-9326 (Print)) 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Publication in Hindi 
"Jantantra ka Jan aur Tantra: Kuchh Saidhantik Prashn” in Alochana, Oct. 2014. 

Patents (if any)
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