Ph. D., (CHS, JNU), New Delhi
Modern South Asian history with a special focus on social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern India; connected histories of politics, power and proselytisation in colonial India; studies on Sanātan Dharma, Mahatma Gandhi, RSS, and Hindutva.
8 Years
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Co-Director of an ICSSR-sponsored project on “Rewriting Malabar Tragedy: Moplahs and the Trajectories of a Forgotten ‘Genocide,’” for the year 2024-2026.
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Director, ICHR-sponsored project on ‘RSS and the Idea of Non-theocratic Hindu Rashtra,’ for the year 2023-2025.
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Junior Research Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi from October 2006 to March 2007.
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Gold Medal in M.A. at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India, 1999.
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M. Christhu Doss, “Pedagogy of the Secluded Women and Changing Femininities in Colonial India, 1830s-1930s,” Pedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, Routledge, 16 May 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00309230.2023.2210067?journalCode=cpdh20
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M. Christhu Doss, “Religions, Women and Discourse of Modernity in Colonial South India” Religions 13, no. 12: 1225, E-ISSN: 2077-1444. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/12/1225
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Irmgard Den Hollander and Christhu Doss, “Hollowed Crowns, Composite India’s Value Crisis and the Never-Ending Business of Education,” South Asia Research, Vol. 38(3), November 2018, pp. 219-228 (Sage Publications, ISSN 0262-7280); UGC Care List S.No. 22939; Journal No. 33378. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728018800764
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Christhu Doss, “Indian Christians and the Making of Composite Culture in South India,” South Asia Research, Vol. 38(3): November 2018, pp. 247-267 (Sage Publications, ISSN 0262-7280); UGC Care List S.No. 22939 Journal No. 33378. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728018798982
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M. Christhu Doss, “Sandwiched Nehru: Religious Minorities and Indian Secularism,” Economic and Political Weekly [Special Article] Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 July 2018, pp. 38-47 (ISSN 0012-9976); UGC Care List S.No. 6368 Journal No. 12473. https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/29/special-articles/sandwiched-nehru.html
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M. Christhu Doss, “Repainting Religious Landscape: Economics of Conversion and Making of Rice Christians in Colonial South India (1781-1800)” Studies in History, Vol. 30, N0. 2, August 2014, pp. 179-200 (Sage Publications, ISSN: 0257-6430). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0257643014534370
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M. Christhu Doss, “Missionary Insurgency and Marginality of Modernity in South India,” South Asia Research, Sage Publications, Vol. 33 No. 3, November 2013, pp. 223-244. (Sage Publications, ISSN 0262-7280). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728013504665
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M. Christhu Doss, "Understanding the Cultural Contours of Sanātan Dharma Through Gandhian Lens," Itihas Darpan, Vol. 29 (2), ISSN 0974-3065, UGC Care Journal ID 101002593, Akhila Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Yojana, June/July 2025, New Delhi, pp. 161-178.
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M. Christhu Doss, "Ambivalent Egalitarians? Pietists and the Pedagogy of the 'Pariah' in Modern South India during the Nineteenth Century" Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, Routledge, 21 August 2024.
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M. Christhu Doss, “Gandhiji and RSS: The Cultural Grounding of Social Representations,” Indian Historical Review, Sage, Vol. 50, No. 1, June 2023, pp. 1-20. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03769836231173189
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M. Christhu Doss, “Colonialism and Communalism: Religion and Changing Identities in Modern India,” Routledge, London and New York, 2024. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Colonialism_and_Communalism/G3JV0AEACAAJ?hl=en
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M. Christhu Doss, “India After the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind,” Routledge, London and New York, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/India-after-the-1857-Revolt-Decolonising-the-Mind/Doss/p/book/9781032349220