Madhura Damle

Assistant Professor

B.A. in Political Science (University of Mumbai, 2006)

Advanced Diploma in Sanskrit (Tilak Maharashtra University, Pune, 2006)

M.A. in Political Science (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2008)

P.G. Diploma in Linguistics (Tilak Maharashtra University, Pune, 2008)

M.Phil. in Political Science (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2011)

Ph.D. in Political Science (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2018)

After finishing my undergraduate studies from Ruia College, University of Mumbai, I joined Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from where I completed M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. For my M.Phil. dissertation I worked on Language and Marxism: Reinterpreting Linguistic Materialism. My doctoral thesis was titled The Nationalization of Marathi: Politics of Print and Language in Maharashtra, 1805-1920. I joined the Presidency University, Kolkata in December 2013. I have also been the Adjunct Faculty in Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore and Guest Teacher in the Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta.

Google Scholar

Talk on The Non-Brahmin Movement, Modernity and Time Travel

Talk on Ideas of Nation: Perspectives from Colonial India

Podcast Shimaga Reforms: Mapping Idea(s) of Obscenity in Colonial Maharashtra

I teach/ have taught the following courses (or portions of them):

UG:

• Indian Political Thought
• Caste and Politics in India 
• Colonialism and Nationalism in India
• Gender Studies  
• Emereging Issues in the Study of Politics
• Modern Political Philosophy

PG:

• Research Methodology
• Culture and Politics in India
• Political Science: Key Concepts and Theories
• Language and Nation
• Gender and Contemporary Political Theory
• Major Issues in Indian Politics
• Civil Society: Issues and Debates
• Civil Society and Democracy in India

PhD : 

• Research Methodology
• Philosophy in Social Sciences                       

Currently I am supervising two Ph.D. students, both working on caste politics in West Bengal.

Member, Maharashtra Studies Group

* (2011) “Review of ‘Religion, Language and Power’ by Nile Green and Mary Searle Chatterjee (eds.)”, Contemporary South Asia, Vol.19, No.2, pp. 216-217 .

* (2012) "Book Review of ‘Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab’ by Farina Mir and  ‘Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue’ by Lisa Mitechell”, Indian Linguistics, Vol. 73, No. 1-4, pp. 251-253. 

* (2014) "Jotirao Phule" and "Poems by Mahatma Jotirao Phule", Indian Litrerature, No. 279, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, pp. 10-18.  [Introductory note on Jotirao Phule and translation of his select poetry]

* (2014) "Poems by Namdeo Dhasal", Indian Litrerature, No. 279, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, pp. 45--48.  [Translation of select poetry]

* (2014) "Processes of (Dis)integration: National", a module for the paper State Politics in India for the project e-pg pathshala.

* (2014) "Processes of (Dis)integration: Regional", a module for the paper State Politics in India for the project e-pg pathshala.

* (2014) "Processes of (Dis)integration: Sub-regional", a module for the paper State Politics in India for the project e-pg pathshala.

* (2015) "Civil Society", in Pradip Basu, ed., Political Sociology, Kolkata: Setu Prakashani.

* (2015) "Jotirao Phule: Father of Non-Brahmin Movement", in Pradip Basu, ed., Social Thinkers of Modern Times, Kolkata: Setu Prakashani.

(2019) “Book Review, Bonita Aleaz and Partha Pratim Basu, eds., Revisiting Qualitative
Methods in Social Science Research”, Socialist Perspective, Vol. 46, No. 1-2 & 3-4, pp. 109-
111.