Mridu Rai

Professor

BA, History, Miranda House, Delhi University

MA, History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

MPhil, History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

MPhil, History, Columbia University, New York

PhD, History, Columbia University, New York

My doctoral work, at Columbia University, examined the question of why religion and politics became intermeshed in the expression of resistance in Kashmir. It looked at state-making and legitimating practices in colonial India to draw out the transformation of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from a dominion ruled by a Hindu into a Hindu state. Following my doctoral work, I taught at various universities in the United States, including Columbia University, Tufts University, Bowdoin College and Yale University. In 2010-2011, I was a research fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Centre for Historical Studies at Princeton University. I then moved to Trinity College, Dublin, where I taught until joining Presidency University in May 2014.

I teach in various different areas of South Asian history. I have also taught courses in imperial/colonial history. In all my courses I emphasize the importantce of inter-disciplinarity and try, as far as possible, to employ comparative perspectives. 

For appointments held and for a sample of courses taught, please refer to my CV.

At Presidency, along with my colleagues, I supervise MA (final year) dissertations. This is a year-long programme of research and writing that was begun in 2013 and that I have joined in since July 2014. 

Presidency University has just begun a full fledged doctoral programme and I have been assigned supervision of one of the earliest students in the programme.

Please refer to my CV.

Please refer to my CV.