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Najaf Haider

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Historical Studies,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

304, SSS-III

Off. Phone

011-26704567

Residence

09871575587

nhaider@mail.jnu.ac.in, nhaider@jnu.ac.in, snajafhaider@gmail.com

Personal Webpage

https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/najafhaider/cv.pdf

Qualifications

D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1998

Areas of Interest/Specialization

History of money, banking, credit and international exchange, history of literary culture, book production and circulation, history of secretarial classes, history of Delhi

Experience

Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2010-
Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2004-2010
Lecturer of Medieval Asian History, University of Delhi, 1998-2004

Awards & Honours

* Recipient of a University with Potential for Excellence (UPE II) grant for the project entitled “Memoirs, History and Visual Representation - a study of texts and images from European Archives” (with Dhir Sarangi and Kavita Singh) 2018

* Visiting Professor, Department of History, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 26-29 February, 2020

* Visiting Professor, Sonderforschungsbereich, University of Bonn, December 2017

* Visiting Professor, Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, March 2016

* Erasmus Mundus Fellow, University of Vienna, 2014

* Samir Shamma Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford, 2013

* Visiting Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 2008

* HERMES Postdoctoral Fellow, Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2007

* Indo-French Exchange Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research and Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2006

* Visiting Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla , 2005

* Proxime accessit, Frere Exhibition for Indian Studies, University of Oxford, 1994

* Overseas Research Student Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, U.K., 1992-93 * INLAKS Fellow, University of Oxford, 1990-93

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. ‘Norms of Professional Excellence and Good Conduct in Accountancy Manuals of the Mughal Empire’, International Review of Social History (vol. 56, Special Issue, 2011)

2. 'Structure and Movement of Wages in the Mughal Empire', Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons, ed. Jan Lucassen (Amsterdam, 2008).

3. ‘Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200-1750)’, Money in Asia (1200-1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts, eds. Jane Kate Leonard & Ulrich Theobald (Brill, 2015)
4. 'The Quantity Theory and Mughal Monetary History', Medieval History Journal, vol. 2, no. 2 (1999)
5. 'Precious Metal Flows and Currency circulation in the Mughal Empire', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient: Special Issue 'Money in the Orient' (Leiden, June 1996)

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. ‘Justice, Love and the Creative Imagination in Mughal India’ in Bollywood Islamicate Histories, eds. Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen, Orient Blackswan-Intellect Books, Delhi-Bristol, 2021 (forthcoming)

2. “Violence and Defiance of Authority in Mughal India. A Study of the Shoe Sellers’ Riot of Shahjahanabad”, Studies in History, vol. 36, August 2020

3. ‘Wealth and Status in Indo-Islamic Intellectual Traditions’, Alternative Arguments, Essays in Honour of Surendra Gopal, Primus, Delhi, 2020