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Janaki Nair

Janaki Nair
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Historical Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
119
Off. Phone
011-26704477
Email
janakinair@mail.jnu.ac.in , vadasserijanaki@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/jnair/cv.pdf
Qualifications

PhD

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Modern Indian History : Legal, Urban, Social and Cultutal History, Feminism and Visual Culture with Special Reference to Mysore/Karnataka 

 

Experience

Previously worked at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Madras, and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 

 

Awards & Honours

New India Book Prize 2005 

 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Transnational Group of German Historical Institute, London: On Histories of Poverty and Education  

 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Mysore Modern: Reconceptualising the Region under Princely Rule (University of Minnesota Press, 2011; Orient Blackswan, 2012) 

The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, January 2005; second printing November 2005)

Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore (Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998)

Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1996) 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

"Textbook Controversies and the Demand for a Past: Public Lives of Indian History" History Workshop Journal, 82, October 2016

Indian Urbanism and the Terrain of the Law Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50 No. 36 (05 September, 2015) 

Mysore's Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition's Imagined Economics' Modern Asian Studies, 47 (5), 2013 ,pp. 1549-1587