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Najaf Haider

Najaf Haider

Najaf Haider
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
Email
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

 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.