Ph. D., (CHS, JNU), New Delhi
Modern South Asian history with a special focus on social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern India; connected histories of politics, power and proselytisation in colonial India; studies on Sanātan Dharma, Mahatma Gandhi, RSS, and Hindutva.
8 Years
Co-Director of an ICSSR-sponsored project on “Rewriting Malabar Tragedy: Moplahs and the Trajectories of a Forgotten ‘Genocide,’” for the year 2024-2026.
Director, ICHR-sponsored project on ‘RSS and the Idea of Non-theocratic Hindu Rashtra,’ for the year 2023-2025.
Junior Research Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi from October 2006 to March 2007.
Gold Medal in M.A. at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India, 1999.
M. Christhu Doss, “Pedagogy of the Secluded Women and Changing Femininities in Colonial India, 1830s-1930s,” Pedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, Routledge, 16 May 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00309230.2023.2210067?journalCode=cpdh20
M. Christhu Doss, “Religions, Women and Discourse of Modernity in Colonial South India” Religions 13, no. 12: 1225, E-ISSN: 2077-1444. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/12/1225
Irmgard Den Hollander and Christhu Doss, “Hollowed Crowns, Composite India’s Value Crisis and the Never-Ending Business of Education,” South Asia Research, Vol. 38(3), November 2018, pp. 219-228 (Sage Publications, ISSN 0262-7280); UGC Care List S.No. 22939; Journal No. 33378. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728018800764
Christhu Doss, “Indian Christians and the Making of Composite Culture in South India,” South Asia Research, Vol. 38(3): November 2018, pp. 247-267 (Sage Publications, ISSN 0262-7280); UGC Care List S.No. 22939 Journal No. 33378. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728018798982
M. Christhu Doss, “Sandwiched Nehru: Religious Minorities and Indian Secularism,” Economic and Political Weekly [Special Article] Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 July 2018, pp. 38-47 (ISSN 0012-9976); UGC Care List S.No. 6368 Journal No. 12473. https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/29/special-articles/sandwiched-nehru.html
M. Christhu Doss, “Repainting Religious Landscape: Economics of Conversion and Making of Rice Christians in Colonial South India (1781-1800)” Studies in History, Vol. 30, N0. 2, August 2014, pp. 179-200 (Sage Publications, ISSN: 0257-6430). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0257643014534370
M. Christhu Doss, “Missionary Insurgency and Marginality of Modernity in South India,” South Asia Research, Sage Publications, Vol. 33 No. 3, November 2013, pp. 223-244. (Sage Publications, ISSN 0262-7280). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0262728013504665
M. Christhu Doss, "Understanding the Cultural Contours of Sanātan Dharma Through Gandhian Lens," Itihas Darpan, Vol. 29 (2), ISSN 0974-3065, UGC Care Journal ID 101002593, Akhila Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Yojana, June/July 2025, New Delhi, pp. 161-178.
M. Christhu Doss, "Ambivalent Egalitarians? Pietists and the Pedagogy of the 'Pariah' in Modern South India during the Nineteenth Century" Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, Routledge, 21 August 2024.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00309230.2024.2382399M. Christhu Doss, “Gandhiji and RSS: The Cultural Grounding of Social Representations,” Indian Historical Review, Sage, Vol. 50, No. 1, June 2023, pp. 1-20. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03769836231173189
M. Christhu Doss, “Colonialism and Communalism: Religion and Changing Identities in Modern India,” Routledge, London and New York, 2024. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Colonialism_and_Communalism/G3JV0AEACAAJ?hl=en
M. Christhu Doss, “India After the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind,” Routledge, London and New York, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/India-after-the-1857-Revolt-Decolonising-the-Mind/Doss/p/book/9781032349220