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Visiting Professor of History, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Cambridge UniversityIndivar Kamtekar is a historian of modern India, specializing on the social, economic and political changes of the 1940s, about which he has offered new interpretations. He researches colonial state power more generally, and has also written on historical photographs. He has supervised PhD dissertations on a range of themes, and has taught and lectured at a variety of educational institutions in India and abroad.
‘Freedom and the Coercive Power of the Indian State’, Indian History Congress Proceedings, 78th Session, 2017 (published in 2018)
‘The Wartime Paternity of India’s “Licence-Permit” Raj’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 77th Session, 2016 (published in 2017); reprinted in Rafael Kloeber and Manju Ludwig (eds), HerStory – Historical Scholarship between South Asia and Europe (CrossAsia, Heidelberg, 2018) [ISBN: 978-946742-44-9 (Hardcover); ISBN: 978-3-946742-43-2 (PDF)]
History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy (HarperCollins, NOIDA, UP, 2010) (co-authored with Aditya Arya) [ISBN: 978-81-7223-8681]
‘A Different War Dance: State and Class in India 1939-1945’, Past and Present, no.176 (August 2002) (Partly reprinted as ‘England and India, 1939-1945’, in Wm Roger Louis, Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (I.B. Tauris, New York, 2008)
‘The Shiver of 1942’, Studies in History, 18, 1, n.s. (January-June 2002); reprinted in Kaushik Roy (ed), War and Society in Colonial India (OUP, Delhi, 2006)
‘The Fables of Nationalism’, India International Centre Quarterly, vol. 26, no.3 (Monsoon 1999)
‘The Military Ingredient of Communal Violence in Punjab, 1947’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 56th session, held at Calcutta in 1995. [Reprinted in Abstracts of Sikh Studies, vol. IV, no.1, January-March 2002; also reprinted in Gyanesh Kudaisya and Tai Yong Tan (eds), Partition and Postcolonial South Asia: A Reader (Routledge, London, 2008)]
Inlaks Foundation Scholar
M.A. level lecture course: The Colonial State in India, 1857-1947
M.A. level lecture course: Colonial India: Sociological Analysis
B.A. level lecture course: Indian History, 1858-1947
B.A. level lecture course: The Making of Modern India
B.A. level lecture course: Government and Politics in South Asia
B.A. level lecture course: Approaches to South Asia
B.A. level lecture course: South Asia: People, Culture, Development
M.B.A course: ‘Indian Business History’ (course taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)
And other B.A., M.A. and M.Phil. level seminar courses on the Indian National Movement; British Colonial Policies; Social Reform Movements, and Historical Methods.
