Prof. Sanjeev Kumar H.M.

Designation: Professor, Department of Political Science

E-mail: skumarhm@polscience.du.ac.in; sanjeevp2009@gmail.com 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

As Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi (since 19 August 2015 till date).

As Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi (20 July 2011 - 18 August 2015).

As Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (February 2004 - July 2011).

As Guest Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Karnataka Arts College, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka (July 2001 - June 2003).

ACADEMIC PROFILE

SSLC

Secondary Education Board, Bangalore.
1993, Ist Division

PU-II

P.U. Board, Bangalore
1995, 1st Division

B.A.

Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka
1998, 1st Division

M.A.

Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka
2000, 1st Division

M. Phil.

Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka
2002, 1st Division 

Ph.D.

Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka
1st Division, 2005

AREAS OF INTEREST

Islamic thought and International Relations, the history of Islamic philosophy, the politics of Muslim identity and current world order, Islam and the West in contemporary global affairs, the representation of Muslim identity in Hindi cinema, the history of ideas in South Asia, the epistemic foundations of Indian intellectual traditions, continental philosophy and, philosophy of science.

He has also worked in the areas pertaining to democratization in South Asia, Pakistan factor in India’s security and foreign policy and the domestic debates in India on the nuclearisation of subcontinental security.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  1. i)  U.G. Classes: 10 years
  2. ii)  P.G. Classes: 13 years

RESEARCH PROFILE

1. Ph.D. entitled: ‘Attitude of Indian Political Parties Towards India-Pakistan Relations’

2. M. Phil. Dissertation: ‘Dilemmas of Indo-Pakistan Relations - The BJP Approach’

3. Ongoing Research Activities:

(i) Research Project

Leading ICSSR sponsored Major Research Project entitled ‘Popular Imaginaries and Discourses on Politics in India: Exploring Cultural Narratives as the Sites of Knowledge Construction’ as Project Director with 9 scholars from different Indian Universities and colleges. (INR 40 Lakhs, 2017)

(ii) Research Group

Leading Research Group entitled ‘Modern South Asian Thinkers’ hosted by the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi wherein 40 scholars are working towards compiling a text on the ‘History of Ideas in South Asia’.

RESEARCH GUIDANCE

  1. Years of Experience in Research Guidance: 08
  2. Ph. D Students currently registered: 07 (06 DU + 01 SAU)
  3. M. Phil.: 01 awarded (DU, 2017)
  4. MA Dissertations supervised (08, SAU)

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

A) Books

Sanjeev Kumar HM (co.edr.), Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions - Essays in Honour of S.S.Patagundi, New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2016. [ISBN: 978-93-83848-23-2]

Sanjeev Kumar HM and Dev N. Pathak, (Ed). Political Processes in India, New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2016. [ISBN: 978-93-83848-18-8 ]

Sanjeev Kumar HM, Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: Perspectives on India- Pakistan Relations, New Delhi: Uppal, 2007, xii, 220 pp. [ISBN 81-7658-041-4]

B) Research Papers (Self Authored):

  1. ‘Metonymies of Fear: Islamophobia and the Making of Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema’, Society and Culture in South Asia, 2(2), July 2016, pp.233-255. [ISSN: 2393-8617]
  2. ‘Deconstructing India Pakistan Conflict: Perspectives from the Epistemic Conceptions of South Asian Regional Security’, in Sanjeev Kumar HM (co. edr.), Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions - Essays in Honour of S.S.Patagundi, New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2016. [ISBN: 978-93-83848-23-2]
  3. ‘Responding to Western Critiques of the Muslim World: Deconstructing the Cliché of Islamophobia and the Genealogies of Islamic Extremism’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2015.1037247, 2015, pp.1-20. [ISSN: 1469- 3542 (Online)] Volume 42 Number 4, October 2015, pp. 579-598 [ISSN 1353: 0194] (Print)
  4. ‘The Problem of Consent and an Incohesive Regional Structure: The Limits of India’s Soft Power and the Failure of its Neighborhood Policy in South Asia’, Political Discourse, 1(1), June 2015, pp.83-107. [ISSN: 2395-2229]
  5. ‘Dehumanising the Dalit: Understanding Lower Caste Alienation in India through the Gramscian Approach’, Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics, 3 (1), Spring 2015, pp. 19-44. [ISSN: 2214-3211]
  6. ‘Nuclear Weaponisation and the Nature of Conflict in South Asia’, Turkish Journal of Politics, 5 (2) Winter 2014, pp. 83-99.[ ISSN:2146-1988]
  7. ‘Contesting Identity: Islam’s Existential Crisis’, International Studies, 49 (3&4), July & October2012 (printed 2014), pp. 423-436. [ISSN 0020-8817]
  8. ‘Reconceptualising Deterrence: Nudging Toward Rationality in Middle Eastern Rivalries’ (Review Article), E-International Relations (MAR 3, 2014). http://www.eir.info/2014/03/03/review-reconceptualising-deterrence/
  9. ‘Constructing the Nation’s Enemy: Hindutva, popular Culture and the Muslim ‘other’ in Bollywood cinema’, Third World Quarterly, 34:3, 2013, pp. 458-469. [ISSN 0143- 6597 (P)]
  10. ‘Globalisation and the Predicaments of Shared Cultural Spaces: Neo-liberal Reforms and the status of Indian Muslims’, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, 7(2), 2013, pp. 1-12. [ISSN 2324-755X]

11.‘The Pakistan Factor in India’s Domestic Politics’, South Asian Survey, 18(1), January-June 2011, pp. 63-80. [ISSN:0971-5231]

  1. ‘Contested Beliefs and Fractured Faiths: The Dyslexia of Nationalisms and the Deepening Subcontinental Divide’, Turkish Journal of Politics, 2(2), Winter 2011, pp. 89-101.
  2. Modernity, De-Secularising Public Sphere and the Predicaments of Democratisation in South Asia’, FPRC Journal No. 9, 2011, Focus: India and South Asia, Foreign Policy Research Centre, New Delhi, pp. 249-262. (www.fprc.in) [ISSN 2277–2464]

14.‘Competing Conceptions of Nationhood: Cultural Dimensions of India-Pakistan Conflict and the Sub-Continental Security Dynamics’, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, USA. 5 (9), 2010, pp. 203-212. [ISSN: 1833-1882]

  1. ‘Internal Dynamics of Sub-Continental Security: Indo Pak Tensions and the Political Response’, India Quarterly, 66 (1), Jan-March 2010, pp. 35-50.[ ISSN: 0974-9284]

16.‘Myths of Democracy and the Travesty of Peace: Contending Theories of International Relations and South Asia’s tryst with Conflicts’, Nucleus, IX/X, 2009, pp. 151-160. [ISSN: 0972-7523]

  1. ‘Post-September 11 crisis in International Relations and the State of Multicultural Societies’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLIV (3), 17-23, January 2009, pp. 47-55. [ISSN: 00129976, ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846]
  2. ‘Contesting Modernity: Crises of Democratization in South Asia’, India Quarterly, LXIV (4) Oct- Dec 2008, pp. 124-155.

19.‘Dynamics of Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy and the Shaping of Indo-US Relations’, Indian Journal of Political Science, LXIX (3) July-Sept 2008, pp. 673- 680. [ISSN 0019-5510]

  1. ‘India-U.S. Relations in Transition and the Emerging Political Equations in South Asia’, Indian Journal of Politics, XLII (1-2), Jan-June 2008, pp. 145-158
  2. ‘Challenges of Foreign Policy Making in an Era of Globalization: Cross-Border Terrorism and the Management of India-Pakistan Relations’, Indian Journal of Politics, XLI (3&4). July - December 2007, pp. 181-192.

22.‘Foreign Policy Position of the Bhartiya Janata Party towards India-Pakistan Relations’, Indian Journal of Political Science, LXVIII (2) April-June 2007, pp. 275- 291. [ISSN 0019-5510]

  1. ‘Democratic Paralysis in South Asia: Major Issues and India’s Concerns’, India Quarterly, LXII (3), July-Sept 2006, pp. 125-151.
  2. ‘Domestic Politics of National Security: Challenges and Compulsions under Multi- Party Coalition Governments’, Indian Journal of Political Science, LXVII (2), April - June 2006, pp. 221-232. [ISSN 0019-5510]
  3. ‘Indo-Pakistan Relations – Issues and Problems’, Indian Journal of Politics, XXXVII (4), Oct - December 2003, pp. 96-108.

C) Research Papers (Co-Authored)

  1. ‘Cinematic Construction of Other: A case of Performing Pakistan in Hindi Cinema', in Sasanka Perera and Dev N. Pathak (eds.), Performative Communications: Culture and Politics in South Asia (New Delhi: Routledge, forthcoming).
  2. Introduction, ‘Mapping India’s Internal and External Politics’, in Sanjeev Kumar HM (co.edr.), Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions - Essays in Honour of S.S.Patagundi, New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2016.[ISBN: 978-93-83848-23-2]
  3. ‘Debates on Secularism: Minority and Majority Communalism’, in Sanjeev Kumar HM and Dev N. Pathak, (Ed). Political Processes in India, New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2016, pp.135-159. [ISBN: 978-93-83848-18-8]
  4. ‘A Mystical Search for Identity: Mapping the Contributions of Shishunala Sharif and Mirabai to India’s Cultural History’, International Journal of Religious Thoughts, 1(4) Winter 2012, pp. 17-34.
  5. ‘The Politics of Muslim Identity and the Nature of Public Imagination in India: Media and Films as Major Determinants’, European Journal of Economic and Political Studies (EJEPS), 4(1), summer 2011, pp. 171-187. [P-ISSN: 1307-6000]
  6. ‘Crises of Modernity: The Problems of Democratization and Peace in South Asia’, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, USA, 5 (5), 2010, pp. 275-286. [ISSN: 1833-1882]
  7. ‘Capitalism, Multiculturalism and the Global Identity of Islam’, European Journal of Economic and Political Studies (EJEPS), 3(1), Summer 2010, pp.61-81. [P-ISSN: 1307-6000]
  8. ‘Parody of Democracy and the Illusions of Peace: Contesting Conflict with Peace Theories and the Subcontinental Experience with War and Democracy’, Indian Journal of Political Science, LXXI, (1), Jan-March 2010, pp. 41-52. [ISSN 0019- 5510]
  9. ‘Advent of Right-Wing Neo-Liberal Modernism and the State of Multiculturalism: Reasons for Violent Assertions of Identity in Capitalist Societies’, Indian Journal of Politics, XLIII (1) Jan-March 2009, pp. 187-202.[ ISSN: 0303 - 9957]

INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

‘Reorientalism and the Place of Islam in Contemporary International Relations’, in ATINER 13th Annual International Conference on Politics and International Relations, ATINER, Athens, Greece. (June 15-18, 2015)

‘Tracing the Roots of Violence in Religion: Problematising the Western Perspectives of Islam and the Changing Contours of International Relations’, in The Annual International Studies Convention (AISC) 2015 on Power, Resistance and Justice in the International System: Perspectives from the South’, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (March 22-23, 2015)

Discussant for presentations on ‘Progressive Writers’Association: A Case for South Asian Literary Imagination’ and ‘Melodramatic South Asia: Interface of Performative and Cinematic Popular, in The International Seminar on ‘South Asia?: Explorations of the Region from Within and Without’, Department of Sociology, FSS, South Asian University. (February 6, 2015)

‘Bollywood’s Misinterpretation of a Muslim Terrorist: Hindi Cinema’s Fetishism with Islamophobia and Its Misplaced Notions of Social Conflicts’, in The Second European Conference on the Social Sciences (ECSS 2014), Brighton, East Sussex, U.K. (July 3-6, 2014).

‘Metonymies of Fear: Islamophobia in Hindi Cinema’ (as a member of Conference Panel 55, ‘Representing Islam: Aesthetics, Gender, Ideology’), in the FILM AND MEDIA 2014: Visions of Identity - Global Film and Media, The Fourth Annual London Film and Media Conference, Academic Conferences London, U.K., at the Institute of Education Conference Centre, University of London, UK. (June26-28 2014)

‘Framing of the Global Jihadi: Towards the Critique of Bollywood’s Representation of Indian Muslims’, in Seventh International Conference on Global Studies, Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, (19-21 June, 2014),

‘Reimagining Globalization and the Emerging World Order: Karl Polanyi, Robert Cox, and the Critique of Neorealist Reductionism’, Seventh International Conference on Global Studies, Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, (19-21 June, 2014).

‘The Epistemology of Violence: State Construction, Nation Building and the Foundations of Conflict in South Asia’, in the International Conference on South Asia in Global Perspective: Democracy, Human Rights and Nation Building, Deptt. of Pol. Sci., JNV University, Jodhpur and RC-18, International Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, at JNV University, Jodhpur (February 21-22 2014).

‘Islamists, the Muslim World and the Western Understanding of Terrorism: Has the Need for Hermeneutics in the Religion of Islam Become an Exigency?’, in The Annual International Studies Convention, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (10 - 12 December 2013)

‘Globalisation, Popular Culture and Images of Islam: Portrayal of Muslims in Bollywood Cinema, Ramifications for Indian Muslim Diaspora’, 5th Global Conference-Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues, Inter-Disciplinary. Net, U.K., Mansfield College, Oxford, U.K. (29th June – 1st July 2012)

‘Globalisation and the Predicaments of Shared Cultural Spaces: Neo-liberal Reforms  and the status of Indian Muslims’, 7th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Common ground Publishing, University of Illinois, U.S.A,  Universidad Abad Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain. (25th -28th June 2012)

‘Capitalism, Globalisation, Cultural Landscape and Rural Tourism’, 7th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Common ground Publishing, University of Illinois, U.S.A, Universidad Abad Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain. (25th - 28th June 2012)

‘Transmitting Mysticism through Colloquial Wisdom: the Contributions of

Shishunala Sharif and Kabir Das to Sufism’, in the 3rd International Seminar on Peaceful Co-existence with focus on Mysticism and Spirituality in Islam and Indian Religions, Al-Mustafa International University and Al-Mustafa Islamic Research Society, New Delhi. (11-12 March 2012)

‘Competing Conceptions of Nationhood: Cultural Dimensions of India-Pakistan Conflict and the Sub-Continental Security Dynamics’, in the Fifth Interdisciplinary Social Sciences International Conference, Common Ground Publishing, University of Illinois, USA., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. (2nd-5th August 2010)

‘Crises of Modernity: The Problems of Democratisation and Peace in South Asia’, the Fifth Interdisciplinary Social Sciences International Conference, Common Ground Publishing, University of Illinois, USA., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. (2nd-5th August 2010)

‘Holding Peace for Ransom: Nuclear Weaponisation and the Problem of Conflict Resolution in South Asia’, in the International Seminar on Education and Peace, Mumbai. (15th-16th May 2010)

‘Globalisation, Islam’s Existential Strains and the Problem of Co-Existence’ in The First International Seminar on Peaceful Co- Existence in Islam and Indian Religions, Al-Mustafa International University, Iran, New Delhi. (6th -7th March 2010)

‘Schisms in a Multi-Religious Society and Socio-Political Conflicts: The Indian Experience’, in the 3rd International Congress of Social Philosophy, organized at the S.V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh (7th-9th May 2003).

NATIONAL SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

‘Growing Urbanization and the Problems of Differently abled Persons’, in the National Seminar on Urbanization in India: Trends and Issues, Amar Singh (P.G.) College, Lakhoti, Bulandshahr, U.P. (13th-14th February 2006)

‘Foreign Policy of BJP towards Issues of India-Pakistan Relations’, in the 26th Indian Social Science Congress: Focal Theme: The Challenges to Democracy in India: From Critique to Construction, Indian Academy of Social Science, Allahabad with IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal. (3rd-7th December 2003)

‘Domestic Politics of Indo-Pakistan Relation in a Coalition Era’, 52nd All India Conference of Indian Political Science Association, Indian Political Science Association and the Dept. of Political Science, C.C.S. University, Meerut, U.P. (10th-
12th October 2003)

‘Globalisation and the Welfare of the Physically Challenged Persons’, in the 4th State Level Conference of the Karnataka State Political Science Teachers’ Association, Focal theme - Democracy & Diversity, Karnataka State Political Science Teachers’ Association, Shimoga, Karnataka. (7th-8th February 2003)

‘Cross-Border Terrorism and Indo Pakistan Relations’, in the 3rd State Level Conference of the Karnataka State Political Science Teachers’ Association, Karnataka University Political Science College Teachers’ Forum, Dharwad, Karnataka. (9th-10th February 2002)

INVITED TALKS

‘Critiquing the Western Epistemology on Human Rights: Reflections from the Indian Intellectual Traditions’, in the UGC National Seminar on Toleration and Syncretism: Human Rights in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, organized by Department of History, Calicut University, Kerala. (1-3 March, 2017)

Chaired parallel session on ‘The Borders we often Discuss’, in the International Conference on Borders and Border Studies: The South Asian Perspective, organized by the Department of International Studies, South Asian University; The Association for Borderlands Studies; Borders in Globalization; and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. (7March 2017)

‘Scientific Methods and their Applications to Social Phenomena’, in the 15 days’ National Workshop on ‘Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Contemporary Pedagogy’, organized by Department of History & Indian Culture and Women’s Studies & Research Centre, under MHRD’s Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya National Teachers’ Mission Faculty Development Centre, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. (8 January 2017)

‘Critical Traditions in Qualitative Research’, in the 15 days’ National Workshop on ‘Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Contemporary Pedagogy’, organized by Department of History & Indian Culture and Women’s Studies & Research Centre, under MHRD’s Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya National Teachers’ Mission Faculty Development Centre, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. (8 January 2017)

‘The Politics of exclusion and everyday resistance: Images from Hindi cinema’, organized by the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and
Exclusion - School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi. (9 November 2016)

‘Deontology, the Age of Reason and the Indian Intellectual Traditions’, in the ICPR sponsored National Conference on ‘A Paradigm of Integral Human Development in the Thoughts of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay’ organized by Academy of Comparative Philosophy & Religion, Belgavi, Karnataka. (21-23 May, 2016)

‘Philosophy of Science and the Indian Intellectual Tradition’, in the ICSSR sponsored 15 days’ Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences, organized by School of Open Learning, Punjab University, Chandigarh. (22 April, 2016)

‘Rights of the Persons with Disability’, Seminar on Political Representation of the Disabled in the Parliament SGND Khalsa College, Delhi University (17 September, 2015)

‘Understanding U.S. Imperialism’, ICWA, New Delhi sponsored Seminar cum Panel Discussion on Indo-US Relations: The Road Map Ahead, School of Social Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (28 March, 2015)

‘Problematising Dalit Consciousness and Inclusive Politics in India’, ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Views on Social Justice, Caste based discrimination and Dalit Identity, organized by Ambedkar Centre and Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Panjab University, Chandigarh (27 March, 2015)

‘Radical Nationalism and the framing of the Minority: Imagery of Indian Muslims in Bollywood Cinema’, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi sponsored National Conference on Minority Rights in India: Problems, Experiences and Apprehensions, Department of Political Science- USOL and Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Panjab University, Chandigarh (18 March, 2015).

‘Coalition Culture in the shadow of Hindutva Politics’, National Seminar on Coalition Governments in Indian Politics: Challenges and Possibilities, Govt. Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia PG College, Shivpuri, MP (14-15 March, 2015)

Chaired technical session in The International Seminar on ‘Performative Communication: Culture and Politics in South Asia’, Jointly organized by The Centre for Culture, Media and Governance (JMI) and Department of Sociology, South Asian University, at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (January 20-21, 2015) ‘Images of Pakistan in Bollywood Cinema’.

‘Ambedkar, Gandhi and the Idea of India’, National Seminar on The Relevance of Gandhi and Ambedkar to the Contemporary Society, M.S.B Arts and Commerce College, Davengere, Karnataka (18 October, 2014) (Inaugural Function Chief Guest)

‘Framing the Other: Debating the Role of Identity Politics in Indian Democracy’, National Seminar on Identity Politics and India’s Democracy, K.LE. Society’s Lingaraj College, Belgaum, Karnataka (October 13, 2014) (Keynote Address)

‘Traces of Radical Nationalism: Islam and Indian Muslims in thought of Dr. Ambedkar’, International Seminar on Understanding Dr. Ambedkar’s Concept of Dhamma: Transforming Self and Society, School for Ambedkar Studies, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, (14-15 April, 2014)

‘The Challenge of Neoliberalism and the Location of SAARC in the Global Imaginary’, ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on SAARC: Problems and Prospects, University School of Open Learning (Political Science), Panjab University, Chandigarh (24-25 March, 2014)

‘Karl Polanyi, Robert Cox and the Re-Imagination of a New World Order’, International Seminar on Global Politics and Governance in 21st Century: Emerging Trends and Global Concerns, Department of Political Science, School for Ambedkar Studies, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow (22-23 March, 2014)

‘Limits of Soft Power and the Failure of India’s Neighbourhood Policy’, UGC National Seminar on Changing Dynamics of India’s Neighbourhood Policy, Department of Political Science, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (14-15 March, 2014)

‘Understanding Caste Hierarchy and Dalit Resistance Movements in India through a Gramscian Approach’, National Seminar on Democracy in India: Emerging Trends, UGC-SAP, Department of Political Science and Nehru Studies Centre, University of Allahabad, Allahabad (7-8 March, 2014)

‘India’s Perspective on National Security in South Asia’, Second National Symposium on India’s Foreign Policy in South Asia, Symbiosis Law School, Noida & Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India (23 March, 2013)

‘Cultural Homogeneity and the Intellectual Traditions of South Asia’, National Seminar on Challenges to South Asian Region, Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University, New Delhi (19-20 March, 2013)

‘Can Deterrence Theory explain Conflicts in South Asia?’, National Seminar on India’s Foreign Policy in South Asia in the 21st Century, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi & Deptt of Political Science, P. K. Roy Memorial College, Dhanbad, Jharkhand (4-5 March, 2013) (chaired a Session)

‘Bollywood’s Flawed Monism: Demystifying Hindi Cinema’s Representation of Muslim Terrorism’, National Seminar on Terrorism in South Asia: Issues and Challenges, Deptt of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh (9-10 November, 2012)

‘Dehumanising of Dalits: A Gramscian Approach’, International Seminar on Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Contribution in Anthropology & Indigenous Education, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha, Maharashtra (29-30 March, 2012) (Panelist)

National Panel Discussion on Kashmir: Burdens of the Past, Prospects for the Future, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (23 March, 2012) (Expert Panelist)

‘Predicaments of Domesticating the Western Notion of Human Rights’, UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Human Rights in India: Theory & Practices, Commerce, B.H.S.Arts & T.G.P. Science College, Jamkhandi, Jamkhandi, Karnataka (19-20 March, 2012)

‘Secular India and the Identity of Muslims’ International Conference on Restructuring Political Science in the Age of Globalisation, Department of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, Dharwad, Karnataka (25-27 March, 2011) (Presentation/ Discussant)

‘Writing Post-Colonial Histories and the Problems involved in the Interpretation of Archival Documents’, National Workshop on Local History Archives, Dept. of History, University of Calicut, Calicut, Calicut, Kerala (21 February, 2011)

‘Globalisation, Modernity and the Cultural Rights of Indian Muslims’, National Seminar on Globalisation and Human Rights in India, Rajrshi Tandon Women’s College, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, U.P. (27-28 November, 2010)

‘Human Rights of Muslim Women: Western Hegemony, the Clash of Cultures and the Enduring Myths’, National Seminar on Effective Governance: A Way to Realize Human Rights, Department of Political Science, Lingaraj College, Belgaum, Karnataka (30-31 March, 2010)

‘Globalisation and the Human Discontent: United States’ War on Terror and the Crises in Multicultural Societies’, Eighth International Congress of Social Philosophy on the theme Globalisation, Multiculturalism and International Order, Department of Comparative Dravidian Literature and Philosophy, Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh (12-14 November, 2009)

SPECIAL LECTURES DELIVERED

1) ‘Western Hegemony and the Theorising of Human Rights: In Search of Alternative Trajectories’ in the Refresher Course in Human Rights, UGC- HRDC, Jamia Millia Islamia University. (2 May 2016)

2) ‘Culture and Identity Politics’, delivered in the Interdisciplinary Winter School on ‘Folklore, Tradition and Culture’ conducted by The Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), UGC-HRDC, University of Delhi. (20 February 2016)

3) ‘Cinema and Popular Culture in India’, delivered in the Interdisciplinary Winter School on ‘Folklore, Tradition and Culture’ conducted by The Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), UGC-HRDC, University of Delhi. (20 February 2016)

4) ‘The Contours of India’s Foreign Policy ‘ in the 14th 3-week Refresher Course in Political Science, UGC-HRDC, Jamia Millia Islamia University. (6 November 2015)

5) ‘India Pakistan Relation’, in the 13th 3-Week Refresher Course in Political Science, UGC-HRDC, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. (3 December 2014)

6) ‘India-Pakistan Relations and Sub-continental Security’, at Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia University. (11 November 2014)

7) ‘Nation, History and the Problem of Locating the Indian Muslims’ in the 20th Refresher Course in History, UGC-HRDC, Jamia Millia Islamia University. (19 February 2014)

8) Lectures delivered as a Resource Person at the G.B. Pant Institute, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, for Civil Service Training for the backward classes and the minorities (during 2005-2011).

9) Lectures delivered as a Resource Person at the Faculty of Law, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh for the five year integrated LLB Programme (January - May 2011)

10) ‘Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal: Myths and Paradoxes’ in the XI Refresher Course in Political Science at UGC ASC, Allahabad University, Allahabad. (24 December 2009)

11) ‘Explaining South Asian Security through Deterrence Theories’ in the XI Refresher Course in Political Science at UGC ASC, Allahabad University, Allahabad. (12 December 2009)

12) Delivered three specialized lectures at the prestigious Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Niwas, Simla while working on ‘Ethno-Political Conflicts in South Asia’ as a UGC Inter University Centre Research Associate:

  1. ‘Perils of Political Exploitation of Ethnic Dichotomies in South Asia’ (June 2009)
  2. ‘Modernity and the Problems of Democratisation in South Asia’ (June 2010)
  3. ‘State Construction, Nation Building and Violence: Interrogating the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict in South Asia’ (June 2013)

EVENTS ORGANIZED

  1. ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on ‘Reimagining South Asia: An exploration into the History of Ideas’, at University of Delhi, Delhi. (17-18 February 2017)
  2. Panel Discussion on Sasanka Perera’s book ‘Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise’, in collaboration with Sage India and India International Centre, in India International Center. (13 January 2017)

JOURNAL EDITORSHIP

Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics

Associate Editor for International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. (Vol.5)

Associate Editor for International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies (V ol.7)

Associate Editor for International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (Vol.7)

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations

ORIENTATION / REFRESHER COURSES ATTENDED

  1. Orientation Course, UGC Academic Staff College, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 29th March to 26th April 2005.
  2. Refresher Course, UGC Academic Staff College, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 10th -31th March, 2004

AWARDS/MEDALS/DISTINCTIONS

  1. Offered Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U.K., for three months during 2014-15 to work on the project ‘The Ontology of Fear: Hindu Nationalism and the Allegory of Muslim Enemy in Bollywood Cinema’.
  2. UGC NET/JRF (2001).
  3. Selected for University Research Studentship for M. Phil. (2000).
  4. 1st Rank in M. Phil.
  5. Topped the Dept. in M. A. with three gold medals.
  6. Won several prizes in Essay writing / Debates/ Elocution competitions.

MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC BODIES:

  1. Indian Political Science Association (Life membership)
  2. Karnataka State Political Science Teachers Association(Life membership)
  3. Karnataka Vidyavarthak Sangha (Life membership)
  4. World Peace Movement Trust (Life membership)

CONTRIBUTION TO CORPORATE LIFE:

  1. Convener, Seminar Committee, Department of Political Science, DU
  2. Coordinator, Departmental Dissertation Committee, South Asian University, 2012-13
  3. Coordinator, University Flagship Course ‘Introduction to South Asia’, South Asian University during 2012-13
  4. Coordinator, Departmental Guest Seminar Committee, SAU, during July-Dec 2013
  5. Member Faculty BoS in International Relations, South Asian University
  6. Served as Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for the Differently Abled
  7. Students, Allahabad University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
  8. Convener, Unit for the Centre for the Differently Abled Students, Allahabad University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
  9. Member BoS in Political Science, Allahabad University

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DATE OF BIRTH: 29th November 1976

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