DAAD visiting PhD Students
Visiting PhD students are listed in alphabetical order with their project titles and the CeMIS research group they were affiliated with.
New Passage to India 2019 – 2023
Premkumar MK (Hyderabad University)
“Mapping the Transitional Phase between History and Present. A Study on Wayanadan Pulayar”
Indian Religions
Mufsin Puthan Purayil (IIM Kolkata)
“Communitarian Ties as Strategic Economic Resource: A Study of Job Seeking and Mobility among Kerala Emigrants”
Modern Indian History
Vishal Singh Deo (Delhi University)
“Political Economy of Caste in Uttar Pradesh 1850−1980”
Modern Indian History & State and Democracy in Modern India
Praveen Verma (Delhi University)
“Law and Changing Forms of Identity Assertion in Northern India: 1900-2000s”
Indian Religions
New Passage to India 2015 – 2017
Saeed Ahmad (Delhi University)
“Daily Akhbar: Newspapers and Reading Publics, 1945-1952”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Rupali Bansode (IIT Delhi)
“Sexual Violence on Dalit Women in the Indian State of Maharashtra”
Indian Religions
Zaid al Baset (CSSSC, Kolkata)
“The Supernatural and the Muslim Everyday in Kolkata”
Society and Culture in Modern India
Himadri Chatterjee (JNU)
“Partitioned Urbanity: Refugee Politics and Planning in Kolkata”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Rohini Khandari (JNU)
“Stem Cell Research and Experimentation in India: Mapping Practice and Policy”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Koyel Lahiri (CSSSC, Kolkata)
“Politics of Organizing Urban Work: A Study of Two Sites in India's Transforming Economy”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Jadumani Mahanand (JNU, Delhi)
“Ambedkar’s Idea of Democracy: a Study of Inequality”
Indian Religions
Raoof Mir (JNU)
“Media and Religion in Contemporary Kashmir: A Case Study of Anantnag and Srinagar”
Culture and Society in India
Chittibabu Padavala (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
“The Holocaust and the Social Sciences”
Indian Religions
Dickens Leonard Michael Raj (University of Hyderabad)
“Anti-caste Communitas in Religion and Culture: Iyothee Thass and Dalit-Subaltern emergence in early 20th Century South India”
Indian Religions
C. Chandra Sekhar (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad)
“Interrogating Dalit Conversion in Colonial South India: Christian Missionaries and the Emergence of Egalitarian Discourse”
Indian Religions
Praskanva Sinharay (CSSSC)
“Caste in West Bengal: Popular Politics and the Making of Dalit Identity”
Indian Religions
Sk Abdul Matin (JNU)
“Community, Mobilisation and Development: The Making of a New Muslim Identity in Contemporary West Bengal (2006-2016)”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Aastha Tyagi (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
“Gender and Political Identities of Young Women in Urban India”
State and Democracy in Modern India
New Passage to India 2013 – 2014
Saad Ahmad (JNU)
“Islamic Televangelism in Ratnagiri”
Culture and Society in India
Rajan Pandey (JNU)
“Agrarian Change and Peasant Politics: A Case Study of Post Green Revolution Western Uttar Pradesh”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Sushmita Pati (JNU)
“Capital and Community: A Study of Select Urban Villages in South Delhi”
State and Democracy in Modern India
Mrunal Patnekar (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
“Hindu-Muslim Riots' in Bombay between 1920 and 1948”
Modern Indian History
Anwesha Sengupta (JNU)
“Breaking up Bengal: People, Things and Land in times of Partition”
Modern Indian History
New Passage to India 2010 – 2012
Ratnabir Guha (JNU)
“19th Century Health, Medicine, Gender and Sexuality in South Asia”
Modern Indian History
Pratyay Nath (JNU)
“Mughal Warfare, State Formation and Military Culture in North India between 1567 and 1861”
Modern Indian History
Robert Raman (Delhi University)
“The making and unmaking of the working class politics in Bombay’s Mill Districts, 1928-1980”
Modern Indian History
Vidyha Raveenranathan (Delhi University)
“The Forgotten Sectors in Colonial Economy: Caste, Labour and the City in Colonial South India with special emphasis on Madras 1800-1940”
Modern Indian History
Kaustubh Sengupta (JNU)
“Planned Spaces, Intimate Places. Ordering a City and Creating a Neighborhood in Colonial Calcutta”
Modern Indian History
Devika Sethi (JNU)
“Proscribing Ideas: Censorship in India, 1930-60”
Modern Indian History