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Personal Details
Name: Aditya Pratap Deo
Designation: Associate Professor
Department: History
Educational Qualifications:
- B. A. (Honours) in History from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
- M. A. and M. Phil. in History from Delhi University.
- Ph. D. in History from Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
E-mail: adityakanker@gmail.com
He works on the History of Modern South Asia, especially that of Tribal Peoples and Princely States, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological History and Philosophy of History.
Publications
(a) Academic
2022
Essay, ‘Status, Caste and Patriarchy in Princely India: The Case of Shobha Manjari and Govind Kumari of Kanker, 1934-37’, Summerhill: IIAS Review, Summer 2017
Editorial, Summerhill: IIAS Review, Summer 2017Conversation with Joyce Burkhalter Fleuckiger, Summerhill: IIAS Review, Summer 2017
Conversation with Chetan Singh, Summerhill: IIAS Review, Summer 2017
2022
Essay, ‘D.E.U. Baker (1932-2021): A Life Extraordinaire’, South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies, March 2022
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00856401.2022.2050550
2021
Book, Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State, London: Routledge, October 2021
https://www.routledge.com/Kings-Spirits-and-Memory-in-Central-India-Enchanting-the-State/Deo/p/book/9781032108377
2021
Essay, ‘Spirits of the State’, Seminar, April 2021
https://www.india-seminar.com/2021/740.htm
2021
Editorial, ‘The Problem’, Seminar, April 2021
https://www.india-seminar.com/2021/740.htm
2021
Further Reading, ‘Anthropological Histories’, Seminar, April 2021
https://www.india-seminar.com/2021/740.htm
2020
Review of Pallavi Aiyar’s Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, New Delhi: Fourth Estate, 2008, in Summerhill, IIAS Review, Winter 2015, Delhi: IIAS
http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/issue/view/28
2020
Editor, Summerhill, IIAS Review, Winter 2015, Delhi: IIAS
http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/issue/view/28
2019
‘Interview with Gyanendra Pandey’, Summerhill, IIAS Review, Winter 2016, Delhi: IIAS
http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/issue/view/27
2019
Editor, Summerhill, IIAS Review, Winter 2016, Delhi: IIAS
http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/issue/view/27
2017
Review of Nandini Sundar’s The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar, Delhi: Juggernaut, 2017, in Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, IIAS, Delhi, Vol. 22, No. 1, Summer 2015
2016
Review of Mahesh Rangarajan’s Nature and Nation: Essays on Environmental History, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2015, in Book Review Literary Trust, Vol. XL, No. 2, February
2015
Essay, ‘Needed, A History for Nainital: Reflection of a Few History-minded Persons’, Journal of HRDC, Kumaon University, Nainital
2013/14
Essay, ‘Of Kings and Gods: The Archive of Sovereignty in a Princely State’ in Gyanendra Pandey (ed.) Unarchived Histories, New York/New Delhi: Routledge
2009
Introduction, ‘Reflections on the History of Chhattisgarh’ in Hiltrud Rustau and Katja Eichner (eds.) Schatzkammer Indiens Chhattisgarh, Berlin: Trafo
(b) Other
2017
‘Video Interview with D. E. U. Baker’, Sahapedia, YouTube
2016
‘The Notion of Tribe’, Lecture for Citizenship Program, St Stephen’s College-CNN
2007
Written four articles titled ‘Rajkumar College’, ‘Princely States of Chhattisgarh’, ‘Palaces of Chhattisgarh’ and ‘Cult of the Anga Dev’ in Eicher Guide Books Chhattisgarh and Bastar, Delhi: Eicher, Good Earth Publication, November
2007
‘Christianity and Environment’, Delhi: Herei Ngam Huay, January-February
2006
‘The Youth at the Forefront of Progressive Change’, Delhi: In Touch India, December
2006
‘The Usefulness of the Extra Curricular’, Delhi: In Touch India, September
1999, 2005
Texts for Kanker Palace Heritage Brochures, Delhi, on the history and culture of Kanker
Conferences and Talks
April 2022
Delivered (online) book talk on Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State’, SOA Colloquium Series, Spring 2022, Ashoka University, Sonepat
March 2022
Delivered (online) book talk on Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State’, Krea University, Chennai
February 2022
April 2022
Delivered (online) book talk on Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State’, Center for India and South Asia, University of California, Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb6u6aC4UYk
February 2022
Delivered (online) book talk on Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State’, Understanding Culture, History and Society
December 2021
Delivered (online) lecture on the ‘The Life and Public Service of Maharajadhiraj Bhanu Pratap Deo of Kanker’ as part of ‘Personality Development and Career Guidance Value-added Course’, B. P. Deo Govt. P.G. College, Kanker
November 2021
Delivered (online) talk at the Resilience Lecture Series, Historic Houses in India and their Custodians: Aditya Pratap Deo and Kanker Palace Heritage, Center for Historic Houses, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUlGp-NoOOo
November 2021
Delivered (online) book talk and participated in a discussion (online) on Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State’, History Society, St Stephen’s College, Delhi
November 2021
Presented (online) paper title ‘Violating the Historical Protocol: Tribal Peoples, State and Memory in Central India’ in the Second South Asia Research Center Online Conference on ‘Memory and Past in South Asia’, Soka University, Tokyo
November 2020
Presented (online) paper titled ‘One Asia, One World: Meditations on Plural Universalism’ at the South Asia Research Center, Soka University, Tokyo, and Japan Spotlight, Joint Symposium on ‘Asia is One: Asian Cultures and Mind’
October 2020
Presented (online) paper titled ‘ Education and the Pandemic: A New Beginning or a Lost Opportunity?’ at the Plenary Session on Education at the South Asia Research Center, Soka University, Tokyo, International Conference on ‘Japan-South Asia Connection in Economy, Health and Education’
September 2020
Delivered talk (online) on ‘Why Should We Study History?’ at Loyola English Medium High School, Naogaon, Assam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNf0dLemmA
August 2020
Presented (online) paper titled ‘Writing Tribal Pasts: A Crisis of History?’ at International webinar on Latest Trends in Indian English Literature and Social Sciences, Basaveshwar Group of Educational Institutions, Basavakalyan and Kalburagi, Karnataka
July 2020
Delivered talk (online) at Workshop at Dayapuram Educational Society, Calicut, on ‘Creating Clarity and Hope in Higher Education’
April 2017
Co-convener, National Conference titled ‘The Land Question in Contemporary India’, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
March 2017
Organized a National Conference titled ‘Anthropological Histories and Tribal Worlds’ at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
Presented a paper titled ‘The Enchanted Realm: The Spirits of the State in Colonial-Princely Kanker, Central India’ at the same event.
2014
Lectured on ‘Time in History’ at the Doon School, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, annual History event.
October 2012
Presented paper at the Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI, USA, titled ‘Of Spirits/States: Gond Pasts in Southern Chhattisgarh’
September 2012
Presented paper titled ‘Of Kings and Gods: An Archive of Sovereignty in Princely Kanker, Central India’ in a Workshop on ‘Un-Archived Histories’, Emory University
October 2011
Presented a paper at the Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI, USA, titled ‘The Invisible Realm: Spirits, Kings and Archives in the Colonial Feudatory State of Kanker, Southern Chhattisgarh’