FACULTY PROFILE
Name: Dr. Amrita Tulika
Designation: Associate Professor
Address: Dept. of History, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi- 110007
Email: amrita.tulika@gmail.com; amrita.tulika@ststephens.edu
Academic Qualification: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
M.A. (Modern Indian History), Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 1984.
M.Phil. (Modern Indian History), CHS, JNU, 1986.
Dissertation Topic: ‘An Intellectual Biographical Sketch of a Peasant Leader, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, 1889- 1950’.
Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Majid Hayat Siddiqi Ph. D., University of Delhi, India, 2005.
Thesis Topic: ‘Bhils of Khandesh: A Historical Study, c. 1800- 1900’.
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Shahid Amin
Career Profile: July 2000- Present, Permanent Faculty, Dept. of History, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Administrative Assignment: Dean, Academics, St. Stephen’s College (June 2017- April 2022).
Area of specialization; Tribal/ Peasant History; Gender; History of Ideas in the colonial period; Folk Epics.
Publications: “Bhil Life- worlds in the Colonial Transition”, Seminar 740- April 2021.
Editor of a Multi – volume Project on Tribal Movements in Colonial India: December 2022- October 2023. This
is a Gujarat Tribal Research and Training Institute project, supported by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India. I am currently editing the volume on Western India
Research Supervision: May, 2022- Selected by the Dept. of History, University of Delhi for supervision of M.Phil. and Ph.D. Students. Two students have been assigned to me for M.Phil. and Ph.D. supervision. Written confirmation is awaited.
Conference/ Seminar Presentations/ Lecture Series:
St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, Invitation Lecture, Lecture Presented, ‘Draupadi in the Bhil Mahabharata: Exploring the Linkages between Popular Religious Cultures and Classical Epic Traditions’ part of the Online Lecture Series of the History Society, St. Stephen’s College, 14 September 2020.
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, National Seminar on “Anthropological Histories and Tribal Worlds in India”, 27- 29 March 2017. Presented a paper titled, ‘Bhil Rebellions in a Frontier Region: Western Deccan c.1800- 1860’.
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, Tuesday Seminar, Paper Presented, ‘Rights, Privileges or Claims? Narratives of Bhil huqs in Early Colonial India’, 18 December 2012.
Other Academic Activities
Translated select pieces of Premchand’s non- fiction work into English as part of the University Grants Commission, India, sponsored Special Assistance Programme, Departmental research Support (UGC SAP DRS) at the Dept. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 2019- 2020.