Dr Gopa Sabharwal

Papers in Books

  • 2023.Sabharwal, Gopa (2023). The Mechanics of Partition, In: Roy, A., & Bhatia, N. (Eds.). (2023). Regional perspectives on India’s Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points . New York. Routledge.Pp-199-214.
  • 2022.Sabharwal, Gopa. Gandhi’s Prayer Meetings and Partition, In: Bulla, D., W. (2022). Gandhi, Advocacy Journalism, and the Media. New York : Peter Lang .Pp-175-193.
  • 2020. Gandhi and the Muslim League: The Dawn in 1947 in Chandrika Kaul ed. M. K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society, New Perspectives. Palgrave Studies in History of Media. ISBN-NO-978-3-030-59034-5
  • 2019. Gopa Sabharwal. In Search of An Asian Vision: The Asian Relations Conference of 1947 in, Andrea Acri et.al (Ed). Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites ISEAS-Yosuf Ishak InstituteNalanda Sriwijaya Centre p (ISEAS-NSC) Singapore. ISBN NO-978 981-4818 85-8
  • 2018.Gopa Sabharwal and Anjana Sharma. Anger is a Short Madness in Alok Sarin and Sanjeev Jain edited The Psychological impact of the Partition of India, Sage Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-9386618542
  • Gopa Sabharwal. Building Linkages Creating Connections – the Nalanda Way in book titled ASEAN-INDIA Relations – A New Paradigm, Delhi Dialogue VIII, co-edited: Rumel Dahiya & Udai Bhanu Singh, IDSA, Publisher: Pentagon P (2018),ISBN-10: 9386618540; ISBN-13: 978-9386618542
  • 2018. Negotiating Place and Heritage: Creating Nalanda University in Anjana Sharma edited, Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage, ISEAS-Yosuf Ishak Institute Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre (ISEAS-NSC), Singapore 2018. ISBN: 978-981-47-8642-3

Books

  • 2019. 1947 Ke Baad Ka Bharat (Hindi) Hardcover. New Delhi. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN : 9789353222253. and Soft cover edition ISBN: 9789353222260. 2019
  • 2017. India Since 1947: The Independent Years (Revised and Updated). New Delhi: Penguin Random House, India. ISBN -13: 9780143441823
  • 2007. India Since 1947: The Independent Years. New Delhi: Penguin India. ISBN-13:978-0-14310-274-8.
  • 2006. Ethnicity and Class: Social Differentiation in an Indian City. Publishers: Oxford University Press, India. ISBN-10: 0195678303
  • 2000. The Indian Millennium, A.D. 1000 to A.D.2000. Publishers: Penguin India. (Now in its 3rd edition). ISBN-10: 0140295216

Invited Lectures

  • Delivered a lecture titled as Gandhi in Our Times, to visiting delegates from Macquarie University, on 29th November, 2022 at  LSR College, DU.
  • Invited to deliver a lecture titled “Traversing Many Fields” at Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, on 2nd May, 2022.
  • 2021. Invited lecture on History of Rajgir at CEPT University Ahmedabad, Bachelor of Urban Design (BUD) L3 studio – Urban Development at Rajgir, 23rd September, 2021.
  • Delivered a lecture titled  “Producing  a Culture of Consumption – The Tea Story”  at the Centre for Public History, Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, CPH@10 Public Talk series, 11th June, 2021.
  • March 23. I spoke on Stream of Dialogue from Socrates to Ikeda at the International webinar on the books of Dr N. Radhakrishnan on the SGI President Dr Daisaku Ikeda, 23rd March, 2021.
  • Delivered a talk titled “The Tea Story: From Unfamiliar to Universal Beverage” at The Rotary Club of South Delhi, October 6, 2018.
  • 2018: Expert talk for in-country orientation of 2018-19 U.S Fulbright-Nehru Scholar Researchers titled: Caste, Religion & Cultural Diversity in India. August 22 2018. United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF).
  • June 2018 Invited Chair for the Che Guevara Memorial Lecture at the International Conference entitled Karl Marx – Life, Ideas, Influence: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary, June 16-20, 2018, by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) Patna. The Lecture was delivered by Professor Tian Yu Cao, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University.
  • April 6-8. Department of English, University of Delhi in association with IGNCA and the Embassy of Indonesia, Seminar on The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances and Histories. Plenary Talk titled: The Mahabharata Narrative: Locating the Story of Jarasandha of Magadha.
  • March 24-28. ADRI Silver Jubilee Celebrations 2016-17 International Conference on Bihar and Jharkhand : Shared History to Shared Vision. Patna. Invited Chair for Silver Jubilee Lecture by Vinita Damodaran Professor, University of Sussex, Brighton and for the session titled Colonialism and its Varied Impact in the Region.
  • March 18-20. International Conference on “Universities of the Future: Knowledge, Innovation and Responsibility” organized by the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd) of O.P. Jindal Global University. Speaker at the Session titled: “Higher Education Challenges : Regulation, Policy and Governance”.
  • December 9. Keynote address at the inauguration of the Induction Training Programme (All Disciplines) for freshly inducted faculty members in Universities/Colleges and Institutes at Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. December 10, Talk titled Establishing a Nalanda for the 21st Century- a Case Study, at the same Programme.
  • March 30. Seminar on Gandhian Satyagraha and Women’s Movements, organized by Apne AAP  at India International Centre, New Delhi. Speaker in the session on Panchayati Raj, Prohibition and Village Development.
  • 2017. January 23. Dialogue organized by Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti and The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library on The Netaji and The Mahatma: Trajectories of Nationalism and Blueprints of India. Speaker at the dialogue. Later telecast by Rajya Sabha TV.
  • November 7. Chair of the Session on Xuan Zang and Archaeology in India and China at a Seminar on Xuan Zang and China-India, jointly organized by the Consulate  General of the P.R. of China in Kolkata and Nalanda University, Bihar.
  • September 17. Keynote address, 152nd Anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala, organized by the Mahabodhi Society Bodh Gaya.
  • August 20. Welcome and Keynote address, International conference on Heritage in Context: Balancing the Global with the Local, School of Historical Studies, Nalanda University in collaboration with Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich & India International Centre, New Delhi.
  • June 25. Chair for the distinguished lecture by Ruchira Gupta at International Conference on Social Statistics in India organised by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) Patna to commemorate its Silver Jubilee.
  • May 26. Participated in the China-India University Presidents Roundtable at Peking University.
  • 2016. November 16-18. Attended the Visitor’s conference the Annual conference organized by the office of the President of India for the Vice Chancellor’s of all central institutions of which the President is the Visitor. New Delhi.
  • 2016. September 23. Governance and Culture of Learning in Higher Education jointly organized by the British Council and Ahmedabad University as part of the British Council project E-QUAL. Speaker at the session: What should our students learn? Skills versus Broad Education and their respective challenges  Ahmedabad.

Paper Presentation

  • 2021. September 22. So Near Yet So Far: Marathi Speakers in Belgaum, Karnataka at the International Conference on Maharashtra, University of Oxford.
  • 2020. Presented a paper titled, Gandhi and the Muslim League Press at the International Conference organised by the Department of English, University of Delhi, titled, Gandhi in the Private and Public Sphere: Image, Text and Performance  held on  March 4-5, 2020.
  • 2019. Presented a paper titled, Newspaper as Political Instrument –The Dawn, New Delhi, 1947 at the conference titled, Press and Divided Society, organised by the   Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland and the Queens University Belfast held on  November 8-9, 2019.
  • 2019. Presented a Paper titled, Gandhi and his Opponents: Coverage of Gandhi in the Dawn in 1947,  at the M.K. Gandhi and Media Conference, School of History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland held on October 5-6, 2019.
  • 2019. Presented a paper titled, The Newspaper as Political Actor—The Dawn, New Delhi, 1947,  at a Conference on Populism and Populist Politics in South Asia Organised by the Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Held on August 31-September, 2019.
  • 2019.Presented a paper at the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS-11), at Leiden, the Netherlands, titled, Producing a Tea Consumption Culture in Colonial India held on  July 15-19, 2019.
  • 2018. Presented a paper titled A Social History of Tea in India: From Unfamiliar To Universal  Beverage at the. British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS), conference University of Exeter, England. April 16-18, 2018.
  • 2018. January 3-4. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur  interdisciplinary international Seminar on ‘India@70: Memories and Histories’. Paper titled: The Devil Lies in The Detail.
  • 2016. October 10-11. Paper titled  In Search of an Asian Vision: The Asian Relations Conference of 1947 at the Conference titled Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites jointly organised by the Nalanda University and the Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre at the ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

Membership

  • Indian Sociological Association; India International Centre; British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS),Association for Asian Studies (AAS).

Research Guidance

Ph.D Supervision

  • Md. Aijaz Ur Rehman: Social Picture of Kashmiris Outside Kashmir: A Sociological Study of Mass Media.
  • Shivangi Shrivastava: To Explore the Lived Experiences of Women with Visual Impairment in an Intimate Relationship in Delhi.
  • Navneet Singh Nain: Interrogating Brahmanical Patriarchy in University Spaces: A Sociological Study.

M.Phil Supervision

  • Thomas Mathew: Locating the Liminality of the ‘National’ in the Everydayness of the ‘Taddesiyyam’

Others

  • Supervised 15 days of student fieldwork of third year students from Sociology Honours in Jaipur, Rajasthan January 16-31 2020
  • Supervised 15 days of student fieldwork of third year students from Sociology Honours in Patna Bihar January 15-30, 2019.
  • Part of the committees revising the curriculum of the undergraduate syllabus in Sociology at the University of Delhi.