Priyanka Sharma

Publications:

  • ‘Frontiersmen in Imperial Delhi: Regulating Afghans and their moneylending, 1912- 1939’, IESHR, forthcoming in Vo. 61, No. 2, April-June, 2024.
  • ‘Rational Recreation: Regulating the historic gardens of Old Delhi 1912-1940s’ Research Review, Vol.8, 2023, pp. 159-167, e-ISSN: 2455-3085.
  • ‘Medical Advertisements in Colonial Bengal, 1920-1940: Some Reflections on Notions about Women’s Health and Domesticity’, International Education & Research Journal, Vol.9, 2023, pp. 72-75, e-ISSN No : 2454-9916
  • ‘Disability and the British Raj: Discourses and Institutional Practices in Early Twentieth Century Colonial India’ in Navigating Disability in an Ableist World: Intersections and Insights, Delhi, Primus (forthcoming 2024)
  • Three chapters on Indian history in Footprints: Our Past, Planet and Society, Social Science, Grade 8, ed. by U. Ray and L. Sachdev, New Delhi: Macmillan, 2024, ISBN 978-9356665125.

Invited Speaker:

  • Lecture on “From Empire to Commonwealth: British India in Early twentieth century”, Macquerie University, Australia, Student study tour at LSR, 22-24th Nov, 2023.
  • Panellist, Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav on the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, organized by Leadership Cell, St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, on 27th August 2021.

Papers presentations and Workshops:

  • “Women Consumers: Medical Advertisements in colonial Bengal, 1920-1940”, at Indian History Congress held at Madras Christian College, Chennai, 27-29th December, 2022.
  • Course Workshop on “Ethics and Values in Ancient Indian Traditions”, Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, 28th October, 2022.
  • ‘Frontier’ Pathans in the Imperial Capital: Deconstructing Colonial Representations and Responses to Pathan Moneylenders in New Delhi, 1911-1947, at the Graduate Conference on Approaches to Mobility: Thinking Through Time and Space, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi- NCR, 25th March 2022.
  • ‘Regulating Recreation in the gardens of Old Delhi (1911-1946): Exploring Race, Class and Gender in Public spaces’, at Graduate Research Meet 2018, organized by IIT Guwahati (Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences), on 26 and 27th October 2018.
  • Participated in the International Workshop “Approaching Biographies, Life-Histories, and Self-Narratives: Transdisciplinary from India and Europe” organized by the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU and the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich at JNU, from 30th January to 1st February, 2017.
  • Participated in Antarchakshu, workshop on disability, organized by St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai in collaboration with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and JNU at JNU, New Delhi (2012).