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Academic Achievements

Papiya’s academic achievements have been path breaking in many respects. Her focus on Bihar in pre-Independence India, etching the role of lesser known socio-political strands and drawing global links to them right up to contemporary times, has drawn well deserved acclaim, opening up new vistas of enquiry and public debates.

Books

Books
Partition and the South Asian Diaspora – Extending the Subcontinent, Routledge, New Delhi, 2007. (Review in Economic and Political Weekly,

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Unfinished Work

Unfinished Work
Unpublished Article Left Communitarian Feminism : The Tehreek – e- Niswan Unfinished Books Community and Nation : Bihar in the

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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Mushirul Hasan, Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885-1930, Manohar, New Delhi, 1991 in Indian Economic and Social History Review,

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Articles / Research Papers

Articles / Research Papers
The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bihar, M.Phil, Dissertation, University of Delhi, 1979.The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bihar, 1930-34 – Ph.d

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Conferences / Seminars / Workshops

Conferences / Seminars / Workshops
The Swaraj of 1932 in Palamau, Bihar, 48th Session of the Indian History Congress, 5-7 November, 1987, Goa.Champaran in 1917

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Research Supervision

Research Supervision
Supervised the Ph. D Thesis, “Situtating the Triveni Sangh Shahabad, 1930s – 1940s” by Ms. Shikha Sinha, of Patna University

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Research Supervision

Supervised the Ph. D Thesis, “Situtating the Triveni Sangh Shahabad, 1930s – 1940s” by Ms. Shikha Sinha, of Patna University in 2000.

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Conferences / Seminars / Workshops

Conferences / Seminars / Workshops

  • The Swaraj of 1932 in Palamau, Bihar, 48th Session of the Indian History Congress, 5-7 November, 1987, Goa.
  • Champaran in 1917 : Peasants, Planters and Gandhi, Seminar on 150 Years of Peasant Protest Movements in Bihar (1831-1981), Muzaffarpur, 1988.
  • Swami Biswanand : Outsider, Congressman and Gorakshak, Indian History Congress, Dharwad, December, 1988.
  • Bihari Muslims in Dhaka : A Background Study of the 1946 Riot, International Symposium on ‘Dhaka : Past, Present and Future’, Bangladesh Asiatic Society, Dhaka, 16 November 1989.
  • Modern Indian History Unit Lessons on 1857 and The Maratha State System, New Delhi, IGNOU, 1989 and 1990 respectively.
  • Articulating Community Rights : The Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha in Congress Bihar, 1937-39, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 16 November, 1991.
  • Contacting the Bihari Muslims : Congress in 1937-39, Indian History Congress, New Delhi, February, 1992.
  • Contesting the Sharif : The Momin Conference—Muslim League Interface in Bihar, 1938-47, Seminar on, Caste and Class in India, Joshi-Adhikari Institute of Social Studies, New Delhi, 4 April, 1992.
  • Shuddhi, Sangathan and Swaraj : The Discourse and Politics of Community and Nation, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 4 April, 1992.
  • Enumerating the Aqalliat : The Bihar Muslim League in the 1930s and 1940s, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 23 June, 1992.
  • The Discourse and Politics of Qaum, Mazhab and Biradaris in 1940’s Bihar, Workshop on, North India and Indian Independence, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, December 9, 1993.
  • Enumerating for Social Justice : Religious Minorities and the Indian Constitution, IIAS Seminar on Social Justice and the Indian Constitution, Mysore, 10-14, February, 1994.
  • Hindustani : A Language for the Indian Nation, Sahitya Akademi National Seminar on The Great Indian Debate of the 20th Century, New Delhi, 18-20 February, 1994.
  • Diaspora By Partition : A Map of the Biharis, Institute on Culture and Consciousness in South Asia, University of Chicago, 19 May, 1994.
  • The Unhomings of the Biharis, Oxford Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford, 16 June 1994.
  • Reinvoking the Pakistan of the 1940s : Bihar’s Stranded Pakistanis, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 29 November, 1994.
  • The State of Pakistan Studies, American Institute of Pakistan Studies Workshop,
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 19-22 September, 1996.
  • Situating South Asians in North America, Carolina Seminar on Comparative Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USA, April 3, 1997.
  • Contesting Hindutva : Indian American Muslims, Triangle South Asia Consortium, North Carolina State University, 28 April 1997.
  • Panel on Linguistic Rights, Transnationalism and Language Preservation – The Relocation of Languages and Cultures: A Transnational and Transdisciplinary Workshop, Duke University, 6-10 May 1997.
  • Muhajir Migrants : Diasporic Mediations, Triangle South Asia Rockefeller Foundation Workshop III on, Migrations, Real and Imagined: Constructing South Asian Muslim Identities, North Carolina State University, 23 May, 1997.
  • Backward and Dalit Muslims in Bihar, 1930s-1990s, International Conference on, Bihar in the World and the World in Bihar, co-organized by the Asian Development Research Institute and the European Science Foundation in Patna, 18 December 1997.
  • Beyond Boundaries : Redefining South Asia, 13th Pakistan Workshop co-organized by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Keele University, Lake District, 4 July 1998.
  • Partition’s South Asian Diaspora Mediations, at the 14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsburg, USA, 30 July, 1998.
  • Gender Politics and Bihari Muslims, Workshop on, Regional Histories of Women: The Eastern Region, co-organized by the Indian Association of Women’s Studies, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University and Women’s Studies Research Centre, Calcutta University, 25-26 February, 1999.
  • Women in Hindi Cinema, Fourth All Bihar VHS Video Festival: The Media and the Message, Patna, 9 April, 2000.
  • Partition and the South Asian Diaspora, International Conference on Forced Migration in South Asian Region: Displacement, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Centre For Refugee Studies, Jadavpur University in collaboration with the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Law Research Institute, Calcutta and International Law Association, Calcutta Centre, 21 April, 2000.
  • Bihar Muhajirs : An Aqalliat Perspective of Pakistan, Workshop on, Violence in South Asia : Perspectives, Politics, Discourse, University of Pennsylvania, co-sponsors: Centre for Advanced Study of India and Department of Religious Studies, Philadelphia, 30 March, 2002.
  • Panel on, Mapping Scientific Research : A Social Study of Science in Modern India, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Washington, 5 April, 2002.
  • Dalit Muslim Politics : A Post-Mandal Note, National Consultation on, Marginalization of Dalit Muslims in Indian Democracy, Deshkal Society and Heinrich Boll Foundation, India International Centre, New Delhi, 11-12 October, 2003.
  • Contemporary Patriarchies : Reconfigurations in Bihar, conference on ‘Gender, Society and ‘Development’ in India, 1860-2000’, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 16-18 October 2003.
  • Bihar Ki Pehchan Aur Vikas, Janadalat, co-organized by ADRI and Patna Pustak Mela, Patna, 5 December, 2003.
  • Chaired Session on, Exclusion & Empowerment : Dalit Experience of Democracy, at National Seminar on, Dalit Studies and Higher Education : Exploring Content Material for a New Discipline, India International Centre, New Delhi, February 28-March 1, 2004.
  • Documenting Democracy – Democracy and Pluralism, in, Shared Experiences—India and the U.S.A co-organized by Khuda Baksh Library and American Centre of Kolkata, Patna, 4 March 2004.
  • Gendering Economies, Refresher Course, Department of Economics, Patna University, 1 April 2004.
  • Dalit Studies Curriculum Development Workshop, Deshkal Society, J.N.U., New Delhi, 9-10 April, 2004.
  • Documentaries, Godhra Tak and Naata, Abhivayakti: The 6th All Bihar Low-Cost Video Festival, Ravibharti, Patna, 16 April, 2004.
  • Partition Studies & Pedagogy, International Seminar, The Partition Revisited : Thinking Through and Beyond Violence, Trauma and Memory, organized by Centre for Refugee Studies, Jadavpur University; International Institute of Mediation and Historical Conciliation, Boston; International Centre for Peace Studies, New Delhi, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, August 24-26, 2005, New Delhi.
  • Subcontinental Majoritarianisms, presented at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 26 October 2005
  • Writing Ganga-Jamni : In the 1940 and After, presented at the Second International Conference on Religious and Cultures in the Indic Civilization, 18 December 2005, New Delhi, organized by The Indic Studies Network, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies & Manushi : A Journal About Women and Society.
  • Lecture delivered on ‘Popular Political Culture, with special focus on Music’, at Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi, March, 2006.
  • Attended Seminar at the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, on ‘Composite Culture’ in October, 2006.
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Articles / Research Papers

  1. The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bihar, M.Phil, Dissertation, University of Delhi, 1979.
  2. The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bihar, 1930-34 – Ph.d Thesis, University of Delhi, 1984.
  3. The Rural Base of the Bihar Congress, 1920-36, in, Social Science Probings, Vol. No. 1, March, 1986.
  4. ACS – A ticket to Academic Excellence, Times of India, Patna, 31 March, 1988.
  5. Community Questions and Bihar Politics, 1917-23 in, Indian Historical Review, Vol. 26, Nos. 1-2, July, 1989 & January, 1990.
  6. The 1946 Riots and the Exodus of Bihari Muslims to Dhaka, in, Dhaka, Past, Present, Future, Edited by Sharifuddin Ahmed, The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Publication No. 60, 1991.
  7. The Making of the Congress Muslim Stereotype: Bihar, 1937-39 in, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, 1991.
  8. Articulating Community Rights : The Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha in Congress Bihar, 1937-39, in, Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. XIV No. 2, December, 1991.
  9. Peasants, Planters and Gandhi: Champaran in 1917, in Kaushal Kishore Sharma, Prabhakar Prasad Singh and Ranjan Kumar, Eds., Peasant Struggles in Bihar, 1831-1922: Spontaneity to Organisation, Patna, Janaki Prakashan, 1994.
  10. The Virile and the Chaste in Community and Nation Making : Bihar 1920’s to 1940’s in, Social Scientist, Vol. 22, Nos. 1-2, January-February, 1994.
  11. Reinvoking the Pakistan of the 1940s : Bihar’s Stranded Pakistanis, in, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol II, No. 1, 1995.
  12. Recasting Nationalism: Nehruvian, Secularism and Syed Mahmud, in Journal of Historical Studies, No. 2, December 1996.
  13. Muttahidah Qaumiyat in Aqalliat Bihar : The Imarat-I-Shariah, 1921-1947, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 34, 1997.
  14. Contesting Hindutava – Indian Muslim Americans, April, 1997.
  15. Colonial Muslim Politics in Bihar, in, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1997.
  16. Partition’s Biharis in, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1997; also in Mushirul Hasan (ed.), Islam, Communities and the Nation : Muslim Identities in South Asia and Beyond, Manohar, New Delhi, 1998.
  17. Pakistanis and Indians Outside South Asia in, Refugee Watch, Issue No. 12, December, 2000.
  18. The Changing Discourse of the Muhajirs, in India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2, New Delhi, 2001.
  19. Reclaiming South Asia, Conference Volume, Cosmopolitanism and the Nation State, 22 February, 2001, Prince Claus Fund & ADRI, Patna.
  20. Partition and South Asian Diaspora, in Om Prakash Mishra (Ed.), Forced Migration in the South Asian Region : Displacement, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Manak, New Delhi, 2004.
  21. Contemporary Patriarchies : Reconfigurations in Bihar in, Shakti Kak & Biswamoy Pati (Ed.), Exploring Gender Equations : Colonial and Post Colonial India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 2005.
  22. Writing Ganga-Jamni : in the 1940s and After, Social Scientist, Vol. 34 / Nos. 11-12, Nov-Dec, 2006.
  23. Shared Spaces; Khuda Baksh Library Journal, Patna, No. 146, October – December, 2006.
  24. “Pasmanda Politics in Bihar”, in Journal of Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna, No. 149, July – September 2007
  25. “Subcontinental Majoritarianisms”, in Contemporary Perspectives, History and Sociology of South Asia, Vol. 2, No. 1 January – June 2008 (Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia).
  26. Politics of Language & Culture in Bihar – Introductory Views.
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Book Reviews

  • Mushirul Hasan, Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885-1930, Manohar, New Delhi, 1991 in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, March 1992.
  • J.B.P. Moore, The Political Evolution of Muslims in Tamil Nadu and Madras: 1930-1947, in Indian Review of Books, 16 December 1997-15 January, 1998.
  • Abdus Samad, A Strip of Land Two Yards Long, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1997 in Biblio : A Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 12, November-December 1998.
  • “In the South Asian Diaspora”, Journal of Historical Studies, Nos. 5 & 6, June, 1999 – June 2000″.
  • Shadow Lives : Writings on Widowhood edited by Uma Chakravarti & Preeti Gill & The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature by Rajul Sogani in Biblio, Vol. VII, Nos. 9 & 10, November-December, 2002.
  • Debjani Sengupta (ed.), Mapmaking : Partition Stories from Two Bengals, Srishti Publishers, New Delhi, 2003 in Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol. VII, Nos. 11 & 12, November-December 2003
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Unfinished Work

Unpublished Article
  • Left Communitarian Feminism : The Tehreek – e- Niswan
Unfinished Books
  • Community and Nation : Bihar in the 1940’s : This book was published by Routletdge in the form it was in 2010 with a Foreword by Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin.
  • Backward and Dalit Muslims in Bihar
  • Studies on Bihar’s folk culture and music
  • Contemporary Trends in Indian Cinema, with a focus on regional Cinema.
  • Many more, which are spread over volumes of Notes and Manuscripts, which unfortunately could not receive Papiya’s attention, her deep commitment notwithstanding.
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Books

  1. Partition and the South Asian Diaspora – Extending the Subcontinent, Routledge, New Delhi, 2007.
    • (Review in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. No. 42 dated November 17, 2007 by Vanita Sharma.( http://www.epw.org.in/uploads/articles/11231.pdf )
  2. Community and Nation : Essays on Identity and Politics in Eastern India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008.
  3. The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bihar, Manak, New Delhi. 2008.
  4. History in the Vernacular, Edited by Raziuddin Aquil and Partha Chatterjee- In Memory of Papiya Ghosh- Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2008.
  5. Muhajirs and the Nation- Bihar in the 1940s, Routledge, New Delhi, 2010.
  6. Bihar Mein Savinay Avagya Andolan ( Hindi Translation of Sl 3 above by P L Prajapati), Manak, New Delhi , 2011.
  7. Resurrection of the State- A Saga of Bihar- Essays in Memory of Papiya Ghosh, Edited by Sunita Lall and Shaibal Gupta, Manak Publications, New Delhi, 2013.
NOTE:
  • ALL PAPIYA’S BOOKS WERE POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS, with support from friends and colleagues, coordinated by her sister, Dr. Tuktuk Ghosh
  • Books at Sl. 2 & 3 – Above were launched by the then Hon’ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee, with an Address on “Role of Democratic Institutions in Ensuring Security and Justice for Women”, on 8 March 2008, to coincide with International Women’s Day at India International Centre, New Delhi
  • Book at Sl.7 was launched by Nobel laureate, Professor Amartya Sen, at ADRI, Patna on 4th February, 2013