Dr. Aditya Pratap Deo


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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’

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