डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• Ph.D. in History, Panjab University, Chandigarh
• Masters in History, Panjab University, Chandigarh

• March 2019- Present: Associate Professor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi
• March 2011- March 2019: Assistant Professor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi
• July 2006- March 2011: Assistant Professor, DAV College, Amritsar (Punjab)
• August 2005- February 2006: Lecturer, DAV College, Abohar (Punjab)

Dr. Yogesh Snehi’s research focuses on the social and cultural history of Punjab and South Asia, with particular emphasis on popular sacred shrines, especially Sufi sites. Engaging with religious identities, territoriality, memory, and the longue durée of region formation, his work critically interrogates communalized historical narratives and offers nuanced insights into sacred geographies and localized processes of social formation.

Snehi’s PhD thesis explored state development, education, and gender dynamics in aftermath of formation of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana in 1966. His fellowship work at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2013–2015), developed into a monograph Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality (Routledge, 2019). His edited and co-edited volumes include Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana, and his research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Indian Economic & Social History Review and Economic and Political Weekly. He is actively engaged in interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship, most recently published in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Sikhism and on-going joint project Keywords for Punjab.

Beyond the academy, Dr. Snehi contributes regularly to The Tribune and other platforms, writing on heritage, memory, and cultural history. His commitment to public scholarship is reflected in his podcasts, public lectures, and consultancy work for initiatives like the Abohar City Museum. Fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Bagri, he integrates historical inquiry with public history.

• Awarded a Fellowship for working on a project ‘Popular Sufi Shrines in Contemporary Punjab: Marginality, Identities and Dissent’ at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla from December 2013- December 2015.
• Awarded a Tasveer Ghar Fellowship for working on a short-term project (September 2010- February 2011) on ‘Replicating Memory, Creating Images: Pirs and Dargahs in Popular Art and Media of Contemporary East Punjab.’ The Fellowship has been awarded by the Cluster of Excellence – Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows (at Heidelberg University, Germany), on the theme "Circulation of Popular Images and Media in Muslim Religious Spheres".
• Awarded an Associateship at the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. Availed the first spell of Associateship from 01-06-2010 to 30-06-2010.
• Foreign Travel Grant from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi to participate in 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies at Warsaw (July 2016)
• Foreign Travel Grant from Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) for participation in a Conference at Paris (January 2012).
• Foreign Travel Grant from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi for participation in a Conference at Paris (July 2012).
• Grant for organising a Seminar on ‘Contemporary Amritsar: Society, Economy, Polity’ by Indian Council of Social Science Research (NWRC), Chandigarh (December 2009).

Monographs/Edited Volumes<

• Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality. South Asian ed. New Delhi: Routledge and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2019. ISBN 9780367374990.
• Global ed. London and New York: Routledge and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2019. ISBN 9781138057883. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203794.
• Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana. Co-edited with Lallan S. Baghel. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study; New Delhi: Primus Books, 2018. ISBN 9789386552983. https://primusbooks.com/modernity-changing-social-fabric-punjab-haryana/.
• Summerhill: IIAS Review 23, no. 2 (Winter 2017). Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. ISSN 0972-1452. http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/issue/view/22.
• Situating Popular Veneration. NMML Occasional Paper: History and Society, New Series 68. New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2015. ISBN 9789383650675. http://pmml.nic.in/downloadSeries/322.

Academic Papers

• “Sikhism and Islam.” In Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism, Vol. 2, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Anshu Malhotra, Kristina Myrvold, and Eleanor Nesbitt, 274–81. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025. https://brill.com/view/title/34953.
• “Language, Identity and Geography: State Reorganisation and the Emergence of Himachal Pradesh.” The Indian Economic & Social History Review 61, no. 3 (2024): 383–414. https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646241263942.
• “Territorialising Shrines in the Sacred Landscapes of Punjab.” In Punjabi Centuries: Histories of Punjab, edited by Anshu Malhotra, 255–303. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2024. https://www.orientblackswan.com/details?id=9789354428043.
• “Spatializing Khwaja Khizr (Jhule Lal) in Punjab.” In Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World: Khidr/Khizr from the Middle East to South Asia, edited by Michel Boivin and Manoël Pénicaud, 261–75. London: Routledge, 2024. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003386285-18/spatialising-khwaja-khizr-jhule-lal-punjab-yogesh-snehi.
• “From Ram Tirath to Valmiki Tirath: The Making of Valmiki Religious Identity in Amritsar.” Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies 8, no. 1 (2023): 15–40. https://doi.org/10.58125/nidan.2023.1.22221.
• “Sites of Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Post-Partition Punjab.” In Regional Perspectives on India's Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points, edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia, 101–20. London: Routledge, 2023. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003278498-8/sites-memory-yogesh-snehi.
• “Rise of Sikh Power.” In History of India VII (c.1605–1750), Paper XII (BHIC 112), 74–85. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2022. http://egyankosh.ac.in//handle/123456789/82874.
• “Memory, Space and Practice in the Street Shrines of Amritsar.” In Religion and the City in India, edited by Supriya Chaudhuri, 177–96. London: Routledge, 2022. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003029144-12/memory-space-yogesh-snehi.
• “Sufi Inheritance of Amritsar.” Nishan Nagara (Special Issue: The Separated Twin Cities of Lahore and Amritsar) 4 (2020): 29–34. https://nishaannagaara.com/sufi-inheritance-of-amritsar/.
• Contributions to Ways of Worship, edited by Radhika Chopra, 16, 49, 51, 60, 84, 114, 119, 129, 143, 145, 149, 152. New Delhi: Penguin, 2020. https://www.penguin.co.in/book/ways-of-worship/.
• “Border.” In Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century, edited by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza, 350–51. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/keywords-for-india-9781350039247/.
• “Historiography, Fieldwork and Popular Sufi Shrines in the Indian Punjab.” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 56, no. 2 (2019): 195–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019464619835667.
• “Spatiality, Memory and Street Shrines of Amritsar.” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 18 (2018): 1–22. http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4559.
• “Resisting Fluidity, Territorializing Practice.” International Journal on Humanistic Ideology 8, no. 1 (2018): 15–40. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=623535.
• “From Feudalism to State Developmentalism: Changing Economic Formation of Himachal Pradesh.” Economic and Political Weekly 51, nos. 26 & 27 (June 2016): 101–10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44004517.
• “Dreaming Baba, Restituting Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines and Historiography of Contemporary East Punjab.” Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia 2, no. 1 (June 2014): 3–24. https://www.academia.edu/8449966/.
• “The Entrapment of Selective Amnesia.” Economic and Political Weekly 49, no. 32 (2014): 21–23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24480780.
• “Vicissitudes of Gurdwara Politics.” Economic and Political Weekly 49, no. 34 (2014). Report from the States. https://www.epw.in/journal/2014/34/reports-states-web-exclusives/vicissitudes-gurdwara-politics.html.
• “Dissenting the Dominant: Caste Mobility, Ritual Practice and Popular Sufi Shrines in Contemporary Punjab.” In Devotion and Dissent in Indian History, edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy, 291–320. New Delhi: Foundation Books (Cambridge University Press), 2014. https://doi.org/10.1017/9789384463090.017.
• “Replicating Memory, Creating Images: Pirs and Dargahs in Popular Art and Media of Contemporary East Punjab.” In South Asia’s Islamic Shrines and Transcultural Visuality, edited by Yousuf Saeed and Christiane Brosius. Heidelberg: Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University. Published October 12, 2013. http://www.tasveerghar.net/vp/essay/18.html.
• “Female Foeticide.” In India Today: An Encyclopaedia of Life in the Republic, edited by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long, 242–43. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• “National Alliance of People’s Movement.” In India Today: An Encyclopaedia of Life in the Republic, edited by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long, 495–97. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• “National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.” In India Today: An Encyclopaedia of Life in the Republic, edited by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long, 497–98. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• “Right to Information.” In India Today: An Encyclopaedia of Life in the Republic, edited by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long, 602–4. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• “Special Economic Zones.” In India Today: An Encyclopaedia of Life in the Republic, edited by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long, 659–62. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&newbks=0&hl=en&source=newbks_fb&redir_esc=y.
• “Diversity as Counter-hegemony: Reet and Gender Relations in Himachal Pradesh.” In Recognizing Diversity: Society and Culture in the Himalaya, edited by Chetan Singh, 75–97. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/recognizing-himalayan-diversity-9780198069089?cc=us&lang=en#.
• “British Colonialism: Punjab.” In An Encyclopedia of Infanticide, edited by Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves, 37–38. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. https://mellenpress.com/book/Encyclopedia-of-Infanticide/8204/
• “Historicity, Orality and Lesser Shrines: Popular Culture and Change at the Dargah of Panj Pirs at Abohar.” In Sufism in Punjab: Mystics, Literature and Shrines, edited by Surinder Singh and Ishwar Dayal Gaur, 402–29. New Delhi: Aakar, 2009. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781032668741-22/historicity-orality-lesser-shrines-yogesh-snehi.
• “Conjugality, Sexuality and Shastras: Debate on the Abolition of Reet in Colonial Himachal Pradesh.” Indian Economic and Social History Review 43, no. 2 (2006): 163–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460604300202.
• “State and Child Justice: Stories of Delinquent Juveniles.” Economic and Political Weekly 39, no. 41 (2004): 4512–15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4415641.
• “Female Infanticide and Gender in Punjab: Imperial Claims and Contemporary Discourse.” Economic and Political Weekly 38, no. 41 (2003): 4302–5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4414126.

Book Reviews

• Review of The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition, by Anne Murphy. Studies in History 31, no. 2 (2015): 252–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/0257643015585676.
• Review of Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture and Practice, edited by Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir. Studies in History 29, no. 1 (2013): 155–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0257643013496694.
• Review of Sikhism and Women: History, Text and Experience, edited by Doris R. Jakobsh. Contributions to Indian Sociology 47, no. 2 (2013): 324–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966713483042.
• Review of Martyrdom as Bridegroom: Folk Representation of Bhagat Singh, by Ishwar Dayal Gaur. Research Journal Social Science 16, nos. 2 & 3 (2008): 220–24.
• Review of Honour: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence Against Women, edited by Lynn Welchman and Sara Hossain. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 14, no. 3 (2007): 543–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/097152150701400308.

Popular Articles

• “A Festive Day at Nagiana Sahib.” Co-authored with Anshu Malhotra. The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), March 2, 2025. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/variety/a-festive-day-at-nagiana-sahib/.
• “Guru Nanak’s Son, Baba Sri Chand, in Punjabi Imagination.” Co-authored with Anshu Malhotra. The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), October 27, 2024. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/guru-nanaks-son-baba-sri-chand-in-punjabi-imagination/.
• “Roza Sharif Mandhali: Doaba Shrine’s Worldview.” The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), July 7, 2024. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/features/roza-sharif-mandhali-doaba-shrines-worldview-637452/.
• “Mud Fort That Once Defined Abohar.” Co-authored with Kuldeep Kumar. The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), September 1, 2024. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/variety/mud-fort-that-once-defined-abohar/.
• “Ordinary People’s Heritage: How Small Towns Fail to Figure in Narratives of History.” The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), May 26, 2024. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/features/ordinary-peoples-heritage-how-small-towns-fail-to-figure-in-narratives-of-history-624873.
• “The Singer and the Mystic.” The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), August 21, 2022. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/features/the-singer-and-the-mystic-a-tribute-to-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-on-his-25th-death-anniversary-423858.
• “Panchbati.” Chakmak, no. 384 (September 2018): 20–21.
• “On the Margins of Religious Discourse.” Café Dissensus 34 (April 15, 2017). https://cafedissensus.com/2017/04/15/on-the-margins-of-religious-discourse/.
• “Celebrating Urs at Amritsar.” The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), June 25, 2017. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/arts/celebrating-urs-in-amritsar/426270.html.
• “Memorialising Anew the Event of 1984.” The Tribune (Sunday Special: Kaleidoscope), July 5, 2015. http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sunday-special/kaleidoscope/memorialising-anew-the-events-of-1984/102420.html.
• “Sufi Shrines and Their Contemporariness.” The Tribune, September 27, 2013. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130927/edit.htm#6.
• “Narratives of Harmony.” The Tribune (Sunday Spectrum), August 5, 2012. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120805/spectrum/main4.htm

Organised

• Member of the Organising Committee of the Shodhotsav 2022, National Young Researchers Conference on the theme ‘Researching [in] the Pandemic], organised by the Research and Consultancy Division, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi from 1-3 June 2022.
• Co-organised the Young Researchers Conference on ‘On New Researches in the History of the Indian Subcontinent’ at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, 28- 29 May 2021.
• International South Asian Conference on ‘Religion and Social Diversity in India’ co-convened with K.L. Tuteja (Tagore Fellow, IIAS Shimla) at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Niwas during the Golden Jubilee celebrations at Shimla from 12-14 October 2015.
• International Conference on ‘New Perspectives on Punjab Studies: Rethinking Historiography’ co-convened with Anne Murphy (University of British Columbia) and hosted by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi from 29-30 April 2015.
• Collaborated with the Centre for Community Knowledge for a lecture series Delhi ki Yaadein which culminated in a month-long exhibition on Delhi (Jaani-Anjaani Dilli) at Ambedkar University, Delhi in 2014.
• Organised a workshop with Dr. Manish Jain for Saint Thomas School (STS, Delhi) to engage students with the project of building STS Archive on 20 November 2013.
• Organised a workshop with Dr. Manish Jain on ‘Self, Memory and Education in Oral Family Narratives’ for the students of History of Education in Modern India (School of Educational Studies) at AUD, Delhi on 09 November 2013.
• Convened a two-day Workshop on Teaching History: Perspectives, Technology and Pedagogy under UGC Scheme ‘College with Potential for Excellence’ at the Department of History, DAV College Amritsar from 26-27 November 2010. The workshop was attended by School teachers from various parts of Punjab.
• Convened a three-day International Seminar on Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana in association with Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla and held at the Institute from 27-29 September 2010.
• Organised an International Conference on ‘Contemporary Amritsar: Society, Economy, Polity’ sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (NWRC, Chandigarh) at the Department of History, D.A.V. College, Amritsar (Punjab) from 30 November- 01 December 2009.
• Organised a two-day workshop on ‘How to Make History Interesting for Students?’ and ‘The Relevance of Audio-visual Aids in the Teaching of History’ as a resource person under In-Service Teachers Training of Western Command Level for TGT (S.St) at Army School, Bathinda Cantonment from 24-25 May 2004.

Participated

• Presented a paper on ‘Making sense of visual culture at Sufi saint shrines of east Punjab’ at a national seminar on ‘The Syncretic Traditions in the Subcontinent over the Ages: Contemporary Challenges’ organised by India International Centre and Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts at the IIC, Delhi from 25-26 November 2024.
• Presented a paper on ‘Demography, Religiosity and Electoral Politics: The Emergence of Valmiki Tirath in Amritsar’ at a national conference on ‘Pluralizing India: Locations of the Political, Locations of History’ organised by Rajan Kurai Krishnan (Ambedkar University), Ravindran Sriramachandran (Ashoka University) and Santosh Sadanandan (Ambedkar University) at Ashoka University from 2-4 November 2023.
• Presented a paper on ‘Debating the historical contours of Islamization in Punjab’ at a two-day national workshop on ‘Islam in Indian Environment’ under the Project ‘Creation of intellectual Heritage’ at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi on 20 February 2023.
• Presented a paper on ‘In the memory of Pirs and Babas: Embedded narratives of Sufi saint encounters from Punjab’ at an international conference ‘Kaho Kahāniyān Stories of Punjab, Stories from Punjab: Narratives of Punjabi Pasts and Presents’ organised by University of California, Santa Barbara from 6-8 May 2022.
• Presented a paper on ‘The Social Space of Sufi Shrines in Punjab’ at an international conference on ‘Texts, Shrines & Sufis: Reading Islam in South Asia’ organised by Shaikh-ul Aalam Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Kashmir on 22 February 2022.
• Presented a paper on ‘From Ram Tirath to Valmiki Tirath: The Making of Valmiki Religious Identity in Amritsar’ at an international conference on ‘Blurring Boundaries: Diffusing and Creating Urban Religion beyond Urban Space’ organised by The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies (Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe/KFG) “Religion and Urbanity: reciprocal formations”, University of Erfurt, Germany from 23-26 November 2021.
• Co-presented the idea of the ‘Farmers Movement Archives’ at a panel discussion on ‘DH and Community Archiving in South Asia’ at the meeting of the ‘Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)’ on 21 October 2021.
• Participated in a Panel Discussion on ‘Archiving Farmers’ Movement’ at the International Archives Week organised online by Milli Archives Consortium on 07 June 2021, https://youtu.be/yrFef1MuU88.
• Presented a paper on ‘Embedded sacred contours of Punjabi Sufi shrines’ at an international symposium on ‘The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes’ organised by University of Cambridge on 06 May 2020. The conference also showcased a set of my images titled ‘Sharing Sacred Punjab’ in an online exhibition ‘Shared Sacred Landscape’, https://www.sharedsacred.com/yogesh-snehi1.html.
• Presented a paper on ‘Historiography, Fieldwork and Popular Sufi Shrines in the Indian Punjab’, at a national conference on ‘Study of ‘Sacred Spaces’ and ‘Cults’ in Pre-Modern North-West India’ organised by the Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh from 18-19 March 2019.
• Presented a paper on ‘Sites of Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Post-Partition Punjab’ at a conference on India@70: Memories and Histories held at the department of humanities and social sciences, IIT Kharagpur from 3- 4 January 2018.
• Presented a paper on ‘Spatializing Khwaja Khizr (Jhule Lal) in Punjab’ in a Workshop 3 on ‘Khwaja Khidr from the Middle-East to South Asia: A Preliminary Survey of a Multi-religious Figure’ convened by Michel Boivin (CEIAS-CNRS) and Manoël Pénicaud (CNRS-IDEMEC-Aix-Marseille University) at Deuxième Congrès du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans held at Paris from 06-08 July 2017.
• ‘Khalsa Samāchār and Early Twentieth Century Religious Milieu’ at a conference on Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab from 17-20 August 2017 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).
• Presented a paper on ‘Spacializing Sufi Shrines in Contemporary Punjab’ at a national conference on ‘Sufi Traditions of India: Philosophy, Music and Poetry’, organised by Kannada University, Hampi (Karnataka) from 24-25 March 2017.
• Presented a paper on ‘Street Shrines and Sacred Publics in Amritsar’ in a panel on Street shrines: religion of the everyday in urban India convened by Borayin Larios (Heidelberg University) and Raphaël Voix (Centre for South Asian Studies, Paris, CNRSEHESS) at 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies in Warsaw (Poland) on 28 July 2016.
• Presented a paper on ‘Some thoughts on Spatiality, Dreams and Memories’ at a national seminar on Understanding Social Epistemology of Mythology, Science and Society organised by Department of Philosophy, UCSSH, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur from 2-3 February 2016.
• Presented a paper on ‘Dialectic of Sacred Spaces and Identity in Punjab’ at an international conference on ‘Religion and Social Diversity in South Asia’ organised by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from 12-14 October 2015.
• Presented a paper on ‘Historiography, Fieldwork and Debates on Sacred Shrines’ at Fellows’ Weekly Seminar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on 03 September 2015.
• Presented a paper on ‘Historiography and Fieldwork in the Study of Popular Shrines’ at an international conference on New Perspectives on Punjab Studies: Rethinking Historiography organised by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi from 29-30 April 2015.
• Presented a paper on ‘Situating Popular Veneration in Punjab’ at Fellows’ Weekly Seminar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on 16 October 2014.
• Participated in a Workshop on ‘Transnational Abandonment in NRI Marriages’ at ICSSR Regional Centre, Panjab University, Chandigarh on 14 January 2014 organised by Anupama Roy (Centre for Political Studies, JNU) and Anitha Sundari (University of Lincoln, U.K.).
• A presentation on ‘Locating Popular Veneration’ at a Round Table on Contemporary History for a conference on The Long Indian Century: Historical Transitions and Social Transformations organised in association with Prof. James Manor (University of London), Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan (Yale University, USA) and The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla) on 2-4 July 2014 at NMML, New Delhi.
• Presented a paper ‘Becoming Langurs: Shrines, Colonialism & Hypermasculinization in Contemporary Amritsar’ at a Seminar Punjab Today organised by Radhika Chopra (DU) and Ravinder Kaur (IIT, Delhi) at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics on 6-7 February 2014.
• Presented a paper ‘Comparatives within a Region: Exploring Historical Correlates between Sexuality, Plan Outlays and Education’ at the Annual International Conference of Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) held at Jammu University, Jammu from 10-12 October 2012.
• Presented a paper ‘Dreaming Baba, Restituting Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Contemporary East Punjab’ at a Workshop (W133) on Muslim Saints, Dreams, and Veneration of Shrines convened by Iain Edgar (Durham University) and Pedram Khosronejad (St. Andrews University) at the 12^th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference Uncertainty and Disquiet organised at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense from 10-13 July 2012.
• Presented a paper on ‘Contesting Pahari Conjugality in the Western Himalayas: Sexuality, Colonialism and the Question of Inheritance’ at an International Conference Women and Gender in the Colonial Contexts, organised by Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris from 19-21 January 2012.
• Presented a paper on ‘Language of Reform and Exclusion in Colonial and Post-Partition Punjab’ at an International Conference on Structures of Exclusion in South Asia organised by Indian Formation Research Society at University of Delhi from 23-25 November 2011.
• ‘Identity, Practices and Historiography: Exploring Popular Spaces in Modern and Contemporary Social Formation of Punjab’ at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla during first tenure as an Associate of the UGC Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences on 22 June 2010.
• ‘Becoming ‘Langurs’: Religiosity, Gender, Hypermasculinity’ at an International Seminar on Religion and Social Identity in Punjab organised by Department of Sociology, Panjab University in association with Manchester University (U.K.), at ICSSR, Chandigarh from 18-19 February 2010.
• ‘Understanding Popular Sufi Centres in Punjab’ at an International Conference on Pre-Colonial Punjabi Consciousness and its Continuities jointly organised by Punjab Research Group (UK) and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Punjabi University, Patiala on 19 December 2009.
• ‘On the Margins of Sufi Discourse: Popular Sufi Centres and their role in Indian Historiography’ at an International Seminar on Exploring the Margins organised by History Association, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 3-5 September 2009.
• ‘Colonialism and the Ideology of Female Education in Punjab’ at 41^st Punjab History Conference, Punjabi University, Patiala from 14-16 March 2009.
• ‘Diversity, Pluralism and Syncretism: Reflections on the Nature of ‘Panj Pir’ Tradition in Punjab’ at a State-level Seminar on Exploring Historical Perspectives on Pluralistic Society and Polity in Punjab organised by DAV College, Abohar on 25 October 2008.
• ‘Invasions, Martyrdom and the ‘Other’: Representation of Muslims in the Curricula and Popular Textbooks on Pre-Partition Punjab’ at a National Seminar on Trends in Modern Historiography of Punjab organised by Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh from 30 Nov.- 1 Dec. 2006.
• ‘From Infanticide to Foeticide: Gender and Sex Ratios in the Malwa Region of Punjab’ at a state-level Seminar on Malwa Region in Emerging Scenario- In Social, Economic, Political, Historical and Cultural Perspective held at DAV College, Abohar on 28 January 2006.

Lectures

• Delivered Prof. S.C. Misra Memorial Lecture at the 83^rd Session of the Indian History Congress, Punjabi University Patiala on 28 December 2024. The lecture was titled ‘Religious Encounters and Sufi Saint Shrines in the Longue Durée of Punjab’.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Locating Reet in the historical contours of Pahari cultural heritage’ at a national seminar on Pahari Cultural Heritage organised by the Department of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla on 13 November 2024.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Language, identity and geography: State reorganisation and the emergence of Himachal Pradesh’ at the School of Development Studies, AUD on 23 October 2024.
• A lecture on ‘Looking within and beyond the Archive’ at an ICHR sponsored workshop on ‘Research Methodology and Research Ethics in Social Sciences’ organised by the Department of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla on 27 March 2023.
• An online lecture on ‘Sufi Shrines in Post-Partition Doaba: Ruptures, Continuities, Transformations’ organised by the Centre for Diaspora Studies, Punjabi University Patiala on 21 March 2023; https://youtu.be/B7i5rgxkukk?si=cagS0TGyNZcn3af7
• A plenary lecture on ‘Gali, Mohalla, Basti, Shahr: Writing Qasba Histories in a Post-Partition City’ on 16 February 2023 at a Winter School on ‘Reading Cities through Neighbourhoods’ organised by the Centre for Community Knowledge, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delh
• A webinar on ‘Why Sufi shrines continue to persist in post-Partition Indian Punjab?’ at a lecture series organised by Aligarh Society of History and Archaeology and hosted by Ganga Jamuni Foundation 12 March 2022; https://www.facebook.com/gangajamuniheritage/videos/942499339745888
• A webinar on ‘Emerging from the Partition: Afterlives of Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab’ at a lecture series History and Heritage: The Afterlife of Monuments organised by India International Centre on 17 February 2022; https://youtu.be/0DVniTJIOWs
• A webinar on ‘Dalit association with Sufi shrine in Punjab’ at the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Series organised by Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on 30 March 2022.
• A lecture on ‘Abohar: A City in History and Memory’ on 05 June 2021 organized Abohar Urban Studio, a project of Municipal Corporation (Abohar) and Indian Institute of Science Education Research, Mohali, https://youtu.be/19zFqiiJPd8.
• A podcast conversation with Sukhraj Singh from the Sikh Archive on ‘Sufism in Punjab’ published on 14 May 2021, https://lnns.co/b3J7foVxjYH.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Itihas ke canvas par nathpanth aur uska badalta hua swaroop’ at Nityanootan Varta lecture series ‘Ideologies of the 21^st Century’ on 04 April 2021.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Partition and Sufi Saint Shrines in East Punjab’ at the Department of History, Kamala Nehru College for Women, University of Delhi on 17 March 2021.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Nath, Bhakti-Sufi Milieu and the Popular Sufi Shrines in Contemporary Punjab’ at a Refresher Course on ‘Thinking Through India: Debating the Legacy of Intellectual Traditions of India and Contemporary Challenges’, organised by Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University, Chandigarh on 13 February 2021.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Partition, Memory and Practice: Territorialising Samadhan Bhagat Jalan Das at Naushera Dhala’ at the Partition Lecture Series organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur on 16 September 2020.
• Delivered a Webinar on ‘History, Memory and Practice of Nathpanth in Punjab’ at Lyallpur Young Historians Club Punjabi lecture series on 24 July 2020.
• Delivered a Webinar on ‘Peeran di yaad vich: Sites of memory in the post-Partition East Punjab’ at Lyallpur Young Historians Club Punjabi lecture series on 10 May 2020.
• Delivered a lecture on 'In the Memory of a Pir’ at Lamakaan, Hyderabad on 06 March 2020.
• Delivered a lecture on 'Urs, Qawwali and Memorialising Sufi Saints of Punjab' at IIIT, Hyderabad on 05 March 2020.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Possibilities of a Gandhian Historiography’ at International Winter School 2020 on Globalization and Religious Diversity: Issues, Perspectives and the relevance of Gandhian Philosophy, organized by Global Studies Programme, Ambedkar University Delhi on 13 January 2020.
• Delivered an inaugural lecture on 'Urs in Qawwali, Qawwali in Urs' at a public event organised by Sufi Kathak Foundation at Royal Opera House, Mumbai on 30 November 2019.
• Delivered a lecture on 'Father, Son and the Making of Early Sikh Tradition' at the Department of History Seminar Series, Delhi University on 30 October 2020.
• Delivered a lecture on the ‘Social Space of a Sacred Narrative’ at Psyfiesta 2018-19, an annual fest organised by Department of Psychology, Gargi College, New Delhi on 11 January 2019. Theme for the fest this year was ‘Exploring life through Narratives’.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Popular Art and Visuality: Reflections from Sufi Shrines of East Punjab’ at the Sociology Seminar Series of Department of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi on 03 October 2018.
• Participated in a book discussion on `A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948' edited by Dr. Neera Burra at Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan, New Delhi on 28 October 2017. 
• Delivered a talk on ‘In Pursuit of Practice’ at the Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University on 07 October 2016.
• Delivered a talk on ‘Situating Popular Veneration’ at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education Research, Mohali on 13 February 2015.
• Lectured and initiated discussion on themes like Religion, Conversion and Popular Religion at a workshop on ‘Religion in Indian History’ organised by Azim Premji University (Bangalore) and Eklavya at Hoshangabad from 16-20 September 2014.
• Delivered a talk on ‘Identity and Diversity’ at JGU-LUMS Conclave organised at O P Jindal Global University, Sonipat on 21 April 2014.
• Delivered a talk on ‘From Region to Transnational: Shrines, Wilayat and the Sacred Landscapes of Punjab’ at the Tuesday Lecture Series of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (New Delhi) on 18 February 2014.
• Conducted two teacher-training workshops on ‘History and the Subalternity' and 'Everyday' in the imagination of History’ with the teachers of DAV Schools of Delhi at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Ashok Vihar (Delhi) on 27-28 June 2013.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Significance of ‘Everyday’ in the discourse on History’ to BA History students of Department of History, Gargi College, University of Delhi on 18 February 2013.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Historicity, Orality and Social Memory: Popular Piety, Rituals and Shrines in Everyday Counter-Modernities of Contemporary Punjab’ to MPhil students of Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics on 17 October 2012.
• Delivered a talk on ‘Sufi Shrines in Post-partition Punjab? Dreams, Memory and Continuities’ organised by Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia on 18 October 2012.
• Facilitated a discussion on ‘Dialectics of a Space: Binary of Popular/Plural and Language/Identity’ at a Workshop Regional Histories: Perspectives from Punjab and the North West organised by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), New Delhi on 25 February 2012.
• Delivered an audio-visual presentation on a documentary ‘The ‘Wall’ of Sirhind: A Journey to a Medieval Town of Punjab’ at the Inauguration of a two-week workshop on Oral History and Video Documentation organised by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), New Delhi on 21 June 2011.
• Initiated discussions on the following themes related to Greater Punjab region from 12-15 July 2010 at a Summer School organised by Indian Formation Research Society at Pachmarhi & Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) from 19 June - 17 July 2010;

1. ‘Regions within a Region: Exploring Region Formations within Greater Punjab’- 12 July 2010.
2. ‘Understanding Khaps Panchayats and State in Haryana’- The discussion was followed by the screening of a recorded lecture on a similar theme by Jagmati Sangwan (AIDWA, Haryana)- 13 July 2010.
3. ‘Sustaining Agriculture, Expanding Diaspora: Migration as a Significant Factor of Economic Formation’- The Discussion was followed by the screening of a documentary ‘Parvaz: The Flight’ on the condition of migrant labour in Amritsar directed by MCVP-DAV Amritsar- 14 July 2010.
4. ‘Farmer Suicides in Punjab and Structure of Agriculture in Punjab’- The discussion was followed by the screening of a film ‘Harvest of Grief’ directed by Anwar Jamal- 15 July 2010.

• Delivered a talk on ‘Invasions, Martyrdom and Partition: Rethinking Historiography of Medieval and Modern Punjab’ at Department of History, Dev Samaj College for Women, Ferozepur on 31 January 2008.
• Interacted with the students of NSS unit of DAV College, Amritsar on Bhagat Singh on 28 September 2007.

• Abohar City Museum: A consultancy project with the Municipal Corporation of Abohar (Punjab); January 2022- June 2022
• SPARC Project titled 'Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Cultures of the Indus Valley' with Prof. Michal Boivin (CNRS, Fran, Prof. Anjali Gera Roy (IIT, Kharagpur), Dr. Javaid Iqbal Bhat (Kashmir University). January-December 2024.
• ‘Farmers Movement Archives’, A joint project with IIIT, Hyderabad; 2020-2021.
• ‘Keywords for Punjab’ A joint book project with Prof. Vivek Sachdeva (GGSIP, Delhi), Dr. Khola Cheema, and Dr. Tohid Chattha. Ongoing