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Pallavi Chakravarty

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Affiliation

  • Assistant Professor , School of Liberal Studies

Email

    pallavi@aud.ac.in

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Qualification

  • PhD (Department of History, University of Delhi)

Past Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Maitreyi College (DU) 2011-2015

Area of Expertise

  • Partition of the Indian Subcontinent and its Aftermath, Refugee Studies, specialization (Modern Indian History).

Awards

  • Awarded with Certificate and Trophy for securing 2nd Rank in University of Delhi and 1st Rank in Ramjas College in both years of MA History  [2005 and 2006]
  • Received the first University Teaching Assistantship award [four year fellowship awarded on merit] introduced in Delhi University and on account of which promoted to PhD course after completion of MPhil coursework [2007-11]
  • Received the first TATA-The 1947 Partition Archive Fellowship for a one month period full access to the vast archives of the The 1947 Partition Archive. [July 2021]
  • Received the prestigious Junior Fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (now Pradhan Mantri Sanghralaya, or PMML] for a period of two years [2021-23]

Publications

Book/s:

  • Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitating Refugees in India, 1947-71, New Delhi: Primus Books (2022).
  • Urbanisation in Bengal: Ideas, Institutions and Policies, Oxon: Routledge (2024, forthcoming)

Articles:

  • ‘From the Margins: Refugee Women and Children in the Wake of India’s Partition and Forced Displacement’, Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, Vols 61-62, (July 2023) MCRG, pp.34-55.
  • ‘Remembering a Date in the History of the Indian Subcontinent’ in Studies in History, 38(2) 162–179, (2022).
  • ‘Ecotones of Resistance: The Contested Narratives of the Post-Partition Refugee in Bengal, 1947-71’ in Marcus Arnold, Corinne Duboin and Judith Misrahi-Barak (eds),Borders and
  • Ecotones in the Indian Ocean: Cultural and Literary Perspectives, Paris: Plume Publishers (2020)
  • ‘The Story of Partition from the Official and the Alternate Archives’ in Churnjeet Mahn and Anne Murphy (eds), Partition and the Practice of Memory London: Palgrave, Macmillan (2018)
  • ‘Redefining the Partition Refugee’ in ICHR Vol 75, New Delhi (2014)

Interview:

Seminar/Conferences

  • Invited speaker to Maitreyi College, 4th September 2019. Topic: Caste in Partition. 
  • Paper titled ‘‘NotunYehudi’ (The New Jews): A Study of the Refugees from East Pakistan in Post-Partition India,  selected for presentation at the In Global Transit Conference, GHI West, University of California Berkeley, 19th-22nd May 2019.
  • Paper titled: ‘Identifying the ‘genuine’ refugee’, in Ecotones 4: Partitions and Borders, CSSSC, Kolkata, 12-15th December 2018.
  • Invited Speaker at Wednesday History Seminar Series, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana, 15th February 2017, Paper titled, ‘Revisting the Definition of the Partition Refugee’. 
  • Paper titled ‘Revisiting the Definition of the Partition Refugee’ at the International Conference on ‘Global Migration: Rethinking Skills; Knowledge and Culture’ organised by the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism at the India International Centre, New Delhi, 26-27th November 2016.
  • Presenting Paper titled ‘Retelling Partition: The East West Story’ at 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Presented at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi the findings of my research, titled ‘Post Partition Refugee Rehabilitation in India with special reference to Bengal, 1947-1971’, 6th November 2012. 
  • Presented paper titled ‘Redefining the Refugee Coming from East Pakistan’ at the ICHR sponsored Students Workshop held at Department of History, University of Delhi, 26th-28th April 2011. 
  • Presented paper titled ‘Representing Partition in the East’ at the International Conference on Bengal Studies organised by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi, 25th – 28th February 2010. Among fifteen students who received Honorarium for presentation.
  • Paper titled ‘Empowerment in a Moment of Despondency: A Silver Lining in the Dark Clouds of Partition’selected for presentation at the 18th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Granted the John Fell OUP post-graduate bursary by the WHN Conference organisers. 11th -13th September 2009.
  • Presented paper titled ‘Partition Historiography: Changes and Challenges’ at the International Association for the Historians of Asia conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 14th-17th November 2009.

Resource Person:

  • Resource Person in the Virtual Workshop on Collating History Resources for Teachers in Higher Education organized by National Resource Centre for Education of this Institute during October 08-09, 2020 at NIEPA, New Delhi.
  • Resource Person for CSBM organised research workshop on Research Methodology for Migration Studies, Kolkata.18-21st October 2021.
  • Keynote Speaker, Indian Society for Promotion of English Language and Literature (ISPELL), Month dedicated to Partition Literature, 1st May 2022.

 

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