Brief Curriculum Vitae of Professor Shraddha Kumbhojkar.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Name – Shraddha Kumbhojkar
Age – 51
Email - shraddha@unipune.ac.in shraddhakumbhojkar@gmail.com
Designation - Professor and Head, Department of History,
Savitribai Phule Pune University, INDIA.
Director (Addl Charge), Centre for Asian Studies, SPPU
Academic Qualifications M. A., Ph.D.
No Examination Institution Subject Year of
Passing
Grade
1 Doctor of Philosophy University of Pune History 2002
2 NET and Junior
Research Fellowship
University Grants
Commission
History 1995 NET & JRF Passed
3 Master of Arts University of Pune History 1994 First Class
4 Bachelor of Arts Fergusson College,
Pune
History 1992 First Class with
Distinction
5 Master of Arts Tilak Maharashtra
Vidyapeeth
Sanskrit 1995 B+
6 Bachelor of Arts T. M. V. Pune Sanskrit 1992 Ist
Rank
 Areas of Expertise – Historiography, Maharashtra in the 19th
Century, Marathi Theatre,
Nationalism, Modernity and Europe, Memory Studies, Dalit Studies, Vedic Literature,
Sanskrit
 Career Profile
Period Institution Position
1996- 2002 Nehru Institute of Social Sciences, Tilak
Maharashtra Vidyapeeth
Lecturer
2002-27-08-2007 Dept of History, Tilak Maharashtra
Vidyapeeth.
Lecturer (Senior
Scale)
27-08-2007 to 27-08-
2010
Dept of History, Tilak Maharashtra
Vidyapeeth.
Assistant Professor
27-08-2010 to 25-03-
2013
Dept of History, Tilak Maharashtra
Vidyapeeth.
Associate Professor
26-03-2013 to 27-02-20 Department of History, SPPU Associate Professor
27-02-2020 till date Department of History, SPPU Professor
March 2016- Centre for Asian Studies, SPPU Director (Additional
Charge)
31 July 2019 till date Department of History, SPPU Professor and Head
 Courses Taught-
Intellectual History of the Modern West, Theory and Practice of History, Debates in Indian
History, Research Methodology, Modern Maharashtra.

2.  Research Guidance- 9 Ph. D., 6 M. Phil. awarded.
 Research Projects Completed
1. UGC Minor Research Project – Nationalism, Literature and Creation of Memory – A
Case Study of Maharashtra. 2002.
2. UGC Major Research Project “Memory, Textbooks of History and Communalisation of
Identity: A Survey of High-School Students in Pune District” 2006-2009.
3. Modernity and Popular Culture In Maharashtra in the late 19th Century – CSSH- UPE
funded, August 2013-January 2016.
4. Construction of Caste in 19th
Century Maharashtra
Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, UPE – II, SPPU. Joint project with
researchers from Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences JSPS. 2017-2018.
5. Impact Assessment of free Wi-Fi Access on Learning Outcomes: A Study of
Social Science Students of SP Pune University, Centre for Social Sciences and
Humanities, UPE – II, SPPU. 2016-2018
6. Digital Humanities : Study of a Dialogue between technology, policy and
knowledge creation
Awarded IMPRESS Grant of Rs. 9,45,000/- by the Indian Council for Social Science
Research (ICSSR) 2019-2021.
7. Impact Assessment of Tourism Related Policies on Local Communities near the
World Heritage Sites of Maharashtra
Awarded Research Project Grant of Rs. 5,42,000/- by the Rashtriya Uchchatar
Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Maharashtra. 2020-21.
8. Role of Buddhism in Redefining Social Hierarchies
Joint Project with Prof. Vidya Nadkarni and Dr. Joel Gruber. University of
San Diego, USA. 2018-21.
 Research Projects Ongoing-
1. A Historical Study of two Satya Shodhak Samajist Newspapers- Deenbandhu
(1877-1910) and Deenmitra (1910- 1967) awarded a Research Project Grant of
Rs. 3,00,000/- by the Indian Council of Historical Research.(ICHR)
2. Impact Assessment of Tourism Related Policies on Local Communities near the
World Heritage Sites of Maharashtra (Phase II)
Awarded Research Project Grant of Rs. 2,00,000/- by the Rashtriya Uchchatar
Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Maharashtra. 2022-23.
3. Medieval Indian History : Perceptions and Mentalities
Research Grant of 80,000 awarded by the Inter-Disciplinary School of Social
Sciences and Humanities, SPPU. 2022-23. (Co-Investigator – Prof. Rahul Magar)
.
 Books Published-
1. Nationalism, Literature and Creation of Memory
Sugawa Prakashan, Pune, March 2008. ISBN – 978-81-906132-9-3
2. 19th
Century Maharashtra: A Reassessment (Edited)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, U. K. June 2009.
ISBN (10):1-4438-0603-X, ISBN (13):978-1-4438-0603-9

3.  Monograph-
Modernity and Popular Culture In Maharashtra in the late 19th Century , published by the
Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, SPPU, Pune. 2016.
 International – Research Papers Published
1. A Study of Ancient Indian Texts as Means to Control the Process of
Administering the Past
Textos De Historia, Volume 10, Numeros½ Universidad de Brasilia, Brazil, 2002. ISSN
0104 1487
2. Denial of Centrality to Vedic Texts : Alternative Routes in History Studies
Postcolonial Challenges to the Study of religions, (Eds.) Willy Pfandtner, David Thurfjell,
Swedish Science Press, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.
ISBN 978-91-89652-35-4. ISSN 1650-8718
3. Alternative Route to a Subaltern Utopia
19th
Century Maharashtra : A Reassessment, (ed.) Shraddha Kumbhojkar, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, Newcastle- Upon – Tyne, U.K. 2009.
ISBN (10):1-4438-0603-X, ISBN (13):978-1-4438-0603-9
4. From Slaves to Sultans – Mamleuk Dynasty
Heritage India, Volume 4 Issue 2 May 2011, Pp 36-43. ISSN 0974- 2506.
5. Politics, Caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon
Sites of Imperial Memory, (ed.) Dominik Geppert, Frank Lorenz Muller, Manchester
University Press, Manchester, New York, 2015. ISBN – 978-0-7190-9081-3.
6. Dalits, Internet and Emancipatory Politics.
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 3 (1), 45-56. April
2018, ISSN(print/online): 2469-0783.
7. Marathi Theatre in Transition
Researching Transitions in Indian History, Radhika Seshan, Shraddha Kumbhojkar (ed.),
Routledge, Delhi. 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-36381-6.
8. Access Denied? Cultural Capital and Digital Access
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 4 (1), 65-78. October 2018-
March 2019, ISSN(print/online): 2469-0783.
9. Internet as an Emancipatory Space : Case Study of Dalits in India
in Spaces and Places in Western India, (ed.) Bina Sengar, Laurie Hovell McMillin,
Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367777395.
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Shraddha Kumbhojkar