DR Shabnum Tejani
| Biography | Shabnum Tejani did her BA in Politics at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA and her MA and PhD in History at Columbia University. She joined the History Department in SOAS in 2002. She has taught courses in South Asian History as well as historiography and methodology courses to undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. |
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| Research Interests | I have a longstanding interest in intellectual history and political philosophy. My book, Indian Secularism: a Social and Intellectual History, 1890-1950, traced the emergence of an idea of secularism in India. I have also written on the Indian constitution, temple entry movements, Ambedkar and Gandhi, land speculation in twentieth-century Bombay, the history and politics of emotions, and am currently working on a new project on the history of gold in India. Further research interests are in the history of leather and leather tanning, and Wayanad, Kerala, as a site of cultural and ecological change. |
| Teaching and Learning | Courses currently taught: UG: Colonialism and Culture in Modern South Asia Nationalism and Identity in South Asia MA: Debating Pasts, Crafting Histories (compulsory for MA History) Reconfiguring Global History (compulsory for MA History) Critical Histories of Postcolonial South Asia |