1. Selling History: Tourist Guides, Bazaar Histories, and the Politics of the Past
Since 2017
Part of ICAS:MP Thematic Module 1: History as a Political Category
Indra Sengupta (Principal Investigator), German Historical Institute London
Neeladri Bhattacharya (Principal Investigator), Ashoka University, New Delhi
Assisted by:
- Paulami Guha Biswas
- Soheb Niazi
- Ufaque Paiker
(ii) Migration of Images, Texts, Ideas and Objects from Timurid Central Asia to Mughal India, 16th–18th Centuries
February 2019–June 2023
A part of the Transnational Research Project Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology, funded by the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Dipanwita Donde, Research Fellow, MWF Delhi
(iii) Divisions of Labour: Histories of Formalisation and Informalisation in the Transition to Postcolonial India
January 2022–January 2025
Ravi Ahuja (Principal Investigator), Professor, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen
Assisted by:
- Mayur Chetia
(iv) Society in Prison: A Social History of the Colonial Prison, c. 1883–1947
January 2022 to April 2024
Michaela Dimmers, Research Fellow, MWF Delhi
(v) Crisis as catalyst: Covid-19, Social Citizenship and Political Transformation in India
April 2022–August 2023
DFG Funded Project
Ravi Ahuja (Principal Investigator), Professor, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen
Camille Buat (Project Coordinator), Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen University
Assisted by:
- Rajat Sharma
- Amartyajyoti Basu
- Sachin Dev
(vi) Hide Hierarchies: A social and economic history of the entangled networks of meat, tanning and leather industries (1860-1960)
August 2022–April 2023
Soheb Niazi, Research Fellow, MWF Delhi (January-March 2023)
(vii) Tazkirah-e Jamia: Retrieving Past Lives from Jamia
January–March 2023
Joint Initiative by MWF Delhi and the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi
Soheb Niazi, Research Fellow, MWF Delhi
(viii) Revisiting the Craft of History Writing for Children
January 2022 – December 2024
A collaborative project of Debarati Bagchi, MWF Delhi (author and series co-editor)
Funded by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) South Asia, housed at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
(ix) MoU on academic collaboration with Das moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven (MIDA)
January 2023–October 2026
(x) MoU on academic collaboration with Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
September 2023 onwards
(xi) MoU on academic collaboration with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi
December 2023 onwards
