Janaki Nair Professor Office: 119, SSS I 91-11-26704477 nair.janaki@gmail.com Education: PhD, Syracuse University, History, 1991 MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Modern History, 1983 BA, Bangalore University, History, Economics, Political Science, 1976 Research Interests: Social, political and cultural history of Mysore/Karnataka; legal history; urban history; feminism; visual culture Profile: Employment Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Professor, 2009- Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Professor, 2002-2009 Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Visiting Fellow, 2000-2002 Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Visiting Fellow, 1998-2000 Madras Institute of Development Studies, Fellow, 1994-1998 Fellowships, Grants, and Honours New India Foundation Book Prize, 2005 for The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century Prince Claus Fund Fellowship, The Netherlands, 2000-2002 Sephis Fellowship, The Netherlands, 1998-2000 John Saville Award, UK, 1997 to make the film After the Gold (60 mins) Post Doctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University, 1993-94

Publications Books Mysore Modern: Reconceptualising the Region under Princely Rule, University of Minnesota Press, 2011; Orient Blackswan, 2012 The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century

Oxford University Press, January 2005; second printing November 2005 Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore, Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998 Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History, Delhi: Kali for Women, 1996

Edited Books With Anjan Ghosh and Tapati Guha Thakurta, Theorising the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011 With Mary John, A Question of Silence: Sexual Economies of India, Kali for Women, 1998 Important Articles “Mysore’s Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition and its Imagined Economies” Modern Asian Studies, forthcoming.

“The ‘Composite’ State and Its ‘Nation’: Karnataka’s Reunification Revisited Economic and Political Weekly (19th November 2011):

“Eighteenth Century Passages to the History of Mysore” in Partha Chatterjee and Raziuddin Aquil eds. History in the Vernacular (Delhi Permanent Black, 2008) "'Memories of Underdevelopment': The Identities of language in Contemporary Karnataka" Economic and Political Weekly 21.42 (October 12, 1996)

"On the Question of Female Agency in Indian Feminist Historiography" Gender and History, 6.1 (1994)

"Uncovering the Zenana: Visions of Indian Womanhood in Englishwomen's Writings", Journal of Women's History, 2.1 (Spring 1990)

Lecture Courses Number Title Outline and Readings M Work, Culture and Politics: Comparative

Histories of Labour PDF

M Capitalism/Colonialism PDF M The City in Modern History

Seminar Courses Number Title M Popular Protests and Politics 1900-1947 M Problems in Economic History of Modern India I