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Title Professor (Dr.) First Amar Last Farooqui Photograph
Name Name
Designation Professor
Address Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, North
Campus, Delhi 110007

Phone No Office 27666659

Residence
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Email [email protected]
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Educational Qualifications
Degree Institution Year
Ph.D. University of Delhi 1990
M.Phil. / M.Tech. M.Phil., History, University of Delhi 1982
PG M.A., History, University of Delhi 1980
UG B.A. (Hons)., History, University of Delhi 1978
Any other qualification
Career Profile
 Reader/Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi, since 2004.
 Lecturer/Reader, Department of History, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, 1983 to 2004.
 Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 2001 to 2004.

Administrative Assignments
Member-Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, April-October 2008

Areas of Interest / Specialization

History of modern India; Colonialism and narcotics; Urban history

Subjects Taught
History: Courses
 B.A. (Hons.): Social Formations of the Ancient and Medieval World

 M.A.: Imperialism and Nationalism; Strategies of Imperial Control; The Great Revolt:1857-59; Emergence of
Modern South Africa

Research Guidance

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List against each head (If applicable)
Supervision of awarded Doctoral Thesis: 2
Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress: 8
Supervision of awarded M.Phil dissertations: 4
Supervision of M.Phil dissertations, under progress: 3

Publications Profile
I. Books/Monographs

1. Colonial Forest Policy in Uttarakhand, 1890-1928, Kitab Publishing House, New Delhi, 1997.
2. i. Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants and the Politics of Opium, New Age International, New
Delhi, 1998.
ii. Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants and the Politics of Opium: 1790-1843, new edition (revised
and updated), Lexington Books, Lanham: Maryland, 2005.
3. Remembering Dr Gangadhar Adhikari: Life, Reminiscences, Selected Writings (edited), People’s Publishing House,
New Delhi, 1998 (Part I); 2000 (Part II).
4. Early Social Formations, Manak Publications, Delhi, 2001; revised second edition, Manak Publications, Delhi, 2002.
5. Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay, Three Essays, New Delhi, 2006.
6. Sindias and the Raj: Princely Gwalior, c.1800-1850, Primus, New Delhi, 2011.
7. Zafar and the Raj: Anglo-Mughal Delhi, c.1800-1857, Primus, New Delhi, 2013.

II. Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals

1. ‘Opium Enterprise and Colonial Intervention in Malwa and Western India, 1800-1824’, The Indian Economic and Social
History Review, Vol. XXXII, no. 4, 1995, pp.447-473.
2. ‘Towards Dussehra 1831: The Revolt of Lallaji Patel’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. XXXV, no. 2,
1998, pp.147-177.
3. ‘Colonialism and Competing Addictions: Morphine Content as Historical Factor’, Social Scientist, Vol. XXXII, nos. 5-6,
2004, pp.21-31.

III. Research papers published in Academic Journals other than Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals; Edited volumes;
Festschrifts etc.
1. ‘Urban Development in a Colonial Situation: Early Nineteenth Century Bombay’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
XXXI, no. 40, 5 October l996, pp.2746-2759.
2. ‘Louis Dumont and the Orientalist Understanding of Caste’, Trends in Social Science Research, Vol. III, no. 2,
December 1996, pp.49-62.
3. ‘Document: John Malcolm’s Note on Malwa Sahukars’, Trends in Social Science Research, Vol. IV, no. 2, December
1997, pp.65-81.
4. ‘From Baiza Bai to Lakshmi Bai: The Sindia State in the Early Nineteenth Century and the Roots of 1857’, in B. Pati ed.,
Essays for Professor Sumit Sarkar, Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 2000, pp.45-74.
5. ‘Baiza Bai aur Unnisvin Sadi ki Shuruat Mein Sindhia Rajya’, Part I, Shodha Samaveta, Vol. X, nos. 3-4, 2001-2, pp.20-
32.
6. ‘Pindaris, Soldiers and State Formation in Malwa, c. 1800-1818’, in B. Pati, B.P. Sahu and T.K.V. Subramanian ed.,
Negotiating India’s Past: Essays in Memory of Partha Sarathi Gupta, Tulika, New Delhi, 2003, pp.87-111.
7. ‘Tribes, Soldiers, and Social Change in Early Nineteenth Century Malwa’, in B.B. Chaudhuri and Arun Bandopadhyay
ed., Tribes, Forest and Social Formation in Indian History, Indian History Congress/Manohar, New Delhi, 2004, pp.145-
160.
8. ‘Trishul Diksha, Cross-Burning and the Politics of Hate’, in Satish Saberwal and Mushirul Hasan ed., Assertive
Religious Identities: India and Europe, Manohar, New Delhi, 2006, pp.255-267.
9. ‘Opium and the Trading World of Western India in the Early Nineteenth Century’, in James Mills and Patricial Barton
ed., Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, 1500-1930, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan,
2007, pp.83-100.
10. ‘Narcotrafficking, Princely Ingenuity and the Raj: The Subjugation of the Sindia State, c. 1843-44’, in Waltraud Ernst
and B. Pati ed., India’s Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism, London, Routledge, 2007, pp.49-67.
11. ‘Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 1857 Revolt’; ‘Lucknow in 1857-58: The Epic Siege’, in S. Yechury, ed., The Great Revolt:

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 A Left Appraisal, People’s Democracy Publications, New Delhi, 2008.
12. ‘1857 and the Anti-Colonial Tradition in Malwa, in Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty’, ed., Uprisings of 1857: Perspectives
and Peripheries, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2009, pp.234-243.
13. ‘Opium as a household remedy in nineteenth-century western India?’, in B. Pati and Mark Harrison, ed., The Social
History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India, London, Routledge, 2009, pp.229-237.
14. ‘Sarkar, Vyaparik Nigam ke Nihit Svarth aur Upneveshvad’, in 1857: Baghavat ke Daur ka Itihas, ed., Murli Manohar
Prasad Singh and Rekha Awasthi, Granthshilpi, New Delhi, 2009, pp.164-170.
15. ‘Empire, Opium and the Nascent Indian Capitalist Class’, in Shireen Moosvi, ed., Capitalism, Colonialism and
Globalization: Studies in Economic Change, Tulika, New Delhi, 2011, pp.81-92.
16. ‘Colonialism and the Problem of Divergence’, in Prabhat Patnaik, ed., Excursus in History: Essays on Some Ideas of
Irfan Habib, Tulika, New Delhi, 2011, pp.187-195.
17. ‘The Decline of Mumbai’s “Hidden” Portuguese Connection, c.1831-1843’, in Manjiri Kamat, ed., Mumbai Past and
Present: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges, Nehru Centre/Indus Source Books, Mumbai, 2013, pp.41-
54.

IV. Miscellaneous Articles:

1. ‘Second Thoughts on Aakrosh’, Mainstream, 1981.
2. ‘Forestry: Behind the Conservation Talk’, Link, 18 July 1982, pp.19-22.
3. ‘E. H. Carr: The Soviet “Connection” of Bourgeois Historiography’, Link, 28 November l982.
4. ‘How the city devours its children’, Mainstream, 14 February 1998, pp.23-26 (published simultaneously in Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII, No. 7, 14 February 1998, pp.328-30).
5. ‘500 Years of Vasco da Gama’, New Age, 16 August 1998.
6. ‘In Defence of Teaching Greco-Roman History’, Mainstream, 26 February 2000, pp.17-20.
7. ‘Remembering Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew’, Mainstream (Independence Day Special), 19 August 2000, pp.37-42.
8. ‘Clash of Stereotypes’, The Hindustan Times, 30 October 2001, editorial page.
8. ‘Dissecting NCERT’s New Social Science Textbooks’, Mainstream, 23 November 2002, pp.7-10.
9. ‘End of History’, The Hindustan Times, 3 January 2003, editorial page.
10. ‘Another Tiger in the Cross-hairs’, The Indian Express, 3 October 2006, op-ed

V. Book Reviews
1. ‘Colonial Get-Away’, Review of Pamela Kanwar’s Imperial Simla: The Political Culture of the Raj, in Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. XXVI, no. 50, 14 December l991, pp.2874-5.
2. Review of Ashin Das Gupta’s Merchants of Maritime India, l500-1800, in Trends in Social Science Research, Vol. III,
no. l, June l996, pp.138-40.
3. Review of Indu Banga, ed., Ports and Their Hinterlands in India, 1700-1950, in Trends in Social Science Research, Vol.
IV, no. 1, June 1997, pp.123-26.
4. ‘Freedom Struggle amidst World War II’, review article on Biswamoy Pati, ed., Turbulent Times: India 1940-44, in
Mainstream, Vol. XXXVII, no. 31, 24 July 1999, pp.23-26.
5. ‘Encompassing a Wider Struggle’, review of Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, eds., A New Moral Economy for India’s
Forests? Discourses of Community and Participation, in The Book Review, Vol. XXIV, no. 8, August 2000, pp.19-20.
6. ‘Scarcity and Alleviation’, review of Sanjay Sharma, Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the
Early Nineteenth Century, in The Book Review, Vol. XXV, no. 11/12, November-December, 2001, pp.9-10.
7. Review of Chhanda Chattopadhyay, Ecology, The Sikh Legacy and the Raj: Punjab 1849-1887, in The Indian Economic
and Social History Review, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 4, 2001, pp.471-73.
8. ‘Sangh Parivar’s “Coup in Slow Motion”, review of Mukul Kesavan, Secular Common Sense, in Mainstream, Vol. XXXX,
no. 6, 26 January 2002, pp.31-34.
9. Review of Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison, eds., Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India, in
Social History of Medicine, Vol. XV, no. 2, April 2002, pp.171-73.
10. ‘Awakening Social Consciousness’, review of Biswamoy Pati, Situating Social History: Orissa (1800-1997), in The Book
Review, Vol. XXVI, no. 6, June 2002, pp.22-23.
11. ‘Writing History’, review of Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh, eds., History and the Present, in The Book Review,
Vol. XXVI, no. 12, December 2002, pp.6-7.
12. ‘Savouring the Richness of the Eighteenth Century’, review of Richard B. Barnett, ed., Rethinking Early Modern India,
in The Book Review, Vol. XXVII, no. 3, March 2003, pp.12-13.
13. ‘The Idea of India’, review of Rajat Kanta Ray, The Felt Community: Commonalty and Mentality Before the
Emergence of Indian Nationalism, in The Book Review, Vol. XXVII, no. 7, July 2003, pp.11-12.
14. Review of Partha Sarathi Gupta, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914-1964 (new edition), Social
Scientist, Vol. XXXII, nos. 1-2, 2004, pp.80-84.

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 15. ‘History Through Lives’, review of Roger D. Long ed., Charisma and Commitment in South Asian History: Essays
Presented to Stanley Wolpert, in The Book Review, Vol. XXVIII, no. 7, July 2004, pp.17-18.
16. ‘Probing Interconnections’, review of Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World, in The Book Review, Vol. XXIX,
no. 8, August 2005, pp. 11-12.
17. ‘History of a Revolt’, review of William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857, in The Book
Review, Vol. XXXI, no.3, March 2007, pp. 45-46.
18. Review of Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China, in Social History of Medicine, Vol. XX, no.1, April 2007,
pp.182-83.
19. Review of Pramod K. Nayar, ed., The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar; and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, ed., Rethinking
1857, in The Book Review, April 2008.
19. Review of P.M.S Grewal, Bhagat Singh: Liberation’s Blazing Star; S. Irfan Habib, To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and
Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades; and Kuldip Nayar, The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh, in The Book
Review, 2009
19. Review of 1857 Salahuddin Malik, War of Independence or Clash of Civilizations?: British Public Reactions, in The
Book Review, 2009.
20. Review of Gyanendra Pandey, The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus, in Contemporary Perspectives: History and
Sociology of South Asia, Vol.III, no.2, 2009, pp.369-74.
21. Review of Shireen Moosvi, ed., Facets of the Great Revolt: 1857, edited by Shireen Moosvi, The Hindu, 2009.
22. Review of Marcel van der Linden and Prabhu P. Mohapatra, eds., Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories (Essays
in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya), in The Book Review, 2010.
23. Review of Karuna Mantena, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism, in The Book Review,
August 2010.
24. Review of Mrinal Pande, tr., Maajha Pravas, in The Asian Age, 6 March 2011.
25. Review of Kaushik Roy, Partition of India: Why 1947?, in The Book Review, March 2012.
26. Review of Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, in The Book Review, April
2012.
27. Review of Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, Telegraphic Imperialism: Crisis and Panic in the Indian Empire, c.1830,
Social Scientist, Vol. XXXX, nos. 3-4, 2012, pp.101-103.
28. Review of Partha Chatterjee, The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power, in The Book Review,
October 2012.
29. Review of Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Other Orientalisms: India Between Florence and Bombay, 1860-1900, in The Book
Review, June 2013.

Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years)

 Narcotics and the Estado da Índia: The Colonial Trade in Opium, XIII International Conference on Indo-
Portuguese History, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 2010.
 Late Colonial Goa Through the Eyes of Maria Aurora Couto’s Goa: A Daughter’s Story, Seminar on
Reconstructing History: Tracing the History of Goanese Women, University of Paris, Sorbonne IV, Paris, 2010.
 Narcotic Commodities and Empire: A Note on Some Aspects of the Contradictions between Colonialism and the
Nascent Indian Capitalist Class, Seminar on Economic Change in Indian History, Indian History Congress,
Delhi, 2010.
 The Colonial State, The Company, and the Mughal Emperor: Some Reflections on Processes of Legitimation,
Presidential Address, Modern India Section, 43rd Session of the Punjab History Conference, Punjabi University,
Patiala, 2011.
 Order and Legitimacy in the Imperial City: Early Years of Anglo-Mughal Delhi, Fifth Professor D.D. Kosambi
Memorial Lecture, Ruia College, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, 2012.
 Shah Alam and the Failure of the Browne Mission, National Seminar on Revisiting the ‘Eighteenth Century’ in
Indian History, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, 2012.
 Politics, Religious Conflict and Sovereignty in Early Anglo-Mughal Delhi, Maulana Azad Memorial Lecture,
ICHR, Delhi, 12 November 2012.
 Co-coordinator, XIV International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History on the theme ‘India, the Portuguese
and the Indian Ocean Societies: Exchanges and Engagements’, New Delhi, February 2013.

Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)

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Awards and Distinctions

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Association With Professional Bodies

1. Member, Indian History Congress

Other Activities
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, History and Sociology of South Asia

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