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Ramya Sreenivasan Assistant Professor office: 560 Park Hall phone: (716) 645-2181 ext. 560 e-mail: rs75@buffalo.edu

Education:

PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2002

Courses:
History of South Asia, 1500 to the present
Women in South Asian history, 1500 to the present
Religion, State and Society in South Asia
Islam and Muslims in modern South Asia

Field(s): South Asia, Islam

Hub(s): Culture & Society, Gender, Knowledge

Research Interests: Early modern South Asia; religion and caste in early modern Rajasthan; colonialism and modernity; gender history.

Current Research: Religion and caste in early modern Rajasthan

Selected Publications:

The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in Indian History c. 1500-1900. Permanent Black (New Delhi) and University of Washington Press, 2007.

"Drudges, Dancing-girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500-1850". In Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton, eds. Slavery and South Asian History, Indiana University Press, 2006.

"Genre, Politics, History: Urdu Traditions of Padmini."  In Kathryn Hansen and David Lelyveld, eds. A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective . Oxford University Press, Spring 2005.

"Honoring the family: narratives and politics of Rajput kinship in pre-modern Rajasthan."  In Indrani Chatterjee, ed. Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia .   Permanent Black (New Delhi) and Rutgers University Press, 2004.

The 'marriage' of hindu and turak : Medieval Rajput histories of Jalor."  Medieval History Journal , Spring 2004.