{"id":2425,"date":"2025-03-09T01:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exploringhistory.in\/?page_id=2425"},"modified":"2025-06-16T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:09:21","slug":"advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exploringhistory.in\/index.php\/advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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1. Prof. Smriti Kumar Sarkar<\/strong>
Former Vice-chancellor, University of Burdwan, and Member, Governing Council, ICHR, New Delhi, India.<\/p>

2. Prof. Jayanta Sengupta<\/strong>
Director, Alipore Museum, Kolkata, India.<\/p>

3. Prof Deepak Kumar<\/strong>
Former Professor, History of Science and Education, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and Founder President, Society for the History of Science Kolkata (SHSK), India.<\/p>

4. Prof. Raziuddin Aquil<\/strong><\/p>

Department of History, University of Delhi, India.<\/p>

5. Prof. Amit Dey\u00a0<\/strong>
Asutosh (Chair) Professor of Medieval and Modern, Indian History, University of Calcutta, India.<\/p>

6. Prof. Michael Mann<\/strong>
Professor in History, Department of South Asia Studies, Humboldt University, Germany.<\/p>

7. Prof. Arabinda Samanta<\/strong>
Former Professor in History, University of Burdwan, India.<\/p>

8. Prof. Sajal Nag<\/strong>
Professor in History, Assam University, Silchar, India.<\/p>

9. Prof. Laxman D Satya<\/strong>
Professor in History, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, US.<\/p>

10. Dr. Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda<\/strong>
Project Director, ICHR & the Distinguished Fellow of Asian Confluence, Meghalaya, India.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Exploring History: A Journal of Indian and Asian History (since 2008)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

ISSN 2230-8490<\/span><\/strong>
<\/span>Issue: XIX<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

June 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Concept Note<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

Histories at the Limit of Nationalist History: <\/strong>Transition, Transgression and Transformation in South Asia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

Scholars and researchers are invited to submit original research articles for publication in an upcoming academic volume exploring new historiographical perspectives beyond the conventional boundaries of nationalist history in South Asia.<\/span><\/p>

For long, the writing of South Asian history has largely been shaped by nationalist frameworks that privilege state-centric narratives, institutional histories, and elite political actors. While these frameworks have contributed significantly to the discipline, they often overlook the complex interactions of communities, cultures, and local experiences that lie beyond the domain of official archives and macro-national narratives.<\/span><\/p>

This proposed publication seeks to explore histories that exist at the margins\u2014or limits\u2014of nationalist historiography. It aims to bring together scholarly works that examine how minor, micro, and subaltern histories challenge, complicate, or reframe dominant narratives of the nation.<\/span><\/p>

A central focus of the volume will be on community interactions, cultural exchanges, and everyday practices that shaped South Asian societies but remain insufficiently represented in mainstream historiography. Many of these histories cannot be reconstructed solely through conventional archival sources; instead, they emerge through oral traditions, alternative archives, community memory, folk narratives, literary representations, and vernacular knowledge systems.<\/span><\/p>

By foregrounding these sources and perspectives, the volume seeks to anthologise diverse historical imaginaries that can reshape our understanding of institutions, nationalist cartographies, and identity politics in South Asia.<\/span><\/p>

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Possible Themes (Indicative)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>