Garima Dhabhai
Date of Birth: 09-11-1986
Education
2012 onwards: PhD
Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Title: Memory and Representation: Politics of Urban Space in Contemporary Jaipur
2010-2012: M.Phil in Political Studies
Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
CGPA: 7.38
Dissertation Title: ‘Prince, Paramount, People: Deciphering ‘Princely’ Idioms and Symbols in Colonial and Postcolonial Jaipur’
2008-2010: MA in Political Studies
Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
CGPA : 7.12
2005-2008: BA (Honours) in Political Science
Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, New Delhi, India
62% Aggregate
2005: All India Senior School Certificate Examination (CBSE XII) in Humanities
Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ School, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
93.6% aggregate
2003: Secondary School Examination (CBSE X)
St. Anselm’s Pink City School, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
93.4% aggregate
Workshops and Conferences
· Participated in a workshop ‘Researching the Contemporary” from 6th July 2010 to 26th August 2010 in Centre for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
· Participated in the Winter school on the ‘Life and Thought of Gandhi’ held in Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from 1st December- 15th December, 2010, convened by Prof. Tridip Suhrud.
· Presented a short paper on 9th March 2010 in a round table with Prof. Partha Chatterjee organized by Centre for Political Studies, JNU
· Presented a paper titled ‘The Rajput ‘Prince’ or an Imperial ‘Subject’- An analysis of the Materiality of Empire’ at the 16th International Cultural Studies Workshop on ‘Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism’ organised by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta at IDS, Jaipur from 23-28 January, 2011.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Paramount State and Ruler-Citizen: Privy Purses Abolition and its Aftermath’ at the LASSNET Delhi Chapter Conference held at the Centre for Law and Governance, JNU on 4th February, 2012.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Paramountcy on Princely Terrain: Courtly Intrigues and Imperial Law in India’ in the international workshop on ‘Spaces of Law’ organised jointly by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata and Plymouth University, UK at CSSSC, Kolkata from 11-13 December, 2012.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Paramountcy and People: Princely Idioms in Indian Politics’ in CPS Young Scholars’ National Conference organized by Centre for Political Studies, JNU, UGC-DSA and ICSSR on 21-23 March, 2013.
· Participated in a PhD Workshop on ‘Social Science Approaches to Urban Studies’ organized by the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi and ICSSR in Goa from December 19-23, 2013.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Representing ‘Princely’ Past: Royal Processions in Contemporary Jaipur’ in International Young Scholars’ Conference, organized by Centre for Historical Studies, JNU in collaboration with ICSSR and ICHR from 5-7 February, 2014 in New Delhi.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Visible Histories, Invisible Contestations: The Story of ‘Pink’ in the Pink City’ at the Visual Anthropology and Contemporary South Asian History Conference held at CRASSH, University of Cambridge on 4-5 April, 2014.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Excavating the city: Metro Construction and Imagination of ‘Past’ in Contemporary Jaipur’ in the HSS Graduate Conference on ‘Life in the Indian City’ held at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi on 18 April, 2015. The paper was awarded ‘Best Paper in PhD Category’.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Of a Lost River and a Dirty Creek: Contestations over Urban Space in Contemporary Jaipur’ in a conference on ‘Urban Spaces in Modern India’ held at IIAS, Shimla on 9-10 June, 2015.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Visible Histories, Invisible Contestations: The Story of ‘Pink’ in the Pink City’ at South Asia Brown Bag Series in Yale University in October 2015.
· Presented ‘Recreating ‘Princely’ Aura: Royal Processions and Urban Space in Contemporary Jaipur’ in Ethnography and Social Theory Workshop held at Anthropology Department, Yale in January 2016.
· Presented a paper tilted ‘Excavating the city: Metro Construction and Imagination of ‘Past’ in Contemporary Jaipur’ at Yale Modern South Asia Workshop for Graduate students held on March 4-March 5 2016.
· Presented a paper titled ‘From Princely to the Popular: Jaipur’s transformation to a Capital City’ at BASAS Annual Conference held at University of Cambridge on April 6-April 8 2016.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Crafting Cityscapes: Deciphering the ‘Political’ in Beautification Regime in Contemporary Jaipur’ held at Gottingen University, Germany on June 24-June 25th 2016.
· To present a paper titled ‘Excavating the city: Metro Construction and Imagination of ‘Past’ in Contemporary Jaipur’ held in Heidelberg University, Germany on 12-14 October, 2016.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Political Public in a Princely City: Land and Mobility in Contemporary Jaipur’ at UGC-DSA seminar on Rethinking Political Publics in Centre for Political Studies, JNU on 9th November, 2016.
· Presented a paper titled ‘Visible Histories, Invisible Contestations: Practices of Image-Making and Pink in Contemporary Jaipur’ at AUD Urban Tiffin Series on 20th March 2017 at Ambedkar University, Delhi
Publications:
· ‘Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary Jaipur’ in Tereza Kuldova and Mathew Varghese (eds.), Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsions in Neoliberal South Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
· ‘Heritage in Indian Urban Planning’ in Fox International Fellowship Policy Brief Series, 2015
Fellowships and Grants
· Awarded Fox Fellowship for the academic year 2015-16 at Yale University, USA.
· Awarded CBSE Merit Scholarship for pursuing undergraduate studies from 2005 to 2008
· Awarded Junior Research Fellowship by UGC for pursuing research in Political Science in Jawaharlal Nehru University from August 2010- July 2015
· Awarded travel grant by ICSSR to participate in the Visual Anthropology and Contemporary South Asian History Conference at Cambridge, UK in April, 2014.
Teaching Experience
· Taught at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, as an Ad-hoc Assistant Professor in Political Science Department from 10th October, 2011 to 30th November, 2011.
· Taught at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University as an Ad-hoc Assistant Professor in Political Science Department from 23rd July, 2012 to 22nd November, 2012.
· Taught at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, as an Ad-hoc Assistant Professor in Political Science Department for three semesters, i.e. from 3rd January, 2013 to 2nd May, 2013, 29th July, 2013 to 2nd November, 2013 and from 3rd January, 2014 to 2nd May, 2014.
· Teaching in St. Stephen’s College, DU from 20th July, 2016 as Assistant Professor (ad-hoc).
Research and Professional Experience
· Worked as a Research Assistant to Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta, JNU, paper contributor on the topic ‘Ethics and Politics’ for preparation of Trend Report for Sixth Round of ICSSR Research Survey and Explorations in Political Science (covering the period 2003-2009) in 2011.
· Conducted Heritage Walks in Jaipur with Virasat Foundation in October-November, 2014 as a part of my doctoral field work.
Personal Details
Permanent Address: C/o Mr. B.S. Dhabhai
359, 10- B Scheme,
Near Gopalpura Bypass
Jaipur-302018, Rajasthan
India
Mobile: +918826131960
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