Prabhat Kumar

Prabhat Kumar

Prabhat Kumar

assistant Professor, Department of history,Presidency University,Kolkata, Phone +91-9007963381
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Education
Currently submitting PhDtitled “Satire, Modernity and Transculturality in the late 19th and early 20th century North India” in the Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelbergwithin the framework ofResearch Project B1 (Asian Satire) of “Asia Europe: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” atthe Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg Universitysince July 2009.Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick and Prof. Dr. Hans Harder.
Completed M.Phil. at the Centre for Historical Studies (CHS), JawaharlalNehru University (2001-2003) in First division (CGPA-7.76 in 9 point scale i.e. 77%). M.Phil. dissertation “Rambriksha Benipuri:The Man and His Ideas” was supervised by Prof. Tanika Sarkar and Dr. Indivar Kamtekar.
M.A.in Modern Indian History from CHS/JNU (1999-2001) in higher second class (CGPA 6.06 in 9 point scale i.e. 67%).
B.A. (Hons.) in History from Hindu College, University of Delhi (1996-1999) in second division (55.3 %).
Completed I.Sc. (Intermediate degree in Sciences) from Bihar Intermediate Research Council, Patna (1993-1995) in first division (72%)
Completed Matriculation from Bihar School Examination Board, Patna (1993) in first division (73.55%)
Previous Teaching experience
TTaught a seminar course "Interrogating Indian 'Renaissance': Hindi Literature and Socio-political Consciousness in the Late 19th Century Colonial North India" to B.A. students in the History Department, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University in the Winter semester 2009-10.
Taught“Culture in India”, “Environmental Issues in India”, “History of Modern Europe”, “History of Modern India” and “Social Formation in Ancient World” as a Guest Lecturer in Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma (ARSD) College (History Department), University of Delhi; from August 2007 to March 2008, in Gargi College, (History Department), University of Delhi from August 2006 to March 2007, in ARSD College (History Department), University of Delhi; from August 2005 to March 2006
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PubliCation
“From Punch to Matvālā: Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format”(Forthcoming 2012) In Hans Harder and Barbara Mittler (eds.) Punch: A Transcultural Reading. (Heidelberg: Springer, Forthcoming 2013)
“Colonialism, Modernity and Hindi Satire in the Late Nineteenth Century” published in Zeitschrift fürIndologie und Südasienstudien (ZIS 28, 2011, 105-44) or Journal of Indology and South Asian Studies, Göttingen, Germany.
Papers worked on
‘Cartooning Muslim ‘Other’: Hindi Political Sphere in 1920s’ under Visiting Research Fellowship Programme, January-February 2012, Centre for Modern Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany.
Presented a paper titled “‘Household Events’ in the Late 19th Century Bihar” in a workshop Engendering and Degendering South Asian Studies at Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humbolt University, Berlin in May 2011.
Presented a paper titled “Caricature and the Hindi Literary Sphere, 1900-1930” in a Workshop Caricature as Transcultural Media of Political and Social Propaganda in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism, March 2011, Caricature Museaum and Arts Center, Fayoum, Egypt.
Presented a paper titled “Satirizing Technology: Literary Perceptions of Railways in Late Nineteenth Century Colonial North India”in a workshop Perceptions of Science and Technology in pre-colonial and Colonial South Asia, September 2010, Asia Europe, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University.
Presented a paper titled “Satire Modernity and Public Sphere” at Panel 42 Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity, ECMSAS, July 2010, Bonn.
Presented a paper titled “Cartoon, Visuality and the Hindi Literary Sphere”in workshop at Centre for Modern Orient (ZMO), Berlin in July 2010.
Presented a paper titled “Urban Imaginary and Hindi Satire in the Late Nineteenth Century Colonial North India” in a workshop Space, Capital and Social History in South Asia, June 2010, Center for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen University.
Presented a paper titled “From Punch to Matwala: Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format”in a workshop The British Punch Magazine as Transcultural Format of Satire and Caricature, November 2009, Asia Europe, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University.
Presented a paper in Hindi titled“Yuvak Sangh Aur Yuvak :1920 Ke Dashak Mein Bihar Ka Bauddhik Parivesh” under the Independent Fellowship Programme2006 of SARAI, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Rajpur Road, New Delhi.
Fellowship Other than PhD
Visiting Fellowship, January-February 2012, Centre forModernOrient (ZMO), Berlin,Germany.
IndependentFellowshipProgramme, January-September 2006, SARAI, CSDS, New Delhi.
Languages
English, Hindi, Maithili, Bengali.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 2nd December, 1978.
Local Address in India: C/0 Sudeshna Mukharji, 146/6 Prince Anwar Shah Road, Lake Gardens, Kolkata-45.
Local address in Germany: c/o Nitin Varma, Oppelner Strasse 9, 10997 Berlin, Germany.
Permanent address: Village + Post Office – Basopatti, District – Madhubani, Bihar, India. Phone: + 91- 6246273271
Parents: Bisheshwar Prasadand Parwati Devi.

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