Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Sudeshna Guha
Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact Information
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- Number: 726
Histories of Archaeology, The archaeology of South Asia and Early India, Art and Architecture of Pre-colonial India, Historiography, Visual Histories, Materiality, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage and Ethics, Archaeology and Nationalism
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- 1990–1991: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
- 1990. Ph.D. Archaeology. Deccan College, University of Poona (undertaken between 1985-1989)
- 1985. M.A. Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology. Deccan College, University of Poona
- 1983. B.A. (Hons.) History. Lady Sri Ram College, University of Delhi
- 07/2021–Present, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
- 01/2016–06/2021, Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
- 04/2015–05/2016, Tagore Research Scholar, National Museum, New Delhi
- 07/2010–30/2013, Research Associate, Digital Archives (ECLAP) and Redevelopment Project, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 10/2005–09/2009, University Lecturer in South Asian History (Unestablished post), Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
- 10/1997–09/2005, Research Associate, Photograph Collections, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 08/1995–04/1996, Curatorial and Exhibition Assistant, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 09/1994–07/1995, Curatorial Assistant, Indian and Southeast Asian Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 02/1993–06/1994, Assistant Staff, Conservation of Roman Bronzes, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 01/1992–07/1992, Guest Lecturer, Department of History, Lady Sri Ram College, University of Delhi
- 01/1990–04/1990, Assistant Arts Officer, British Council Division, New Delhi
- 2015–2017, Tagore Scholar, National Museum
- 2005, British Academy, Small Research Grant
- 1999, Evans Fellowship Committee Grant, Cambridge
- 1994, India Travel Award, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the V&A Museum, London
- 1990–1991, Commonwealth Visiting Scholar, Dept of Archaeology, Cambridge
- 1985–1989, Junior Research Fellow, University Grants Commission, India
Books
- Guha, S. 2022. A History of India Through 75 Objects. Hachette India, New Delhi.
- Guha, S. 2015. Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts. Sage Publications, London/Thousand Oaks CA/New Delhi.
- Guha, S. 2010 (Ed.). The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology. Mapin Publications and Alkazi Collection of Photography, Ahmedabad/New Delhi.
Forthcoming
Guha, S. (Ed.) 2024. Histories in the Making: Photographing Indian Monuments, 1855–1920. DAG Publications, New Delhi.
- Guha, S. (2023). Imagination and Presence: Human Animal Relations and the Arts of Precolonial Deccan. In A. Parasher-Sen (Ed.) Conversations with the Animate ‘Other’: Historical Representations of Human and non-Human interactions in India. Bloomsbury Academic, New Delhi.
- Guha, S. (2023). Social Formation: Archaeological Scholarship of the Indus Civilization. In G.N. Devy, T. Joseph and R. Korisettar (Eds.) The Indians: Histories of a Civilization, Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, pp. 94–8.
- Guha, S. (2022). A Status Report of the Tribal Arts within the Central Tribal Belt. In M. Shah and P.S. Vijay Shankar (Eds.) Tribal Development Report: Human Development and Governance, Routledge, London/New Delhi, pp. 275–338.
- Guha, S. (2021). Decolonizing South Asia through Heritage and Nation Building FutureAnterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory and Criticism Vol. 16 (2), pp. 31-46.
- Guha, S. (2019). Curating ‘Cultures’: Collections, Practices and their Histories. The Idea of Culture, The Seagull Foundation for the Arts [Conference Proceedings].
- Guha, S. (2017). ‘Nineveh’ in Bombay and Histories of Indian Archaeology. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), Vol. 62 (1), pp. 65–85.
Forthcoming:
- Guha, S. (2024) Technologies and Epistemologies in the Early Photography of India's Monuments. In S. Guha (Ed.) Histories in the Making: Photographing Indian Monuments, 1855–1920. DAG Publications.
- Guha, S. (2024). Craft and Its Representation Thinking Through the Pre-Colonial Histories of Craft Practices in India. In T. Kachru and R. Reubens (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Craft and Sustainability in India. Routledge.
- Guha, S. Heritage and the Curation of the Archaeological Scholarship of India. In V. Selvakumar, S.K. Aruni and S. Hemanth (Eds.) South Asian archaeology: From the Palaeolithic to the Present: Essays in Honor of Professor K. Paddayya. Aryan, New-Delhi.
- Guha, S. (2019). Indian Economic and Social History Review, No. 56 (1), pp. 107—9. Review of Priya Maholay-Jaradi, Fashioning a National Art: Baroda’s Royal Collection and Art Institutions: 1875-1924 (2016)
- Guha, S. (2017). Studies in History, Vol. 33 (2), pp. 275–9. Review of S. Ratnagar, Harappan Archaeology: Early State Perspectives (2016).
- Guha, S. (2017). The Necklace that Divided Two Nations. BBC Documentary, The Museum of Lost Objects, episode 5, July 15.
- Guha, S. (2015). Light of the Solar Race: Rajendra Chola. The Week, December 27.
- Guha, S. (2015). Nineveh in Bombay: When the Splendours of Ancient Assyria Enraptured the City. Scroll.in. December 13.