Associate Professor of History
Email: Sanjay.Joshi@nau.edu
Website: jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/
Office phone (928) 523-6216
Office LA 206
Research Areas:
My main areas of interest are in social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern South Asia with a focus on the middle class in colonial India. My first book Fractured Modernity focused on the role of public-sphere institutions in the making of a middle class in colonial India. Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2001, the book was reissued in hardcover in 2002, and then as a paperback in 2005. I am currently editing a volume on the middle class for Oxford University Press’ Themes in Indian History series, which I hope to complete before the middle of 2006. In 2003-04 I began researching my next major project, this time focusing on the family as the site of middle class formation in modern India. For this research, I have turned to Kumaon, the small region in the hills of north India. Using a variety of traditional archival data as well as family papers, genealogies, photographs and oral narratives, I hope to produce a second monograph in the not too distant future!
Teaching Areas:
Other than courses on modern Asian history and histories of India, my teaching interests include studies of comparative colonialism and nationalism, the place of religion in the modern world, postcolonial theory and the writing of history, and other themes relating to modernity and its “others.”
Recent Academic Awards:
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship. Department of Education,
2004.
Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago.
(Awarded NEH funds for “superior scholars/Indologists in the
humanities”), 2003.
Senior Short-term Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies,
Chicago, 2000. Organized Research Grant, Northern Arizona University.
2006, 2000, 1999 and 1997.
Sample of Recent and forthcoming Publications:
Fractured Modernity: The Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North
India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Second hardback impression,
2002, paperback edition, 2005.
“Re-Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion and the Middle Class.” In
Derek Peterson and Darren Walhof eds. The Invention of Religion: Rethinking
Belief and Politics in History. Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. 79-99.
“Colonial Notions of South Asia” South Asian Journal, 1, (August
September 2003), pp. 6-9.
“Virtually There: Cricket, Community, and Commerce on the Internet.” Forthcoming
(Spring 2007) in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
“Contradictions in the Making of a Middle Class in Lucknow” in
Veena Talwar Oldenburg ed. Lucknow: An Anthology Delhi: Penguin (India), forthcoming.
“Indian Independence Movement” in Encyclopedia of Modern Revolutions,
ABC-CLIO, 2006.
"Many Faces of a Fanatic" (original title, "Many Fundamentalisms")
in Hindustan Times.
Sample of Book Reviews
Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947, Sumit Ganguly.
The Historian, 67, 02 (2005), pp. 341-42.
Subaltern Studies Vol. XI : Community, Gender, and Violence, edited
Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan.” Journal of Asian Studies,
62, 4 (November 2003), pp. 1273-74.
Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial
Punjab, Anshu Malhotra. H-Asia, (September 2003).
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, Nicholas
B. Dirks. American Historical Review, 108, 1 (February 2003), p. 180.
Sample of Conference Papers:
Beyond A Hyper-Real Europe? The Issue of Comparisons in Studying the
Middle Class of Colonial India. Paper presented at the Nineteenth European
Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands,
June 27-30, 2006.
Thinking About Modernity From the Margins: The Making of a Middle Class
in Colonial India.
Invited presentation at: “‘We Shall Be All’ Toward
a Global History of the Middle Class.” International Conference
on the Middle Class, at the University of Maryland, College Park, April
27-29, 2006.
Archives in the Dwelling: Thinking About Middle Class Domesticity in
Colonial India – Kumaon, 1815-1931. Paper presented to the faculty
and student body at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, December
2004.
Rethinking the Middle Class: Antinomy and Anxiety in Middle-Class Domesticity
in Early Twentieth Century North India. Paper presented at the American
Historical Association meeting, Washington DC, January 2004.
Benighted Folk, Modern Families: Nayak Reform and Middle Class Domesticity,
1850-1931. Paper presented at the Association of Asian Studies meeting,
New York, March 2003.
Common Pasts, Contesting Histories, and Divergent Geographies: A Comparison
of History and Social Science Textbooks from India and Pakistan. Paper
presented at the American Historical Association meeting, Chicago,
January 2003.
Historicizing the Archive: Making of the Native Newspaper Reports in
Colonial India. Paper presented at the Western Conference of the Association
for Asian Studies, Provo, Utah, September 2002.
Courses Taught at Northern Arizona University:
Readings in Colonialism and Nationalism (Graduate Seminar)
Subaltern Subjects and Postcolonial Histories (Graduate Seminar)
Religion Politics and Power in the Modern World (Graduate/undergraduate
seminar)
Film and Partition (Capstone Seminar)
Pre-Modern India
The Making of Modern Asia
Gandhi's India
Contemporary India
History of South Asia Through Film
Historians and the Study of History.
Recent Professional and Public Service:
Manuscript Review, Journal of Asian Studies, Cultural Anthropology.
Editorial Advisory Board, Ethnic Studies, Ithaca, NY
American Institute of Indian Studies, Selection Committee.
American Institute of Indian Studies, Executive Committee.
Trustee, American Institute of Indian Studies.
Screening Committee, Fulbright Lecturer Awards, New Delhi, 2003.
Panelist on Odyssey: A Daily Talk Show of Ideas. WBEZ Chicago (an NPR
station), on “Culture and Middle Class.” December 2002.
Two public lectures presented at Northern Arizona University in the
aftermath of September 11th 2001: “Where To Now” and “Many
Fundamentalisms.”