Ranjana Sheel

Professor
History, Faculty of Social Sciences
Residence - 76-77, Nand Nagar, P.O. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U. P.
Phone(Res). 0542-2575978
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Email: [email protected]

S. No. Degree Institution Year
1. P.G. University of Delhi 1976
2. Ph.D JNU, New Delhi 1994



A. Teaching Experience: 08 Years

B. Area of Specialization: Gender Studies, History of East Asia and Modern Indian History

C. Number of Ph. D. Supervised: 02

D. Number of Publications:

Book-01

Articles: 15

E. Major publications(Maximum five publications in details):

Articles in edited Books:

1. Institutionalisation & Expansion of Dowry system in Colonial North India, Economic & Political Weekly Vol. 32, No. 28, 1997

2. Political Economy of Dowry: Institutionalisation and Expansion in North India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1999.

3. Marriage, Money and Gender: A Case Study of the Migrant Indian Community in Canada" pp. 215-234, in Marriage, Migration and Gender Eds. Rajni Palriwala & Patricia Uberoi, Sage Publications, 2008

4. "Women in Politics in Japan," Economic & Political Weekly XXXVIII No. 39, 2003

5. "Culture, Identity and Gender: Marriage, Migration and Marriage Payments," International Journal of Business, Management and Social Sciences, Pune, Vol. II, 2013

F. Research project: 04

G. Courses /Symposia /Seminars attended : 30

H. Courses and Papers Taught:

History M. A.: Sem III: Society, Culture and Intellectual Development in Colonial India

History M. A.: Sem III: Intellectual History of China & Japan

History M. A. Sem IV: Women in Indian History

History B.A. Sem IV (Ancillary): Socio-Religious Reform Movement of Nineteenth & Twentieth Century

History B.A. Sem V: History of China 1839-1969

History B.A. Sem VI: History of Japan 1850-1952

I. Administrative responsibilities held: Member, University Complaints Committee; UG & PG Admission Committee

J. Honors and Awards:

Japan Foundation Programme for Researchers (Japan Foundation Language Institute, Osaka) 1999-2000

Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) 2002

Japan Foundation Senior Fellow (Institute of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) 2005-06

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2013

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