Prabodhan Pol

Assistant Professor

Manipal Centre for Humanities

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject Semester / Year
Historical Figures and Ideas BA II Sem
Writing the Past MA II Sem
Empire and Nation in India BA V Sem
Politics of Identity MA I Sem
Introduction to Premodern History BA III Sem
Thinking History in Premodern India BA III Sem
Indian History and Historiography BA III Sem
Understanding Precolonial India MA III Sem

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Specialisation Institute Year of passing
PhD Modern Indian History Jawaharlal Nehru University 2016
M.Phil Modern Indian History Jawaharlal Nehru University 2008
MA Modern Indian History Jawaharlal Nehru University 2006

Experience

Institution / Organisation Designation Role Tenure
Ramjas College, University of Delhi Assistant Professor Teaching August 2016 – June 2018
Max Weber Foundation, Germany Post Doctoral Research Fellow Research 2016
Miranda House College, University of Delhi Assistant Professor Teaching July 2009-November 2009

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

History of Modern India, Caste and Community in Modern India, Modern Maharashtra, Journalism in colonial India, colonial public sphere, Dalit and anti-caste movements, Ambedkar and Dalit Studies

Seeking Political Alternative: Perspectives on Peasants Activism in Ambedkar’s Newspaper Janata

29 October, 2022. Prabodhan Pol

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue No. 44-45 https://www.epw.in/engage/article/seeking-political-alternative-perspectives.

Cinematic Representation in Marathi Cinema

November 2022 Prabodhan Pol

Seminar, Vol. 759 https://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html.

Nationalist Rhetoric and Politics of Panic: The Political Aftermath of Plague Epidemic of 1896 in Western India

30 April 2022 Prabodhan Pol

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue No. 18. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/18/insight/nationalist-rhetoric-and-politics-panic.html

Review of Satyendra More’s "The Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More”

2021 Prabodhan Pol Sumeet Mhaskar

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7111.

Students Protest in India, 1918-2018

2019 Prabodhan Pol Sumeet Mhaskar

Barbara Potthast and Katharina Schemes, Student Protest in Global South, Annotated Source (1918-2018), University of Cologne, Germany: Global South Studies Centre

Social and Educational Organization of Babasaheb Ambedkar

2018

Textbook Chapter: Quest for Social Change and Alternative Movement, New Delhi: IGNOU,

Dr. Ambedkar and the journalistic writings of Dalit movement, 1920-1956

2018

Samaj Prabodhan Patrika Journal (Marathi), vol. 57, no 222

Dr.Ambedkar’s Colleague, Naval Bhathena

2018

Parivartanacha Vatsaru Journal (Marathi), Issue 24, 16-30, pp. 30-35, 41.