🎓 Akansha Singh is a PhD Student at the Department of History, Ashoka University (Haryana). She previously earned her M.A. in Medieval History from the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and her B.A. (Hons.) in History from the University of Delhi. Her research focuses on the political culture of Afghans in early modern South Asia, with particular interest in state-craft, religion, identity, warfare, and migration. Akansha works with Afghan and non-Afghan chronicles, genealogies, memoirs, and travelogues written primarily in Persian, Urdu, English, and Pashto. 

🎓 Akhil AR is a PhD Student at the  Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The research scholar is pursuing his Ph.D. in the subject of ‘Trade, Craft and Craftsmen in Southern Coromandel: 17th and 18th Centuries’ under the supervision of Prof. Joy .L. K. Pachuau. He had done his M.Phil in ‘Tracing the Blacksmiths of 19th Century Malabar: An Analysis of Interactions with Colonialism’ under the supervision of Dr. M.T. Narayanan from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala. Akhil holds a master degree in history from University of Hyderabad and he is an alumni of St.Stephen’s College, Delhi with B.A. in History and Economics. Akhil presented his research on the craftsman community of the Coromandel coast at the European Association for Urban History conference in Antwerp (2022). He also co-authored an article titled “Situating Pattanam in Early Historical Maritime Trade”, published in the Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology (2019-20).

🎓 Anas Zaman is a PhD scholar at the Department of History at Delhi University. He submitted his MPhil thesis titled "The Reign of Aurangzeb: Some Historiographical Considerations" from the same department. Anas completed his MA at the Centre For Historical Studies (CHS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, and earned his BA (Hons.) from Ramjas College. His research focuses on the political culture of the Mughal Empire in the latter half of the seventeenth century.

🎓 Ansil Kanjirathinkal Muhammed is a research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research examines medieval South Asian connections, focusing on Muslim literary culture and intellectual networks of Sufis, scholars, and poets. His research interests include the cultural history of the Deccan, using Persian, Arabic, and Urdu texts, and trans-imperial connections between the Deccan and Persianate worlds.

🎓 Arkadeb Bhattacharya is is pursuing his PhD from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His doctoral dissertation is looking into the politico-cultural history of rural landholding families in eighteenth century Bengal. His MPhil dissertation, completed previously from the same centre, examined the changes in literary cultural practices of early modern Bengal.

🎓Bharat Yadav is a PhD scholar enrolled in SOITS, IGNOU. His research studies the emergence of Dingal literary traditions in Western Rajasthan. He completed his master's from DU with a specialization in Medieval Indian History and has presented two papers on Charans of Rajasthan and the literary imagination in premodern South Asia. 

🎓 Bhavyansh Mathur is a PhD scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research thesis is titled- “Perceptions of Past: Rajasthani Historical Traditions c.1500-1850.” His areas of interest are medieval Rajasthan and Gujarat. He has presented papers at various national and international conferences including a couple at the University of Michigan (United States) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (United Kingdom). His research interests constitute pre-colonial literary traditions, historical traditions, sociolinguistics in pre-colonial and post-colonial contexts, and precolonial intellectual traditions. He also has hands-on experience handling manuscript preservation, translations, and digitization in various libraries and archives in Rajasthan.

🎓 Bidisha Sengupta is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the History Department at Ashoka University. She pursued her BA in History from Ramjas College, University of Delhi (2016) and MA in Medieval History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2018). The title of her PhD thesis is ‘Mughal Political Culture in Early Modern Bengal, 1574 - c.1700’. Her research focuses on the nature of Mughal polity and the role of cultural factors in the consolidation of early modern Bengal. It will study the imperial political culture in the region as a process and understand the extent of the cultural encounter between the Persianate Mughals and the local Bengali elites through various themes such as geo-political space, elite practices, art, architecture, and local alliance-building. She works with Persian, Bengali, and European sources. 

🎓 Deeplakshmi Saikia completed her M.A. in Medieval History at the Centre for Historical Studies and her M.Phil. in Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently, she is a final year Ph.D. scholar of Visual Studies. Her research interests broadly include art, religion and material culture in pre-modern Assam. Her Ph.D. dissertation is an ethnographic and art historical study of the illustrated neo-Vaishnavite manuscripts in the spaces of the monastic institutions called the satras in Assam. 

🎓 Dickson Mangsatabam is a fourth-year PhD scholar at the Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with interests in Medieval South Asian History, Precolonial and Colonial Manipur history, Identities and Marginalities in history, Women and Gender studies. The title of his PhD thesis is “The Pangals and Bamons in Eighteenth-Century Manipur: A History of Social Integration.” He also holds a B.A. (Hons.) in History from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, and an M.A. in Medieval History from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. 

🎓 Fathima Rajila KV completed her PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research focuses on “Food and Social Identities in Pre-modern Kerala (c.11th to 18th century C.E)”.

🎓Gayathri Devi S is pursuing a PhD in History at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. She has actively participated in conferences, presenting her work at esteemed platforms like Kerala History Congress, South Indian History Congress, Indian History Congress, Asian Association of World Historians International Conference, and the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia by the University of Wisconsin Madison. She earned a Master's in History from Hyderabad Central University in 2019, securing UGC-NET in History the same year. A Kerala native, she completed her schooling and undergraduate studies in the state. Her academic journey reflects a profound connection to her local roots while exploring broader historical narratives.

🎓Govardhan N is a research scholar in Medieval History at the Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.  His research focuses on the literary motifs, ideology and legitimacy of warfare and martial culture in Deccan and South India. His research interests include military history, normative culture and medieval Indian literature.

🎓Heena Goswami is a research scholar at Department of History, University of Delhi. Her academic research interests lie in study of religious and gender identities in politics, both past and present. She is currently studying early colonial intellectual culture of Awadh and shifts in patron-client relations.

🎓Kajri Raymahasay is a PhD Scholar at the Department of History, University of Delhi. Having completed her MPhil, titled “The Mangalkavyas: A Study of Vernacular Literary Production in Eighteenth-Century Bengal”, from the Department, she is  working on a larger corpus of middle Bengali narrative verse for her PhD. Her focus is on the study of the socio-cultural and economic past of early modern Bengal. She had obtained her Masters, specializing in medieval history, from the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, after graduating in History from Miranda House College.

🎓 Karil Soral is a fourth year Ph.D candidate at the Department of History, Ashoka University. His research interests lie in studying the Sanskrit narratives on wrestling compiled during the Early Modern period, especially in the regions of Western India. Before joining Ashoka University, Karil completed his BA, MA and M.Phil from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. He also holds an 'A' level certificate in Spanish from Instituto Cervantes and a Diploma in Sanskrit from the Centre for Languages, St. Stephen's College. He has presented papers at University of Delhi and the University of Tokyo. 

🎓 Mauzzama Fatima is a research scholar at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University. She has completed her masters degree in history from the same institution. Her research focuses on the regional history of the Rohilla and Bangash principalities in the eighteenth-century India. Specifically, her area of interest lies in the transitional period of India during this era. She has a strong inclination towards gender studies and is deeply committed to the empowerment of marginalized genders.

🎓 Nagwant Singh is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Delhi, where he has also completed his BA, MA, and MPhil. His doctoral research, titled “Some Aspects of Riti Literature in Eighteenth-Century North India,” explores Ritigranths-a genre of poetic manuals—as archives of intellectual and literary history. His work delves into themes such as the lives of poets, gender dynamics, and cultural practices in early modern North India, particularly in the "Hindi-Urdu Belt." His MPhil dissertation, "Sayyid Ghulam Nabi Raslin and His Works: A Historical Analysis of Gender and Culture in the Eighteenth Century," also engages with 18th-century literary texts. Nagwant has published a research paper based on his findings in the Social Scientist journal: Nagwant Singh, ‘Braj-Bhasha Poetry and Poets’ Networks in Late Mughal North India’, Social Scientist, 53: 5-6 (2024), pp. 43-64. He is set to submit his PhD thesis soon, having recently completed his pre-submission seminar.

🎓 Nandita Goswami is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, Ashoka University, India. Her thesis explores the articulation, legitimation, and performance of Tai-Ahom kingship in South Asia between the sixteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Her publications include ‘The Horse in the Early Modern Brahmaputra Valley’ in Ranabir Chakravarti and Pratyay Nath (eds), History of the Horse in South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). 

🎓 Nataliya Singh is a PhD Research Scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her research focuses on the late medieval and early modern histories of the Western Himalayan region. The broader themes of her research include state formation and legitimation, kingship and sovereignty and the representations of war, heroism and alterity, in the kingdoms of the Western Himalayas.

🎓 Nitika Sharma is a PhD scholar from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The title of her thesis is “The Natural World in the Mughal Empire: A Study of Human-Animal-Plant Relations in the 16th-17th centuries India”. She completed B.A. honors in history from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, Masters in History in 2018 and M.Phil in 2021 from JNU. Her research interests include medieval and early modern history of India, environmental history, socio-cultural history of India etc.

🎓 Paro Tomar is a PhD student at Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, New Delhi. She has been working on the changing nature of mobility, migration as well as changing borders in the Thar Desert in a long historical perspective, from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. Her work combines ideas of environment, mobility, spaces as well as politics in the changing idea of the Thar as a circulatory space to a frontier and finally, a borderland.

🎓PM Mohammed Jubair is a third-year PhD research scholar at the Department of History, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. His primary research focuses on the 18th and 19th-century political culture of the far south. He is interested in the idea of Persianisation beyond the Deccan, Early Colonial interaction with the Indo-Persian cultures. He completed B. A in history from Calicut University, an M.A in Medieval History from C.H.S, Jawaharlal Nehru University and an MPhil from the Department of History, S.S.U.S, Kalady, Kerala

🎓Priyanka Sarma is a third-year PhD research scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Prior to this, she was working on a thesis studying the court and its multiple representations in the Mahabharata for her M.Phil degree at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently, she is working on social and cultural history of literary practices in the Brahmaputra Valley between 15th to 18th century. 

🎓 Rasha Aljomaa is a PhD student at the Department of Translation Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her broad area of research is on Indo-Arab translational relations. Her focus is on English translations of Arabic texts written about India or the Indian subcontinent, like Al-Beruni's India and the travels of Ibn Battuta, which were first translated into English in the 19th century by Orientalist scholars. Her approach to these works and their respective translations is to study the discourse in which they were produced and how the reception of these texts changed over time.

🎓Ravi is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, specialising in socio-economic and religious history of the Braj region during the Mughal era. His research examines the interplay between state authority, temple institutions, and economic practices during the 16th and 17th centuries, investigating how these dynamics influenced the region's socio-economic landscape. He is presently engaged in a thesis entitled "State, Temple, and Economy: A Socio-Economic Study of the Braj Region in the 16th and 17th Centuries," which investigates the influence of religious institutions on regional wealth accumulation and governance during this pivotal era in early modern India.

🎓Saanika Patnaik is a PhD Candidate at Ashoka University. She is interested in studying urban landscapes and coastal societies within the broader exchanges of the early modern Indian Ocean world. Her research project lies at the crossroads of urban, spatial, and Indian Ocean history, focussing on the idea and practice of sovereignty on the south Konkan coast. She is also interested in looking at the formation of heritage through architecture and material remains in these coastal spaces. Saanika completed her Masters in Colonial and Global History from Leiden University. She is working with sources in English, Marathi, Persian and Dutch. 

🎓 Shakir Ul Hassan is a Ph.D. student (3rd-year) in the Department of History, University of Delhi. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis is “The Formation of Literary Traditions of Tārīḵẖ and Taẕkira in Kashmir c. 1600-1800”. His research historicises the formation of the tradition of Tārīḵẖ-i-Kashmir in early modern Kashmir by problematizing the strategies of translations of Rājataraṅgiṇīs adopted by the Mughal scholars and its adoption in the local contexts. He explores how the historical memories of Kashmir in the imperial contexts conditioned the rise and protocols of local Tārīḵẖ-writing in Kashmir. 

🎓 Shivendra Srivastava is an Assistant Professor at the Government Degree College Sugh-Bhatoli, dist. Kangra in Himachal Pradesh. He is also a Ph.D. Candidate at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The topic of his thesis is “Human-Nature Entanglement: A Study of the Ecological of Early Modern Awadh”, where he explores the ways of human interactions with the different elements of nature like landscape, water, fauna and soil(agriculture). His research interest revolves around the environmental history of the early modern Awadh region. He holds an MA  in Medieval History from CHS, JNU. 

🎓Sneh Kumar Jha is in the third year of PhD program at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The topic of his PhD thesis is “Representation of the Urban in the Literary Tradition of Tirhut and Rarh(1300-1600CE)’’. His research focuses on the literature produced at the court of Tirhut and Vaishanavite literature, including Chandimangal Kavya, composed in the region Of Rarh. His research interests include the topics of literary culture, ‘vernacular’ languages, multilingualism and regional history. He holds a specialization in Medieval History with an MA degree from CHS, JNU. 

🎓 Vandan Gor obtained B.A. (Hons.) History degree from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi and M.A. History degree from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. Currently, he is in the fourth year of Ph.D. program at the History Department of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He is pursuing his Ph.D. on the formation of the Swaminarayan Community in early 19th century Gujarat under the supervision of Prof. Vibhuti Parikh. His research interests include cultural history, intellectual history, and history of religious communities, languages and literature. 

🎓 Yari Nayam is a PhD scholar from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

🎓  Zirnuntluanga is a PhD scholar at the Department of History and Ethnography, Mizoram University.