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SyedNajafHaider
ProfessorofMedievalHistory
CentreforHistoricalStudies
JawaharlalNehruUniversity
NewDelhi110067
Office:
319,SchoolofSocialSciences3
Ph.91‐11‐26704567
Education:
D.Phil.,UniversityofOxford,1997
Research Interests: History of money, banking, credit and internationalexchange, history of book production and circulation, history of secretarialclasses,historyofDelhi
Profile
Employment
Professor,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,2010‐
AssociateProfessor,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,2004‐2010
LecturerofMedievalAsianHistory,UniversityofDelhi,1998‐2004
Fellowships,GrantsandHonours
• RecipientofaUniversitywithPotentialforExcellence(UPEII)grantforthe
project entitled “Memoirs, History and Visual Representation ‐ a study of
texts and images from European Archives” (with Dhir Sarangi and Kavita
Singh)
• Visiting Professor, Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies,
UniversityofVienna,2016
• ErasmusMundusFellow,UniversityofVienna,2014
• SamirShammaFellow,StCrossCollege,UniversityofOxford,2013
• VisitingFellow,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies(SOAS),London,2008
• HERMESPostdoctoralFellow,Maisondessciencesdel’homme,Paris,2007
• Indo‐French Exchange Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research and
Maisondessciencesdel’homme,Paris,2006
• VisitingFellow,IndianInstituteofAdvancedStudy,Shimla,2005
• Proxime accessit, Frere Exhibition for Indian Studies, University of Oxford,
1994
• Overseas Research Student Award, Committee of Vice‐Chancellors and
Principals,U.K.,1992‐93
• INLAKSFellow,UniversityofOxford,1990‐93
MembershipofCommitteesandBoards
Member,EditorialBoard,StudiesinHistory,SagePublications2008‐2013
Member,HeritageCommittee,NationalLibrary,Kolkata2009‐11
Member, Selection Committee, Son et Lumiere, Purana Qila, ITDC,
GovernmentofIndia2010
Member, Standing Committee and Advisory Committee, Programme for
Studies on Discrimination and Exclusion, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2005‐6
Member, Gender Sensitization Committee Against Sexual Harassment
(GSCASH),JawaharlalNehruUniversity2005‐6
Member, Organising Committee, International Colloquium of the Vice‐
chancellors of South Asian Universities on ‘Challenges and Prospects of
Higher Education in the Context of Globalisation’, Jawaharlal Nehru
University2005
Publications
ChaptersinBooks
1. ‘Fractional and Non‐Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200‐1800)’,
Small Currencies Matter: Trade and Transactions in Early Modern East
AsianEconomies,eds.JaneKateLeonardandUlrichTheobald(Brill,2015)
2. ‘Language, Caste and the Secretarial Class in Mughal India’, The
DevelopmentofaNation.Essays inMemoryofR. S. Sharma, ed.D.N. Jha
(Manohar,2014)
3. ‘Ancient India in Persian Histories’, Different Dimensions of History
Writing,ed.P.K.Shukla(GranthaShilpi,2012.InHindi)
4. ‘CoinageandtheSilverCrisis’inEconomicHistoryofMedievalIndia(1200
1500),ed.IrfanHabib,(Pearson,2011)
5. ‘Foreign Trade of India’ in Economic History of Medieval India (1200
1500),ed.IrfanHabib,(Pearson,2011)
6. ‘Minting Technology in Mughal India’, Felicitas. Essays in Numismatics,
Epigraphy&HistoryinHonourofJoeCribb,eds.ShailendraBhandareand
SanjayGarg(Mumbai,2011)
7. ‘Once More Unto the Breach. Money Matters in the Writings of Irfan
Habib’, Excursus in History. Essays on Some Ideas of Irfan Habib, ed.
PrabhatPatnaik(Tulika,2011)
8. ‘TranslatingTextsandStraddlingWorlds.InterculturalCommunicationin
MughalIndia’,TheVariedFacetsofHistory.EssaysinHonourofAniruddha
Ray,eds.IshratAlamandSyedEjazHussain(Primus,Delhi,2011)
9. ‘Standardization and Empire: A Study of the Exchange Rates ofMughal
Currencies’,MindoverMatter.EssaysonMentalitiesinMedievalIndia,eds.
EugeniaVaninaandD.N.Jha(Tulika,2009)
10. ‘JusticeandPoliticalAuthorityinMedievalIndianIslam’,Justice:Political,
Social,Juridical,eds.RajeevBhargava,MichaelDuscheandHelmutReifeld
(Sage,2008).
11. ‘Structure and Movement of Wages in the Mughal Empire’,Wages and
Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons, ed. Jan Lucassen
(Amsterdam,2008).
12. ‘The Network ofMonetary Exchange in the Indian Ocean Trade: 1200‐
1700’,CrossCurrentsandCommunityNetworks:TheHistoryoftheIndian
Ocean World, ed. Himanshu Prabha Ray and Edward Alpers (Oxford
UniversityPress,2007).
13. ‘Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal Court’ in Themes in Indian History,
Class XII Text Book, National Council for Education, Research and
Training(2007)
14. ‘TheMonarchandtheMillennium:ANewInterpretationoftheAlfCoins
ofAkbar’,CoinsinIndia:PowerandCommunication,ed.HimanshuPrabha
Ray(MARG,2006).
15. ‘TheCentralIslamicLands600‐1200’inThemesinWorldHistory,ClassXI
TextBook,NationalCouncilforEducation,ResearchandTraining(2006).
16. ‘A Holi Riot of 1714: Versions from Ahmadabad and Delhi’, Living
Together Separately: Cultural India inHistory and Politics, eds.Mushirul
HasanandAsimRoy(OxfordUniversityPress,2005).
17. ‘The Monetary Integration of India under the Mughal Empire’, India
StudiesintheHistoryofanIdea,ed.IrfanHabib(MunshiramManoharlal,
2005)
18. ‘BusinessPractices andMonetaryHistory’,Economic Structures in India,
(IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,2005)
19. ‘Mughals andMahmudis:The IncorporationofGujarat into the Imperial
Monetary System’,Negotiating India’s Past. Essays in Memory of Partha
SarathiGupta(Tulika,2003)
20. ‘Global Networks of Exchange, the India Trade and the Mercantile
EconomyofSafavidIran’,IndiaandIran,ed.IrfanHabib(Tulika,2002)
21. ‘The Monetary Basis of Credit and Banking Instruments in the Mughal
Empire’,Money and Credit in Indian History, ed. Amiya Bagchi (Tulika,
2002)
22. ‘TheDisappearanceofCoinProductionin1580s:ANoteontheAlfCoins
ofAkbar’,AkbarandHis India, ed. IrfanHabib (OxfordUniversityPress,
1997).
ResearchPapersinJournalsandOnlinePublication
1. ‘MoneyandSocialInequality:TheViewsofAbu’lFazl’,StudiesinPeoples
History,vol.3(Sage,2016)
2. ‘TheCompositionandCirculationofMughalChronicles’,IndianHorizons,
(ICCR,2015)
3. ‘ALostCityofDelhithroughPersianHistories’,StudiesinPeoplesHistory,
vol.2(Sage,2014)
4. Edited with Introduction (with Christine Chojnacki) Special Issue of
Studies in History on ‘The Dynamics of Religious Pluralism Conflicts,
AssimilationandInnovationinPre‐modernIndia’(Sage,2011)
5. ‘Norms of Professional Excellence and Good Conduct in Accountancy
ManualsoftheMughalEmpire’,InternationalReviewofSocialHistory(vol.
56,SpecialIssue,2011)
6. ‘BookProductionandPreservationinMughalIndia’,JournaloftheAsiatic
Society(vol.52,no.1,2010)
7. ‘PricesandWages inIndia:1200‐1700. SourceMaterial,Historiography
andNewDirections’, InternationalConferenceon “HistoricalWagesand
Prices”,Utrecht,19‐22August,2004(www.iisg.nl/hpw/conference.html)
8. ‘The Quantity Theory and Mughal Monetary History’,Medieval History
Journal,vol.2,no.2(1999)
9. ‘International Trade in Precious Metals and Monetary Systems of
MedievalIndia’,ProceedingsoftheIndianHistoryCongress(Patiala,1998)
10. ‘PreciousMetal Flows and Currency circulation in theMughal Empire’,
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Special Issue
‘MoneyintheOrient’(Brill,Leiden,June1996)
11. ‘The Coinage of the Lodi Empire: Some Questions’, Proceedings of the
IndianHistoryCongress(Gorakhpur),1989.
12. ‘EnglishMerchants and the CreditMarket of India in the 17th Century’,
ProceedingsoftheIndianHistoryCongress(Goa,1988)
BookReviews
1. Review of Margrit Pernau and Yunus Jaffery ed., Information and the
Public Sphere. Persian Newsletters from Mughal Delhi (OUP, 2009) in
ContemporaryPerspectives.HistoryandSociologyofSouthAsia(vol.3,no.
2,July‐December2009).
2. Review of ShireenMoosvi, People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal India
(OUP,2008)inTheHindu(2009)
3. ReviewofRaziuddinAquil,Sufism,Culture,andPolitics.AfghansandIslam
inMedievalNorth India (OUP 2007) inMedievalHistory Journal, 11 (2),
2008.
4. ReviewofEugeniaVanina, IdeasandSociety Indiabetween theSixteenth
andEighteenthCenturies,2ed.OUP,Delhi,2004 inTheMedievalHistory
Journal,vol.8,no.2(2005).
5. ReviewofGhulamYahya,CraftingTraditions,textandtranslationbyMehr
AfshanFarooqi,inSummerhill,IIASReview,2006
PapersPresentedinNational/InternationalConferences/Workshops
1. ‘Money, Monuments and the Majesty of the Mughal Empire’,
InternationalConferenceon “Afkar‐e‐Taza:Rescuing thePast, Shaping
the Future”, Department of Humanities, Information Technology
UniversityofthePunjab,Lahore,3April2016
2. ‘MoneyandInequality inIndo‐IslamicIntellectualTraditions’, Institute
forSouthAsian,TibetanandBuddhistStudies,UniversityofVienna,16
March2016
3. ‘BookCollectionandCirculationinMughalIndia’,WorkshoponMaking
OfMuseumCollections,WithSpecialReferenceToGandharaorganizedby
Ludwig‐ Maximillian University, Munich, India International Centre &
National Museum Institute, New Delhi, 16‐17 April 2015, India
InternationalCentre,NewDelhi
4. ‘FlyLeaf Inscriptionsand theHistoryof theMughalBook’, Instituteof
PersianResearch,AligarhMuslimUniversity,Aligarh,11March2015
5. ‘YourMoneyorYourLife:AnEpisodeofThagiinaBrajAutobiography’,
Literary Cultures & History in South Asia, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi,12March2015
6. ‘Customary Law in Mughal India’, Workshop on Law Addressing
Diversity: PreModern Europe and India in Comparison, University of
Vienna,May2014
7. ‘TheCharBaharofBalkrishanBrahman:ANewSourcefortheHistory
of People and Places During Shahjahan’s Reign’, Workshop on The
Mughal EmpireUnder Shah JahanNewTrends of Research, Institute of
IranianStudiesandAustrianAcademyofSciences,Vienna,May2014
8. ‘LawandtheMughalState’,StateinMedievalIndia,CentreofAdvanced
StudyinHistory,AligarhMuslimUniversity,Aligarh,March2014
9. ‘PersianRecordsofTheGreatFamineofGujaratandtheDeccan(1630‐
32)’, Botanical and meteorological history of the Indian Ocean, 1500
1900, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex,
JawaharlalNehruUniversity,Delhi,30August,2013
10. ‘AHistoryofIdeasinMedievalIndia’,Keynoteaddress,SeminaronThe
History of Ideas in Precolonial Bihar, Organized by K. P. Jaiswal
ResearchInstitute,Patna,Rajgir,16March2013
11. ‘TheWork of the Secretarial Class inMughal India’, IXth International
ConferenceonLabourHistory,AssociationofIndianLabourHistorians,
V.V.GiriNationalLabourInstitute,NOIDA22‐24March2012
12. ‘TheMonetaryEconomyof India intheEighteenthCentury’,Revisiting
the Eighteenth Century in Indian History, Department of History and
Culture,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,21‐22March2012
13. ‘Prices and Wages in Northern India: 1303‐1526 AD)’, Hi‐Pod
Conference, India and the Great Divergence’, Neemrana, 19‐20
September,2011
14. ‘South Asian Economy During 16th‐18th Centuries and the Great
DivergenceDebate’,AsianHistoricalEconomicsConference,Beijing19‐
21May2010
15. ‘MoneyasaFactorofChangeintheEconomyofMedievalIndia’,Aligarh
Historians’SocietyPanelonEconomicChangeinHistory,IndianHistory
Congress,Delhi,16‐17May2010
16. ‘Erasing the Mosque’, Workshop on Beyond the Ayodhya Judgment,
CentreforHistoricalStudies,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,2010
17. ‘NotesonaMughalDocumentfromSanghol’,WorkshoponHistoryand
ArcheologyofSanghol,IndiaInternationalCentre,2010
18. ‘Indo‐IslamicTraditionsofWorkandProfessionalExcellence:Astudyof
Dastur ul Amal andAkhlaq Literatures’, FifthWorkshop of the Global
CollaboratoryontheHistoryofLabourRelations,GerdaHenkelStiftung,
Düsseldorf,Germany,November2009
19. ‘Money and Wealth in Medieval Indian Islam: Meaning and Practice’,
Workshopon ‘MoneyandWealth inIndianHistory’,SchoolofOriental
andAfricanStudies(SOAS),London,9‐10October2009
20. ‘Conversation through the Night: Emperor Jahangir’s Dialogue with
MuslimandChristian Scholars’, India International Centre,NewDelhi,
30October2009
21. ‘Justice, Mughal Imperial Ideology and the Creative Imagination’,
Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema, 20 March 2009, New York
UniversityInstitute,AbuDhabi
22. ‘The Historiography of Money inMedieval India: 1200‐1800’,Writing
IndianEconomicHistory:TrendsandProspects,JamiaMilliaIslamia,New
Delhi,27‐28February2009
23. ‘Muslim Christian Polemics inMughal India: Evidence from Jahangir’s
NightSessions(majalisishabana)’,TheDynamicsofReligiousPluralism
inIndia:Conflict,InnovationandAssimilation,JawaharlalNehruInstitute
ofAdvancedStudy,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,19February,2009
24. ‘AlterityandEthnography:ImagesofAssaminthePersianLiteratureof
Mughal India’, Writing the NorthEast. New Perspectives, Centre for
HistoricalStudies,JNU,14January2009
25. ‘ThetreatmentofIndia’sAncientPastinthePersianHistoriesofMughal
India’, Aligarh Historians Society’s Panel on The History of History
Writing,IndianHistoryCongress,Kunnur,29‐30December2008
26. ‘ImperialandNon‐ImperialCurrenciesofMughal India’,Workshopon
‘MultipleMoniesinAsiaandAfrica’,InstituteofOrientalCulture,Tokyo,
30June‐1July2008
27. ‘PersianManuscriptsasBooks inMedieval India’,PersianLiterature in
MultilingualIndia:Genres,contexts,styles,Cambridge,16‐18June2008
28. ‘AccountancyandRecordKeeping intheMughalEmpire’,OxfordEarly
Modern SouthAsiaWorkshoponMunshis, pandits and recordkeepers:
thepoliticsofknowledgeinIndia,C16thearlyC19th,13‐14June2008
29. ‘Cities in Medieval India: Historiography, Problems and Prospects’,
International SeminaronCities inMedieval India, Centre forHistorical
Studies,JNU,6‐7March,2008
30. ‘MoneyandAccumulationinIndianIslam:TwoViewsfromFourteenth
CenturyDelhi’,ÉcolePratiquedesHautesÉtudesSciencesHistoriqueet
Philologiques,Sorbonne,Paris,11June,2007
(http://myindias.blogspot.com/2007/06/confrence‐par‐najaf‐haidar‐
lundi‐11.html)
31. ‘BetweenTwoWorlds:PersianTranslationsofAtharveda,Mahabharata
and the Bible inMughal India’, Journée d’étude on IndeMedievale et
Moderne: Textes et Contextes, Littérature indopersane (XIeXVIIe
siècles): questions de traduction [Translation Related Issues in Indo
Persian Literature (11th17th Centuries)], EPHE (SHP), à la Sorbonne,
Paris,22June,2007
32. ‘Faith and Reason in Medieval India’, Reason and Tolerance in Indian
History,SeminartoCommemorateAkbar’sCentenary,IndianCouncilof
Historical Research and Aligarh Historian Society, New Delhi, 28‐30
October2006
33. ‘Reason and Religion in Abul Fazl’s Economic Thought’,Workshop on
ReasonandReligioninAkbar’sIndia,DepartmentofHistory,University
ofMumbaiandIndianCouncilofHistoricalResearch,14‐16September,
2006
34. ‘Currency Depreciation and Monetary Policy of the Mughal State’,
InternationalEconomicHistoryCongress,Session106,Helsinki,21‐25,
August2006
35. ‘Monetary Circulation and Mercantile Credit in Medieval India: 1200‐
1700AD’,InternationalEconomicHistoryCongress,Session2,Helsinki,
21‐25August2006
36. ‘Customary Law as an Institution of Civil Society in Mughal India’,
WorkshoponCivilSocietyHistoricalandComparativePerspectives,Max
MuellerBhavan,Delhi,9‐11March,2006
37. ‘TheCulturalLegacyofAlexanderinMedievalIslamandIndia’,Memory
asHistory:TheLegacyofAlexanderinAsia,CentralforHistoricalStudies,
JNUandNehruMemorialMuseumandLibrary,27February‐1March,
2006
38. ‘Philosophy and Realism in Abul Fazl’s Monetary Thought’, National
SeminaronArt,LiteratureandSecularThoughtinMedievalIndia,Centre
of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, 5‐7 April,
2005
39. ‘TheHistoriographyofMoneyandTradeinMedievalIndiaandCentral
Asia’,NationalSeminaronMedievalHistoriographyinIndiaandCentral
Asia, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library and Indian Council of
HistoricalResearch,NewDelhi,29‐30March,2005
40. InternationalTrade’,‘CurrencyandCredit’and‘MovementofPricesand
PriceRevolution’,Workshop‐Seminar onEconomicHistory ofMedieval
India, Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture
(PIHSPC),Aligarh,2004.
CoursesDesignedandTaught
EconomicHistoryofIndia10001600AD
StateandSocietyintheCentralIslamicLands:c.600AD–1258AD
StateinMedievalIndia:PowerandLegitimacy
PersianDocumentsofMughalIndia,SeminarCourse
FestivitiesandCulture
PersianandHindwiLiteraryCultures
ScriptAdvisorandConsultant
‘SecretsoftheTaj’,NationalGeographicChannel(Grupp3Franco‐German
film)
‘Ishq eDilli’,Son et Lumiere, Old Fort,NewDelhi (ITDC,Government of
India)
‘TajMahal’,SuperstrucuresSeries(BBC/Discoverychannel)
‘FortsofIndia’,Doordarshan
Episodes,EpicChannel