Name: Shaheen Kelachan Thodika
Email: shaheen@iisermohali.ac.in
Research Focus: I am currently working on a research project on the afterlives of Anglo-Mysore conflicts in the Malayalam region. My research covers a vast time span from the early British Malabar to the present. This study also attempts to address the relations between history and memory in India’s southwestern coast with particular reference to Mysore- Malabar and Mysore –Travancore relations. My focus on the south Indian Kingdoms of the eighteenth century discusses the transmission of ideas in the eighteenth century from both the European and Ottoman worlds into South Asian polity and society. I also focus on the underexplored connections between historical and literary texts in Persian and Malayalam.
Education:
2014-2019:
PhD in Modern History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Title of PhD Thesis:
The Afterlife of Tipu Sultan’s ‘Khudadadi Sarkar’ in Malabar: 1792 to the Present
2012 – 2014:
Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, (CSSSC), Kolkata
Affiliated to: Jadavpur University
MPhil in Social Sciences
Final dissertation: The Domain of Orthodoxy: Sufi and Shari Traditions in Colonial Malabar
2010 – 2012:
Department of History, University of Delhi, New Delhi
MA in History
2007 – 2010:
Ramjas College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
BA (Honours) in History
Selected Publications:
“Three Sufi Texts and Two languages: Mawlid and Mala in the Mappila Multilingual World.” In ‘Multilingualism and the Literary cultures of India’ M. T Ansari (ed.), Sahitya Academy, 2019
“Ship Symbolism in the ‘Arabic Cosmopolis’: Reading Kunjayin Muliyar’s Kappapattu in 18th century Malabar’’ in ‘World History Bulletin’, special issue ‘Ocean and World History’, 2016 Fall