Publications
Books
- ‘Speaking’ the Nation: The Oratorical Making of a Secular, Neo-liberal India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- The Catholic Church as an Education Provider in Puerto Rico 1948-1960, VDM Publishers, May, 2009. (ISBN-10: 3639151801).
Articles
- “’Matters of the Heart’: The Sentimental Indian Prime Minister on All India Radio”, in: Barbara Christophe, Christophe Kohl, Heike Liebau, and Achim Saupe (Eds.), Mediating Claims to Authenticity in Populist Discourses in the Post-Colony, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 (forthcoming).
- “Making the New Indian Citizen in times of the Jawan (Soldier) and the Kisan (Farmer)”, 1962-65, in: K. Bromber and J. Kreis (eds.) Special Issue, “Shaping the New Man in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Practices, Networks and Mobilization (1940s-1960s)”; Comparativ, 28, 5, 2018, pp. 97-120.
- “Von Kenntnis zur Anerkennung: Freundschaftsgesellschaften an der Schnittstelle politischer und kultureller Beziehungen zwischen Indien und der DDR, 1952-1972” (in print), in: Kleinschmidt, C. and Ziegler, D. (eds.), Deutsche Außenpolitik und Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges, Berlin: De Gruyter, June 2018, p. 211-230.
- “Revisiting Partition Seventy Years Later: Of Layered Echoes, Voices and Memories”, in: South Asia Chronicle, 8, Special Issue Introduction (with Maria Framke), 2018, p. 1-20.
- Bajpai, A. and Framke, M., Co-editor for Special Issue FOKUS on Partition, “Revisiting Partition Seventy Years Later: Of Layered Echoes, Voices and Memories”, in: South Asia Chronicle, 8, January 2018, p. 1-20. (contributors: Uditi Sen, Nonica Dutta, Pippa Verdee, Subhasri Ghosh, Christina Oesterheld and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhary).
- Bajpai, A., Heymann, J. and Suski, T., “Tracing India in German Archives: Entangled Pasts in the age of Digital Humanities” in: South Asia Chronicle, Berlin, 6, 2017.
- Translation of Sound Recording (Prisoner of WWI) from the Lautarchiv, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, The Swallowed Fish Bone, for Sourcebook for Cultural Exchange in the time of global conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerants in the First World War, available at: http://sourcebook.cegcproject.eu/items/show/166?query=personalbogen
- “‘Speaking’ the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India”, in: Buchardt, M., Middell, M., Wohlrahb Sahr, M. (eds.), Multiple Secularities Beyond the West: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 (ISBN: 978-1-61451-568-5), p 39-61.
- “Inaugural Workshop of the DFG-sponsored Research Project Modern India in German Archives”, 1706-1989, in: South Asia Chronicle: Berlin, 5, 2015.
- “Imagining a ‘Secular’ India: Roots, Offshoots and Future Trajectories of the Secularism Debate in India”, in: South Asia Chronicle, Berlin, 2, 2012.
- “Homi K. Bhabha”, in: Mathias Middell and Ulf Engel (eds.), Theoretiker der Globalisierung, Leipzig: Leipzig University Press, April, 2010. (ISBN-10: 3865834590).
Archival Reflexicon
- Co-Editor (with Dr. Heike Liebau) of MIDA Archival Reflexicon, open-access archival guide. (17 Contributions up to June, 2019), https://www.projekt-mida.de/rechercheportal/reflexicon/
- Bajpai, A., “Introducing the MIDA Archival Reflexicon: Objectives and New Avenues”, MIDA Archival Reflexicon, 2018, ISSN 2628-5029.
- Bajpai, A., Tracing, Cataloguing, Indexing: Reflections on the Joachim and Petra Heidrich papers in the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Archive”, MIDA Archival Reflexicon, 2018, ISSN 2628-5029.
Reviews
- Book Review, Mathur, Nayanika, Paper Tiger: Law Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1412853.
- Book Review, Duff, Andrew, Sikkim. Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom, Edinburgh: Birlinn 2015, in: Sehepunkte 16 (2016), Nr. 9, September 15, 2016.
- Book Review, Schneider, Nadja-Christina and Titzmann, Fritzi-Marie (eds.), Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalization India: Focus on and beyond the ‘Delhi Gang Rape’, Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015, in: Bulletin of the Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt University, Berlin, October 2015.
- Forschungsbericht, Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989, Inaugural Project Workshop, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 14.09.2015, available at: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6159?title=modern-india-in-german-archives-1706-1989-inaugural-project-workshop&recno=16&q=&sort=&fq=&total=5949
- Forschungsbericht, Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989, Inaugural Project Workshop, in: ZMO: Orient Bulletin, 28, 2015, 3-4.
- Book Review, Vora, N., Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora, Duke University Press, 2013 (in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2014.
- Book Review, Hilger, A.; Unger, C.R. (eds.): India in the World since1947. National and Transnational Perspectives, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012; in: H-Soz-u-Kult 31.01.2014, available at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2014-1-077
- Book Review, Harshan Kumarasingham, A Political Legacy of the British Empire: Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-Colonial India and Sri Lanka, I.B. Tauris, London, 2013, in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 36:2, 314-316, 2013.
- Book Review, Sharma, S.D., China and India in the Age of Globalization, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009, in: Political Studies Review, Vol. 9, Issue 3, September 2011.
CONFERENCES/PAPERS (Selected)
2019-2018
ORGANIZATION (CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS)
- Organized the 12th Humboldt India Project (HIP) Lecture within the HIP Lecture Series, Guest Speaker Sarover Zaidi, Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Sonipat, Haryana, “Of Flyovers and Muslim Mohallas: Mapping the political Horizons of Bombay”, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 21, 2019.
- Organized the 29th International Humboldt India Project (HIP) Workshop, with invited speakers from Berlin, Dresden, Växjö (Sweden), Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 26, 2019.
- Organized the 28th International Humboldt India Project (HIP) Workshop, with invited speakers from Göttingen, Berlin and Kansas (USA), Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 8, 2018.
- Organized the International Conference “The Politics of ‘Doing’ Culture: Entangled India and the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War Years, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (in collaboration with Leibniz- Zentrum Moderner Orient), December 21-22, 2018.
- Organized the 27th International Humboldt India Project (HIP) Workshop, with invited speakers from Kathmandu, Berlin, New Delhi and Potsdam, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, December 7, 2018.
- Organized the 10th Humboldt India Project (HIP) Lecture within the HIP Lecture Series, Guest Speaker Prof. P.R. Kumaraswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, “Modi Turns West: India and the Persian Gulf”, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 29, 2018.
LECTURES/PAPERS AT WORKSHOPS
2019-18
- The Indian Elections of 2019 Lecture delivered as part of the series “Why do Elections Matter?”, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, June 3, 2019.
- “From Nation Building to Nation Branding: The arc of Nationalism(s) and National Identifications in India”, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 28, 2019.
- “India related holdings in the German Archival Landscape”, paper presented at the International Workshop Cultures of Archival Research in India and Germany, Marburg University, Marburg and Berlin, May 15–21, 2019
- “MIDA Archival Reflexicon”, Presentation at the Launch of the MIDA Project, Leibniz- Zentrum Moderner Orient, May 11, 2019.
- “The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths of Radio Berlin International during the Cold War in India”, Lecture delivered at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, April 11, 2019.
- “Ola India! Navigating trust and dis/mistrust with India’s new Taxi App”, paper presented at International Workshop Governance and Processes of Bureaucratization, Leipzig, January 31-February 1, 2019.
- “Mann Ki Baat (Matters of the Heart): The Affective-Sentimental Indian Prime Minister on All India Radio”, paper presented at International Workshop Populist Discourse and Claims to Authenticity in Brazil, India and Ukraine, Braunschweig, November 8-9, 2018.
- “Speaking the Nation: The Oratorical Making of Secular, Neo-liberal India”, Lecture at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat, India, September 18, 2018.
- “Speaking the Nation: The Oratorical Making of Secular India”, Lecture at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, India, September 14, 2018.
- “Speaking the Nation: Prime Ministers and the making of neo-liberal India since 1991”, Paper presented at the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) Paris, France, July 24-27, 2018.
2017-16 (selected)
- “Who Steers the Wheel?” Taxi Drivers and bureaucratic Technologies in Senegal and India, paper presented at the Institute colloquium of the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, July, 18, 2017.
- “From Nation Building to Nation Branding: Nationalism(s) in India”, Public Lecture delivered at the Department of Social Anthropology (in consortium with Sanskrit Studies and Indology departments) Mainz University, within the lecture series “South Asia on the Move”, Mainz, June 12, 2017.
- ‘Between East Berlin and New Delhi: Mutually Entangled Trajectories of University Intellectuals 1952-72’, November 13, 2016, History Department, New York University, Abu Dhabi.
- ‘Sichtbar werden. Um Anerkennung werben: Die ‚Kulturpolitik’ der DDR – Indien Beziehungen, 1952-1972’, September 22, 2016, 51. Deutscher Historikertag in Hamburg 2016, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands e.V. (VHD) German Historical Conference.
- Absences in Translation: Voices of South Asian Prisoners of War from German Camps in WWI’, September 10, 2016, Presentation at Exhibition: Digging Deep, Crossing Far, Kunstraum Bethanien, Kreuzberg, Berlin.
- ‘Modern India in German Archives’, March 16, 2016, Paper presented at the German Studies Department of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
- ‘Indian Prisoners of World War I in Germany: Translating Voices from the Sound Archive in Berlin’, March 15, 2016, Paper Presented at Legacy 2016, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Marginality and Othering, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India.
- ‘Modern India in German Archives: How to study India in German Archives’, March 14, 2016, Opening Lecture presented at Legacy 2016, History Fest, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India.
- ‘Voices from World War One: Exploring Sound Recordings of Colonial Prisoners of War in Historical Research’ February 13, 2016, Paper presented with Dr. Heike Liebau and Larissa Schmid at the Conference Listening to the Archive. Histories of Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences co-organized by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciences and Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Berlin.