Curriculum Vitae of Urvi Mukhopadhyay
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 14 February 1975
Nationality: Indian.
Address: Ruchira Residency, Flat 2/4, Tower 3, Kalitala Lane,
Purbachal, Kolkata 700078, India.
Phone: +91 33 24844137
Marital Status : Married.
Email :[email protected]
Education
1. PhD in South Asian History, Department of History, School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS), London University, United Kingdom. 2004.
2. Master Degree (MA) in History (Specialisation in Medieval Indian History) with First
Class (60% and above) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. 1998.
3. Bachelor Degree (BA) with History (Honours) and Film Studies (Subsidiary Subject) from
Jadavpur University securing First Class (60% and above), Kolkata, India. 1996.
4. Passed Higher Secondary Examination (Uccha Madhyamik) held by the West Bengal
Council for Higher Secondary Education, India with Bengali, English, History Geography,
Political Science and Fine Arts as subjects studied securing First Division marks (67%),
1993.
5. Passed Secondary Examination ( Madhyamik ) held by West Bengal Board of Secondary
education, India with Bengali, English, History, Geography, Mathematics, Life Science,
Physical Science, Civics and Economics as taught subjects securing First Division marks
(65%), 1991.
Research Details
1. Title of the Thesis: The Perception of the ‘Medieval’ in Popular Indian Films: 1920s to
1960s. This thesis explores the historicising process in popular cultural level at a time of
an immense political and social influx at the background of colonialism, nationalism and
various nation-building aspirations. 1999-2004.
Work Experience
1. Teaching in the Department of History West Bengal State University as Assistant
Professor from April 2009 till date.
2. Taught as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Uluberia College, Calcutta
University. September 2003 to March 2009.
3. Taught as a Part-time Lecturer in the Department of History, Lady Brabourne College,
Calcutta University, Kolkata. March, 1999 to August, 1999.
4. Taught as a Part-time lecturer in the Department of History, Maheshtala College, 24
Parganas, Calcutta University from January 1999 to March 1999.
5. Translated Irfan Habib edited ‘Medieval India’ from English to Bengali. Published as
Madhyakalin Bharat: Volume III from K. P. Bagchi and Co., Kolkata, 2001.
List of Publications
1. ‘Defining ‘Islamic’ Urbanity through a Trans-regional Frame’ in Asian Review of
World Histories, Vol 3, Issue 1, January 2015.
2. Monograph titled The 'Medieval' in Film: Representing a Contested Time on the Indian
Screen (1920s-1960s) from Orient Blackswan 2013.
3. ‘Imagining the Powerful "Other:" Representations of Razia Sultan’ in Diana Dimitrova
edited The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism
and Otherness by Routledge, UK, December 2013
4.
‘Addressing the Masses: Gandhi’s Notion of ‘The People’ and Indian Cinema’s Popular
Market in South Asian History and Culture, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2011.
5.
‘Communalism, Secularism and Indian Historical Films (1940-46)’ in Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol XLII, No.15, April 12-18.
6.
‘Cinematic Representations of the Revolt of 1857: An Overview’ to be published in
Chittabrata Palit and Mrinal Basu ed. Revisiting the Revolt of 1857, Indian Books, Delhi,
2009.
7. Review article Scoring off the field: football culture in Bengal 1911–80 by Kausik
Bandyopadhyay in Sport in Society Vol.16, issue 9, November 2013.
8. Review article ‘Representing the ‘Other’ on Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen, Islamicate
Cultures of Bombay Cinema to be published in Biblio: A Review of Books, vol. xv,
no.1&2, 2010.
9. Review article ‘A contextual Account of Indian Secularism’ on Indian Secularism: A
Social and Intellectual History 1890-1950 by Shabnum Tejani in Economic and Political
Weekly, April 4- 10, 2009, vol. XLIV. No.14.
10. Review article on Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institution of Art in Colonial and
Postcolonial India by Tapati Guha-Thakurta in Contemporary South Asia, Vol 14(4),
December 2005, Manchester, UK.
11. Review article on A time of Coalitions: Divided we Stand by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and
Shankar Raghuraman in Democratization, Vol.12 (3), June 2005, New York, USA.
12. Review article on Making Sense of History: Society, Culture and Politics by Mushirul
Hasan in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 13(2), June 2004, Manchester, UK.
13. ‘Historicals from Maharashtra Film Company: History in Nationalist Rhetoric’, in
Journal of History, Jadavpur University, vol.xx:2002-2003, Department of History,
Jadavpur University.
Forthcoming Publications
1. ‘Representations of Death in Children’s Literature in Bengali during the Colonial Era’ in
Lesley Layli edited volume titled Affirming Life: Confrontations with Death in
Children’s Literature Around the World. From Routledge, UK.
2. ‘Tale of Two Cities: Bombay and Calcutta in the Eyes of Satyendranath Tagore (18441923) in Indian Historical Review, ICHR journal.
List of Presented Papers
1. ‘Versions in Re-Visioning the Medieval Past in Indian Films: The silent Era’ in Local
Culture and Modernity in Colonial India, BASAS Annual Conference, 2002, 15-17 April,
Lancaster University, UK.
2. ‘The Nationalist Imageries and the Invocations of the ‘Medieval’ in Films from
Maharashtra during 1920s,’ in the South Asian Culture Conference, Portsmouth
University, UK, March, 2002.
3. ‘Perceiving the Medieval: Nineteenth Century Pedagogy and Bhadralok’, in the National
Seminar on ‘The Cultural Practices of the Bhadralok of Bengal: Pedagogy and Ideology’
in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, March 23 and 24, 2006.
4. ‘Representing 1857 on the Silver Screen’ in the 4th Annual seminar on
‘Rethinking and Reinventing the Revolt of 1857’ jointly organized by Loreto
College and Corpus Research Institute, 18-19 April 2007.
5. ‘Cinematic Representations of the Revolt of 1857: An Overview’ in the National
Seminar on ‘1857: Re-defining Boundaries and Culture’ organised by
Department of History, Loreto College, Kolkata and Victoria Memorial Hall,
Kolkata, September 20 and 21, 2007.
7. ‘From Nawabs to Jihadis: Representations of the Islam in Popular Indian Cinema’
presented in the International Conference on ‘The Representations of Islam’ organised
by the Manchester University and the Surrey University, Manchester, UK, September 5
and 6, 2008.
8. ‘Representing the ‘Terror’: Bollywood Versions’ presented in the seminar titled ‘Film
and Globalization’ in the Kolkata Film Festival, 2008, on November 15, 2008.
9. ‘Indian Cinema during the Days of Gandhism’ presented in the 2 days national seminar
on The Indian National Congress and the Struggle for Independence’ organised by
Loreto College, Kolkata and Victoria Memorial Hall 30September- 1October 2010.
10. ‘Imagining the Powerful Other: Razia Sultan in Popular Representations’ presented in
European Conference in Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn, Germany, 2010.
11. ‘Tale of Two Cities: Bombay and Calcutta in the Eyes of Satyendranath Tagore (18441923)’ in the session Mashup Metropolis: The British Imperial City in Global Context
in European Urban History Conference held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2012.
12. ‘Defining Urbanity through a Trans-Regional Frame’ in Writing World History
Conference- Workshop organised by INSTITUT DE CHANDERNAGOR, Funded by
ICHR, India (November 10-15 2013), Sundarban, West Bengal.
13. ‘Film and History/History in Film’ in National seminar on Practice of History- Recent
Trends in the Department of History, University of Pune, Maharashtra, India,
(February 25-26, 2014).
14. Metiaburz : A ‘Second Lucknow’ , An Islamic Ghetto or the Industrial Suburb of
Colonial Calcutta? In National Seminar on Understanding Urban History, Guwahati
University, Assam in collaboration with ICHR, India, 6-7 September 2014.
15. Celebrating Cities: Writing about Urbanity in Nineteenth Century India in
International Conference on Cities in Indian History, Department of History,
Hyderabad University, Hyderabad, India, 16-17 November, 2014.
Scholarships and Awards
1. Awarded Full Scholarship from Felix Scholarship Fund for the doctoral project, 19992002.
2. Awarded Charles Wallace Educational Grant for completion of the PhD project, 2003.
3. Awarded financial grant from the Mountbatten Memorial Trust in 2003.
4. Passed National Eligibility Test (NET) organised by UGC, India for Lectureship in
Indian Universities, 2000
Other Activities
1. Participated as a resource person in UGC sponsored documentary series on the
Revolt of 1857.
2. Participated as a resource person in a refresher course in Women’s Studies organised by
the Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, Feb 27-March 18, 2008.
3. Participated as a resource person in a refresher course in Bengali organised by the
Academic Staff College, Jadavpur University, December 2013.
4. Participated as a resource person in a refresher course in Women’s Studies organised by
the Academic Staff College, Jadavpur University, November 2014.