WilliamR.Pinch
DepartmentofHistory
Office:(860)685-2399
238ChurchSt,WesleyanUniversity
Fax:(860)685-2078
Middletown,CT06459
[email protected]
ACADEMICAPPOINTMENTS
2005–present ProfessorofHistory,WesleyanUniversity
1998–2005
AssociateProfessorofHistory,WesleyanUniversity
1991–1998
AssistantProfessorofHistory,WesleyanUniversity
Spring1990
Lecturer,HistoryofModernSouthAsia,CollegeofWilliam&Mary
ADMINISTRATIVE,EDITORIAL,&RESEARCHAPPOINTMENTS
2015–2016 Chair,EnvironmentalStudiesProgram,WesleyanUniversity
2014–present Treasurer,AmericanInstituteofIndianStudies
2012–present AssociateEditor,History&Theory
2012–2013
Fulbright-NehruSeniorResearchScholar,DelhiUniversity
2009–2012
Chair,DepartmentofHistory,WesleyanUniversity
2009–2011
SouthAsiaCo-Editor,TheJournaloftheEconomicandSocialHistoryof
theOrient
1997–2000
BookReviewEditor,TheJournalofAsianStudies
1994–1995
Fulbright-HaysSeniorResearchScholar,JawaharlalNehruUniversity
1990–1991
AssistantDean,FacultyofArtsandSciences,UniversityofVirginia
EDUCATION
UniversityofVirginia: PhD1990,History,ModernSouthAsia;chair:WalterHauser
MA1986,History,ModernSouthAsia
BA1982,GovernmentandForeignAffairs
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
WarriorAsceticsandIndianEmpires(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2006;
paperbackedition,2012),xii,280pp.,11illustrations.
PeasantsandMonksinBritishIndia(Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1996),xii,
242pp.;reissuedintheOxfordIndiaPaperbacksseries(Delhi:OxfordUniversityPress,
1999).
Editedvolumes
HistoryandTheoryinaGlobalFrame.Co-editedwithEthanKleinberg.Historyand
Theory,themeissueno.53.December2015.
SpeakingofPeasants:EssaysonIndianHistoryandPoliticsinHonorofWalterHauser
(NewDelhi:Manohar,2008),504pp.Soleeditor;authorofpreface,introduction,and
chapterfour.
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ScholarlyArticlesandBookChapters
2016: ‘SitesofMemoryandStructuresofPowerinNorthIndia:Anandamathand
Hanumangarhi,’inSanjuktaGhosh,EzraRashkow,UpalChakrabarti(eds.),
Memory,Identity,andtheColonialEncounterinIndia:EssaysinHonourofPeter
Robb(NewDelhiandLondon:Routledge,forthcoming),8,000words
2016: ‘WarandSuccession:Padmakar,ManKavi,andtheGosainsofBundelkhand,
1792-1806,’TextsandTraditionsinEarlyModernNorthIndia,ed.TylerWilliams,
AnshuMalhotra,J.S.Hawley(Delhi:OxfordUniversityPress,forthcoming),
approx.9,000wordsinEnglishand1,000inHindi
2015: ‘Women,Gender,Emotions:RethinkingMeerutin1857,’NehruMemorial
MuseumandLibrary,Occ.Papers,HistoryandSociety,newser.,no.83,pp.1-46.
2013: ‘ProstitutingtheMutiny:Sex-slaveryandCrimeintheMakingof1857,’in
CrispinBates(ed.),MutinyattheMargins:NewPerspectivesontheIndian
Uprisingof1857,VolumeI:AnticipationsandExperiencesintheLocality(New
Delhi:Sage),61-87
2012: ‘TheSlaveGuru:Masters,Commanders,andDisciplesinearlymodernSouth
Asia,’inJacobCopemanandAyaIkegame(eds.),TheGuru:Re-theorisingSpiritual
LeadershipinIndia(NewYork:Routledge),64-79
2012: ‘HidinginPlainSight:GosainsinBanaras,1809,’inMichaelDodson(ed.),
Benares:UrbanHistory,Architecture,Identity(NewDelhi:RoutledgeIndia),77109
2012: ‘NathYogis,Akbar,andthe“BalnathTilla”’,inDavidGordonWhite(ed.),Yogain
Practice(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress),273-288
2011: ‘TheCorpseandCultofFrancisXavier,1552-1623’,inPeterGottschalkand
MathewSchmalz(eds.),EngagingSouthAsianReligions:Boundaries,
Appropriations,andResistances(Albany:SUNYPress),113-131
2009: ‘CriminalConspiraciesandReligiousViolence:WhenStranglersRoamedthe
Roads,’CounterPunch16,21(1-15Dec),pp.1,3-7
2009: ‘MumbaiRevisited,’inTheImmanentFrame:Secularism,Religion,andthePublic
Sphere,25Nov
2004: ‘GosainTawaif:Sex,Slaves,andAsceticsinRasdhan,1800-1857,’ModernAsian
Studies38,3(July):559-597
2003: ‘BhaktiandtheBritishEmpire,’Past&Present179,1(May):159-196.Reprinted
inWilliamR.Pinch(ed.),SpeakingofPeasants:EssaysonIndianHistoryand
PoliticsinHonorofWalterHauser(NewDelhi:Manohar,2008)
2000: ‘KillingAsceticsinIndianHistory,ca.1500-2000,’PoliticalandLegal
AnthropologyReview(Methodologysection)23,2(November):134-140
1999: ‘SameDifferenceinIndiaandEurope,’reviewessayonB.S.Cohn,Colonialism
andItsFormsofKnowledge:TheBritishinIndia(Princeton,1996)andC.A.Bayly,
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EmpireandInformation:IntelligenceGatheringandSocialCommunicationin
India,1780-1870(Cambridge,UK,1996),HistoryandTheory38,3(October):
389-407
1999: ‘History,Devotion,andtheSearchforNabhadasofGalta,’inDaudAli(ed.),
InvokingthePast:TheUsesofHistoryinSouthAsia(Delhi:OxfordUniversity
Press),367-399
1998: ‘WhowasHimmatBahadur?Gosains,Rajputs,andtheBritishinBundelkhand,
ca.1800,’IndianEconomicandSocialHistoryReview35,3(November):293-335
1998: ‘Historicity,Hagiography,andHierarchyinGangeticIndia,1918-1936,’in
WilliamRadice(ed.),SwamiVivekanandaandtheModernisationofHinduism
(Delhi:OxfordUniversityPress),244-263
1996: ‘ReinventingRamanand:CasteandHistoryinGangeticIndia,’ModernAsian
Studies30,3(July):549-572.Reissuedwithslightchangesas‘Remembering
Ramanand:CasteandHistoryinGangeticIndia,’JournalofVaisnavaStudies8,1
(Fall1999):35-57
1996: ‘SoldierMonksandMilitantSadhus,’inDavidLudden(ed.),Contestingthe
Nation:Religion,Community,andthePoliticsofDemocracyinIndia
(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvania),140-162.ReleasedinIndiaas
MakingIndiaHindu:Community,Conflict,andthePoliticsofDemocracy;nowin
itssecondedition
WORKINPROGRESS
Books
UncommonGround–cantonmentcultureandthemakingof1857
PoemsforaWarlord–atranslationofManKavi’sAnūp-prakāśandPadmakar’s
HimmatbahādurVirudāvalī,twolong‘Braj’Hindipoemsdatingfromca.1790-1800
(withDalpatRajpurohitandAllisonBusch)
Articles
‘TheWaterscapeofNorthBihar:NotesfromtheĀina-iTirhutofBihārīLāl“Fitrat,”ca.
1880’(withAditiN.Kini),YaleBhaktiConference,13-15May2016.Firstdraftcomplete.
‘Raj:Sovereignty,Politics,Agency,Scale,’for‘TropicsofCapricorn:Conceptsfromthe
GlobalSouth,’Johannesburg,21-23October2016.Inprocess.
‘Beheading/Debodying:Violence,Spectacle,andSovereignty,1631-1858,’forAmerican
HistoricalAssociationconferencepanel,‘Escalation:Micro-globalHistoriesofPolitical
Violence,’8Jan2017.Inprocess.
‘RememberingtheBattleofPanipat,1761.’Translation/discussionofthe‘Balladofthe
Bhau,’aboutthefateoftheMarathaleader,Sadashivarao’(withSonalSingh).