SyedNajafHaider

ProfessorofMedievalHistory

CentreforHistoricalStudies

JawaharlalNehruUniversity

NewDelhi110067

Office:

319,SchoolofSocialSciences3

Ph.91‐11‐26704567

snajafhaider@gmail.com

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