DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
M.A.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Professor
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Medieval Indian History
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
Department of History,A.M.U.,Aligarh
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
7599296411
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
alamishrat@gmail.com
Fellowships Received:
1. Netherlands Government Reciprocal Fellowship, 21 April 1986-31 December 1987.
2. Qualified in UGC National Education Test (N.E.T.- J.R.F.), August 1984.
3. U.G.C. Junior Research Fellowship, April 1981 to July 1984.
Positions and Honours:
Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India) 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001.
Member, School Board of School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, 2018.
Appointed Member, Research Council, History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 2018-2021.
Invited as an expert to attend a meeting of Experts for Syllabus Reconstruction Committee, Teaching and Learning Centre, under PMMMNMTT Scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, organised by the Department of History, Savitribai Phule, Pune University, Pune, 9-10 March, 2018.
Participated as an expert in the Development of World Class Curriculum in History, Department of History, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli-24, 26-02-2016.
Editorial Board (s):
- Member, Editorial Board, Studies in People’s History, (Journal), SAGE Publications, New Delhi.
- Managing Editor, Indian Historical Review, ISSN0376-9836, published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, on behalf of Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, since July, 2010 till September, 2013.
- Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, from 2012-2013.
(b) 1. Visiting Professor, University of Calcutta, 27.03.2017 – 30.03.2017
2. Visiting Fellow, Department of History, under UGC-SAP-DSA II Programme, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 22.03.2015– 30.03.2015.
Member of National Council(s):
- Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India), New Delhi, since 8 October 2008.
- Member, Research Council / National Commission for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi since 2009.
Books:
- Sajal Nag and Ishrat Alam, eds. Blending Nation and Region, Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha, Primus Books, ISBN:978-93-886552-73-0, Delhi, 2018.
- Ishrat Alam and Syed Ejaz Hussain, eds. The Varied Facets of History, Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray, Primus Books, ISBN:978-93-80607-16-0, Delhi, 2011.
- Ishrat Alam, ‘Textiles, Technology and Trade in Medieval India’, accepted for publication by Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
- Contributed five chapters* in History of Technology in India, Medieval Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol. II, Indian National Science Academy, ISBN: 978-81-928826-1-1, New Delhi, 2011 (a publication of Indian National Science Academy).
* 3.5 Textile Technology in Medieval North India
3.6 Sericulture and Silk Technology in Medieval India
3.8 Indigo Production Technology in Medieval India
4.2 Iron and Steel Fabrication Technology in Medieval India
4.3 Diamond Mining and Trade in Medieval Times
Research Papers: More than 70.
Citations: More than eighty (select few are mentioned below)
Ikuko Wada ‘Diamond Trade by the Dutch East India Company in Seventeenth-Century India’ in Nagazumi Yoko, Large and Broad, The Dutch Impact on Early Modern Asia, The Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, 2010, cited on p. 167
Alam Ishrat, 2000. ‘Diamond Mining and Trade in South India’ Robert Simpkins, ‘An Archeology of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Golkanda’ Karin Hofmeester and Pim de Zwart, ed. Colonialism, Institutional Change and Shifts In Global Labour Relations, Rassane Barragon, ‘…und das Problem der Arbeit: eine Studie zur soziaty eshichte der Stadt Madras und ihres Hinterlandes zwischen 1750 und 1800, Stuttgart, 1999.
Karin Pallaver, ‘Paying in Cents, Paying in Rupees: Colonial Currencies, Labour Relations, and the payment of Wages in early Colonial Kenya’, Arty Lobo, ‘The Dutch East India Company Settlements in Tamil Nadu, 1602-1825-A Study in Political Economy’, Ph.D. thesis.
Ronita Ray, ‘All that Glitters: Diamonds and Constructions of Nabobery in British Portraits (1600-1800), in Julia Skellyed, The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture,1700-2010, London, Ashgate, 2014, pp. 19-40
S. Eijaz Hussain, ‘Rise and Decline of Surgery in Indigenous Medicine with emphasis on Unani Tibb’, cited ‘Diseases and Medicines in the Pre-Modern World: Divergent Societies’ Assessments’.
Josh Ivinson, ‘The Globalisation of Diamonds via East India Company networks in the late seventeenth century: Reinterpreting the role of non-Europeans in the English Anvate Trade’, Noemie Vesdon, ‘Cartograpgy and Cultural encounter: Conceptualisation of al-Hind of Arabic and Persian Writers from 9th to 11th C A.D.’ cited the paper ‘Names of India….’
Irfan Habib, Technology in Medieval India, c. 650-1750, New Delhi, 2008, p. 84 where Professor Irfan Habib has appreciated my identification of Cotton gin in one of the Ajanta frescoes.
John S. Deyell, ‘Cowries and coins: The Duala monetary system of the Bengal Sultanate’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 47, 1 (2010), 63-106, refers to my paper on ‘Sarrafs (bankers) in the Mughal Empire’, paper presented at Session, 106, XIV International Economic History Congrall, Helsinki, 2006.
D. N. Jha, ‘Looking for a Hindu Identity’, in Social Science Probings, Vol. 18, No. 1, June 2006, p.5.
D. N Jha, ‘Looking for a Hindu Identity’, General Presidents Address, 66th session, Indian History Congress, 28-30 January 2006, pp-5-6
S. Jaikishan, ‘Medieval Iron and steel Industry in worthern Telangana’, Proceeding of the Indian History Congress, 66th session (Shantineketan), Delhi, 2006, pp. 339-341.
Shireen Moosvi, ‘Domestic Service in Precolonial India, Bondage, Caste and Market’, in Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, ed. Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th – 21st centuries, Oxford, 2005, p. 550.
Eugenia Vanina, Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth-Eighteenth Centuries), Delhi, 2004, pp. 30-34.
Sunita Zaidi, ‘The Saga of Indian Silk’, in Silk The saga of India’s Fashion Fabric, Survive Magazine, February 2004, p.8.
A. Jan Qaisar and Som Prakash Verma, ‘The Miftah ul Fuzala: A study of an Illustrated Persian Lexicon’, Art and Culture, Painting and Perspective, Abhinav, Delhi. 2002, p.21.
Som Prakash Verma, ‘Ordinary Life in Mughal Painting’, Art and Culture, Painting and Perspective, Abhinav, Delhi, 2002, p.101.
M.A. Al-Bakhit, L. Bazin and S.M. Gissoko, eds., History of Humanity, Scientific and Cultural Development, From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. IV, UNESCO, London, 2000, p.402.
Peter Burke and Halil Inalcik, eds., History of Humanity,Scientific andCultural Development, From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Vol.V. UNESCO, Paris, 1999, p.
S. Najaf Haider, ‘Precious Metal Flows and Currency Circulation in the Mughal Empire’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol, 39, part 3, August, 1996 Leiden, p.330.
P. Shanmugam, ‘Textile Production during the Vijayanagar Rule’, History and Society Essays in Honour of Professor Kadhirvel, ed., K.A. Manikumar, Madras, 1996,pp. 43-49.
Kiran Singh, Textiles in Ancient India, from Indus Valley Civilization to Maurya Period, Varanasi, 1994, pp. 53-54.
Irfan Habib, ‘Pursuing the History of Indian Technology-Premodern modes of transmission of Power’, delivered at the Rajiv Bambawale Memorial Lectures, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 4 April 1990, pp.17-40, published in Social Scientist, Vol.20 (Nos. 3-4), Delhi, March-April 1992, pp. 6, 13.
B. Sree Padma, ‘Ancient South India: Its Textile Industry and Trade’, Indica, Vol.29, Bombay, March 1992, No. 1, p.2.
I.G. Khan, ‘Modes of Technology Transfer between India and Central Asia (c.1200-1650 A.D.)’ in Interaction between Indian and Central Asian Science and Technology in Medieval Times, Vol.II, Delhi, 1990, pp.139.
Irfan Habib, ‘Capacity of Technological Change in Mughal India’, in Technology in Ancient and Medival India, eds. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Delhi, 1986, p. 11
S.P. Verma, ‘Technology in Mughal India –Evidence of Mughal Painting’, in Technology in Ancient and Medival India, eds. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Delhi, 1986, p. 21.
Vijaya Ramaswamy, ‘The genesis and historical role of the Master Weavers in South Indian Textile Production’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. XXVIII, Part III, October, Leiden (The Netherlands), 1985, p 299.
Irfan Habib, ‘Medieval Technology: Exchanges between India and the Islamic World’, presented at the UNESCO Symposium on the ‘Role of the Arab and Islamic Civilization in the History of Mankind’, Kuwait, 17-20 December 1984, published in Aligarh Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.II, No. 2, 1985, pp.214-218.
Contribution to Corporate Life:
- Provost, Sir Syed Hall (North), AMU, Aligarh, 25th September, 2019-16th October, 2021.
- Superintendent Examination, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, 2018-19, 2019-20 & 2020-21.
- Coordinator B.A Programme, Centre for Distance Education, AMU Aligarh since 6 May 2006.
- Assistant Proctor, AMU, Aligarh 20-10.1996to 09.02.1999,
- Warden, Sir Syed Hall (North) (a) 13.01.1993 to 03.12.1993, (b) Warden, Sir Syed Hall (North) 01.11.2002 to 18.01.2004.