Arundhati Virmani
Arundhati Virmani (born 1957) is an Indian historian. She was a reader in history at
Biography
Arundhati Virmani was born in
Academic career
She began her teaching career at Jesus and Mary College and later taught at Delhi University.[2] She was the head of the History section of the School of Correspondence Courses, where she participated in adult education and Long-Distance teaching. Then Reader in European History at the History Department, she taught modern French and European History. In Marseille she taught at Université Paul Cézanne, Euromed-Marseille Business School and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Since then, her research focused on the colonial period in India, especially the 20th Century; she is also an analyst of the current transformations of Indian society. Her recent work focuses on the idea of a uniform civil code in India. She presented her work at a conference at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) on 23 November 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFUVDwYcVs&t=2266s).
She has published several books and many papers in collective works and scientific journals (in England,[3] France[4] and Italy[5]). She has lectured on colonial Indian history in different universities and academic institutions (Paris, Ithaca (USA), London, Berlin, Bologna, Florence,[6] New Delhi, New York,[7] Ann Arbor ... ). She is a research fellow at the Centre Norbert Elias[2] in Marseille.
Virmani has been engaged in consultancy work, specializing in Indo-French intercultural training since 2000. She is a recognized expert for the "Association pour le Progrès du Management". She is interested in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an Indian perspective.[8]
Published works
Known for her 2008 book, A National Flag for India. Rituals, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sentiment, about which noted writer Khushwant Singh wrote: "She has done meticulous research on the subject and put life into what may appear at first sight as a footnote in a book on Indian history.".[9][10]
- L'Inde, une puissance en mutation, Paris, La Documentation française, 2001
- India, 1900-1947. Un Britannique au cœur du Raj, Paris, Autrement, 2002 (about Sir Malcolm Lyall Darling (1880–1969), a famous British administrator in India, specialist of land reform and cooperative movement)
- "A National Affair : Nude Bharatmata," Passato e Presente, 2006, n°76
- "Roman de voyage, récit de voyage. L’Inde de Jules Verne, de Pierre Loti et d’Edward M. Forster", 2006, in Alain Guillemain (ed.), A la recherche du meilleur des mondes. Littérature et sciences sociales, Paris, Harmattan
- "Réflexions d’une hindoue convertie au christianisme : Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) et l’hindouisme", in Daniel Tollet (ed.), La religion que j’ai quittée, Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2007
- "The Place of Religious Identity in a Modern Nation State – Three Indian Responses", Annuaire de Droits et de Religion, juillet 2008
- A National Flag for India. Rituals, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sentiment, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2008. ISBN 81-7824-232-X.
- Atlas historique de l'Inde : du VIe siècle av. J.-C. au XXIe siècle, Paris, Autrement, 2012.
- Political Aesthetics : Culture, Critique and the Everyday, New-York, Routledge, 2015.
- Translation of Edward P. Thompson, Les usages de la coutume. Traditions et résistances populaires en Angleterre, XVIIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, coll. Hautes Études, Le Seuil-Gallimard-Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2015 (with Jean Boutier)
- Les Indiens. Voix multiples, Paris, Ateliers Henry Dougier, 2016. ISBN 979-10-93594-18-7 (Prize "Asia" 2015 of the Association of Francophone Writers (Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française-ADELF)[11]
- (ed.), Aesthetics of Power. Culture, Critique, and the Everyday, London, Routledge, 2015.
- (ed.), Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments, London, Routledge, 2022.
References
- ^ "Arundhati Virmani - PaperBackSwap". PaperBackSwap.
- ^ a b c "Mapping India down the ages". Deccan Herald. 1 October 2012.
- ^ "National Symbols under Colonial Domination. The Nationalization of the Indian Flag, March–August 1923", Past and Present, n.164, 1999, 169-197
- ^ Annuaire de Droit et de Religion, 2008
- ^ Storica, 2002, Daimon. Annuario di Diritto comparato delle Religioni, 2001, Passato e Presente, 2009
- ^ "University of Florence – Prof. Arundhati Virmani – "A National Flag for India"". Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ bardgradcenter (7 November 2013). "Seminar Series: Arundhati Virmani, Indian Wedding Cards: Publicizing the Intimate". Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Jean-Jacques Rosé (Responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise) : "La France est venue tardivement à la RSE, mais elle va vite"".
- ^ Arundhati Virmani Talk Delhi events. 9 August 2009.
- The Telegraph (Kolkata). Archived from the originalon 23 October 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Les Prix littéraires de l'ADELF - Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française". www.adelf.info. Retrieved 6 May 2018.