Seema Alavi

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Seema Alavi is an Indian historian. She is a professor of history at Ashoka University, India and specializes in medieval and early modern South Asia.

Career

Alavi completed her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge, and has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, as well as fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute, at Harvard University, and the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.[1] She is an editor with Modern Asian Studies.[2] She was a professor of history at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India, and has also taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Delhi. She currently teaches at Ashoka University, India where she is currently a professor of history.[1]

Writing

Alavi published Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770–1830 (Oxford University Press, 1995),[3] which studied the formation of the Bengal Army by the East India Company in India, during 1770 to 1830. It was developed from her doctoral dissertation at Cambridge University, which was titled, North Indian military culture in transition.[4] The book was reviewed in The Indian Economic and Social History Review by Michael H. Fisher,[5] and in the Journal of Asian Studies, by Douglas M. Peers.[6]

In 2001, along with historian

Reviews in History by P. J. Marshall,[8] in The Indian Historical Review, by Raziuddin Aquil,[9] and in The International History Review
by Robert Travers.

In 2002, Alavi edited The Eighteenth Century in India, as part of Oxford University Press' series of Debates in Indian History and Society, consisting of key documents and debates in 18th century Indian historiography.[10] It contained contributions from Irfan Habib, Bernard S. Cohn, P.J. Marshall, and C.A. Bayly.[10] In 2008, Alavi published Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900 (Palgrave Macmillan), which studied the history of medicine and care in Islamic traditions in India.[11] The book was reviewed by Farhat Husain in Contributions to Indian Sociology,[12] by Projit Bihari Mukharji in Social History of Medicine,[13] by Francis Robinson in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,[14] and Anne Marie Moulin in the International Journal of Asian Studies.[15]

In 2015, Alavi published Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the age of Empire (Harvard University Press), which is a study of five Islamic scholars who were pursued by British colonial authorities after the

Middle East Studies Association.[16][17]

Alavi has also published research in

The Indian Economic and Social History Review,[18] and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.[19]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b "Prof. Seema Alavi – Department of History, University of Delhi". Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Seema Alavi". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-564595-8
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  4. doi:10.17863/cam.19458
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  5. S2CID 144296220
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  6. S2CID 161440728
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  7. ISBN 978-0-19-569187-0
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  8. ^ a b "A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I'jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773–1779) of Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier | Reviews in History". reviews.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  9. S2CID 142427642
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    ISBN 978-0-19-569201-3
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  11. ISBN 978-1-349-36391-9
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  12. S2CID 144212822
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  13. ISSN 0951-631X
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  14. ISSN 1568-5209
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  15. S2CID 143774767
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  16. ^ a b "Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire – Seema Alavi". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  17. ^ a b "Middle East Studies Association – MESA Book Awards – Seema Alavi". Middle East Studies Association. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  18. S2CID 144886114
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  19. S2CID 229355982
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