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Ruby LalProfessor
Biography
Education/Degrees
- D.Phil., Modern History, University of Oxford, England
- M.Phil., History, University of Delhi, India
- M.A., History, University of Delhi, India
- B.A., History, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India
Teaching/Research Areas
- History of colonial and pre-colonial South Asia
- The Mughal Empire
- Comparative histories of the Mughal, Ottoman and Safavid Empires
- Gender history of the Islamic societies in early modern and modern world
- Feminist theory and History as it relates to the archive
Books Published
- Royal Vagabond: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (New Haven: Yale University Press; Forthcoming, February 2024)
- Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, A new South Asia edition (New Delhi: Permanent Black and Ashoka University, Fall 2022; Classics in Indian History series)
- In Pursuit of Playfulness: The Girl-Child/Woman and Nineteenth Century India, A New South Asia edition of Coming of Age (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2019)
- Empress: The Astonishing Life of Nur Jahan (NY: W.W. Norton, 2018; paperback, 2020)
- Coming of Age in Nineteenth Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Photo credit: Diana Tyszko
