Faculty Details
Dr. Aakhya Isha

Dr. Aakhya Isha

Assistant Professor

Email: aakhyaisha@rla.du.ac.in

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Orcid Id: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6244-3294

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Educational Qualifications
S.No. Qualification University / Institution Year
1 Ph.D. History Jawaharlal Nehru University 2025
2 M.Phil. History University of Hyderabad 2018
3 M.A. Jawaharlal Nehru University 2016
4 B.A. (Hons.) University of Delhi 2014
Industry/Permanent/Temporary/Contractual/Adhoc Teaching Experience
Sr.No. Post Institution Duration Type
1 Assistant Professor Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi Permanent
2 Guest Lecturer Maitreyi College, University of Delhi 8 Months Temporary
3 Guest Lecturer Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University 10 Months Temporary
4 Guest Lecturer Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi 3 Months Temporary
5 Guest Lecturer Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi 6 Months Temporary
Area Of Interests/Specialization
• Modern Indian History, Contemporary History
Subjects Taught
• History of United States of America (Independence to Civil War)

• Issues in 20th century World History

• Delhi Through the Ages

• History of Modern Europe-II

• Colonialism and Nationalism: Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century India

• Reading Archives

• Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe 

• History of the USSR: From Revolution to Disintegration (c. 1917 – 1991)

• Introduction to History 

• History Through Cinema

• Travel Accounts 

• Cityscapes
Journal Publications
• Isha, A. (2017). Forms of negotiations and state formation in the 18th century Deccan. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 78, 446–453. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26906114
 

• ----(2022). Feeding the East India Company: Troops and configuration of power in eighteenth-century Deccan. Journal of Indian History and Culture, 29, 223–252.
 

• ----(2025). Vernacularizing scientific agriculture in colonial Bihar: An informal pedagogy of Hindi periodical, Kisan (1933–1940). Indian Journal of History of Science, 60, 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-025-00162-7
 

• ----(2025). Dialectics of Sahajanand Saraswati: Khet Mazdoor and the other agrarian discourses. Contemporary Voice of Dalit. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X251388837
Chapters in books and e-chapters(Published)
• Isha, A. (2023). My Son’s inheritance: A secret history of lynching and blood justice in India, by A. Vaidik, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, (2020) in South Asian History and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2023.2164982
Conference Oraganization /Presentations
National Conferences:

• Isha, A. (2017). Forms of negotiations and state formation in the 18th-century Deccan. 78th Session of the Indian History Congress, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
 

• Isha, A. (2019). Fresh insights on the political consolidation of the East India Company. 79th Session of the Indian History Congress, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India.
 

• Isha, A. (2019). Mapping political relations in the economic landscape of South Asia: A case study of 18th-century Deccan. 7th South Asian History Conference, Punjabi University, Patiala, India.
 

• Isha, A. (2020). Feeding the East India Company: Troops and configuration of power in 18th-century Deccan. Research Scholar Conference, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
 

• Isha, A. (2022). Vernacularizing scientific knowledge: A review of Kisan, a Hindi periodical from colonial Bihar (1933–1940). 81st Session of the Indian History Congress, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India.
 

• Isha, A. (2024). Writing for the subalterns, Khet Mazdoor: Agrarian discourses of Sahajanand Saraswati. 83rd Session of the Indian History Congress, Punjabi University, Patiala, India.
International Conferences:

• Isha, A. (2022). Shaping scientific agricultural knowledge in colonial Bihar: A review of the Hindi magazine, Kisan (1933–1940). International Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, in collaboration with Vijnana Bharati.
 

• Isha, A. (2022). The Bakasht Satyagraha and the nature of the peasant movement (1935–1939). 5th Asian Associations of World Historians Congress, India International Centre, New Delhi, India.
 

• Isha, A. (2025). From agrarian fields to literary discourses: Crossing the Rubicon (1930–50). Eighth Annual Conference of the Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Awards and Distinctions
• National Eligibility Test (NET-JRF), University Grants Commission (2017-2022
Association with Professional Bodies
• Indian History Congress- Annual Member 
Other Information
• President of the Department of History, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi (2013-14)
 

• Fellow Designate for the Delhi Cohort at YES FOUNDATION—Media for Social Change Fellowship (2017).
 

• Project Attendant for DU-IoE (MRP), Department of History, University of Delhi (27 September 2022- 31st March 2023).