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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| 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 |
| 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 |
• 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
• ----(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
• 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.
• 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).