Pankaj Jha

Pankaj Jha has been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas, USA and got his Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He grew up, and learnt to read and write, in the industrial city of Jamshedpur in undivided Bihar. He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History from the prestigious Ramjas College of Delhi. He has taught History in a number of colleges, including RLA College, Ramjas College and St. Stephen's College. Jha is among a handful of scholars in the world who work with Sanskrit and vernacular sources as well as Persian texts to study medieval South Asian history. He has an abiding interest in researching the literary cultures of the long fifteenth century in north India. Other areas of his interest include Relations of Servility in South Asia, Medieval Sufi Beliefs and Practices, Philosophies of History, and Hindi Cinema of the post independence period.

He is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at LSR College for Women, University of Delhi. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the peer reviewed international journal, Indian Economic and Social History Review.