Shabnum Tejani
BA (OBERLIN COLL) MA MPHIL PHD (COLUMBIA)
Overview
Department of History
(Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia)
Centre of South Asian Studies
(Member, Centre of South Asian Studies)
Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance
Contact Details
- Name:
- Shabnum Tejani
- Email address:
- st40@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4613
Teaching
Courses Taught
Expertise
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Regional Expertise
- South Asia
Country Expertise
- India
Languages
- Hindi
Publications
Authored Books
Tejani , Shabnum (2008) Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History 1890-1950. Indiana Univ Press.
Chapters in Books
Tejani , Shabnum (2007) 'Reflections on the Category of Secularism in India: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the Ethics of Communal Representation, c. 1931.' In: Needham, A.D. and Rajan, R.S., (eds.), The Crisis of Secularism in India. Duke University Press, pp. 45-65.
Articles
Tejani , Shabnum (2007) 'Re-Considering Chronologies of Nationalism and Communalism: The Khilafat Movement in Sind and its Aftermath, 1919-1927.' South Asia Research, 27 (3). pp. 249-269.
Tejani , Shabnum (2007) 'Music, Mosques and Custom: Local Conflict and 'Communalism' in a Maharashtrian Weaving Town, 1893-1894.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 30 (2). pp. 223-40.
