Dr Sunil Kumar : SOAS

Overview

Department of History

(Reader in the History of Mediaeval India)

History of medieval South India: courtly culture in early medieval India

Contact Details

Name:: Dr Sunil Kumar
Email address:: sk114@soas.ac.uk
Telephone:: 020 7898 4625
Fax:: 020 7898 4699
Address:: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:: 309
Office Hours:: Mondays 11:30 – 13:00 and by appointment

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PhD Affiliations

Managing Editor, Indian Economic and Social History Review;
Member, Indian History Congress

Interests / Disciplines

My research interests focus on the social, political and cultural history of the pre-Mughal period (1200-1550). They cover questions relating to the history of the Muslim community, political culture and governance, the making of urban societies, monumental architecture and landscape archaeology.

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Regional Expertise

South Asia

Country Expertise

India

Languages

Publications

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Authored Books

Kumar, Sunil (2007) The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286. Delhi: Permanent Black.

Kumar, Sunil (2002) The Present in Delhi’s Pasts. Delhi: Three Essays Collective.

Edited Books

Kumar, Sunil and Faruqui, Munis and Eaton, Richard M. and Gilmartin, David, eds. (2009) Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honour of John F. Richards, Special Issue of Modern Asian Studies. 43(1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kumar, Sunil, ed. (2008) Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples? Readings on History and Temple Desecration in Medieval India. Delhi: Three Essays Press.

Kumar, Sunil and Chakrabarti, Kunal, eds. (2007) Our Pasts II: Social Science Text Book in History for Class VII. Delhi: NCERT.

Chapters in Books

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Delhi.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Forthcoming)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'The Pir’s barakat and the Servitor’s Ardour: the contrasting history of two Sufi shrines in Delhi.' In: Collected Essays on Delhi. Delhi: Penguin and Ravi Dayal. (Forthcoming)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Reflections on the Past and Present of two Sufi Shrines in Delhi.' In: Kumar, Sunil, (ed.), The Present in Delhi’s Pasts. Delhi: Three Essays Collective. 2nd ed.. (Forthcoming)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Sites of Power and Resistance: a reading of Sultanate Monumental Architecture and Sufi discourse.' In: Brown, Rebecca and Deborah, Hutton, (eds.), Blackwell’s Companion to Art. Blackwell. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Kingship, Courts, and Capitals on the Eastern Frontier: the Delhi Sultanate in the 13th and 14th centuries.' In: Hartung, Jan-Peter and Fuess, Albrecht, (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World. London: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Delhi Sultanate.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Khalaji Dynasty.' In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Leiden: E.J.Brill. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Bandagani and Naukari: Studying transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, 13th-16th centuries.' In: Orsini, F., (ed.), After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in fifteenth century North India. . (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2008) 'Politics, the Muslim Community and Hindu-Muslim Relations Reconsidered: North India in the early Thirteenth century.' In: Datta, Rajat, (ed.), Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth century: Essays for Harbans Mukhia. Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 139-167.

Kumar, Sunil (2008) 'Juzjani, Minhaj-i Siraj.' In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) 'Raziyya, Sultan.' In: Encyclopaedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 585-586.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) 'Balancing Autonomy with Service: Frontier Military Commanders and their Relations with the Delhi Sultans in the 13th and 14th centuries.' In: Singh, Navtej, (ed.), Punjab History Conference, Thirty-ninth session, March 16-18, 2007 : proceedings. Patiala: Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, pp. 86-100.

Kumar, Sunil (2006) 'Service, Status and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.' In: Eaton, Richard M. and Chatterjee, Indrani, (eds.), Slavery in Indian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 83-114.

Kumar, Sunil (2006) 'Mongols and Nomadic Empires, 13th-14th Centuries.' In: Gupta, Narayani, (ed.), NCERT Class XI, Text-book on World History. Delhi: NCERT.

Kumar, Sunil (2001) 'Qutb and Modern Memory.' In: Kaul, Suvir, (ed.), Partitions of Memory. Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 140-182.

Kumar, Sunil (2000) 'Assertions of Authority: a Study of the Discursive Statements of Two Sultans of Delhi—‘Ala al-Din Khalaji and Nizam al-Din Auliya.' In: Alam, Muzaffar and Delvoye, Francoise ‘Nalini’ and Gaborieau, Marc, (eds.), The Making of Indo-Persian Culture: Indian and French Studies. Delhi: Manohar, pp. 37-65.

Kumar, Sunil (1999) 'Perceiving ‘your’ Landscape: Neighbourhood Settlements and the Hauz-i Rānī.' In: Layton, R. and Ucko, P., (eds.), Perceiving Landscape. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 159-174.