Arundhati Virmani (born 1957) is an Indian historian. She was a reader in history at
Delhi University
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
until 1992. She teaches at the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...
in
Marseille
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.
Biography
Arundhati Virmani was born in
New Delhi
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, on 26 June 1957. She did her schooling from
Lady Irwin School and
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi.
She graduated with a degree in history from
Indraprastha College
Indraprastha College for Women, also known as Indraprastha College or IP College ( hi, इंद्रप्रस्थ महिला महाविद्यालय), is the oldest women's college in Delhi. Established in 1924, it is a con ...
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As a student of
Delhi University
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
, she obtained a French fellowship in 1981 to prepare her Ph.D. thesis in French history at the Sorbonne in Paris. Under the supervision of ''
Maurice Agulhon'', Professor at the
Collège de France
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, she studied the politicization of French rural society after the Restoration and before the institution of male universal suffrage under the Second Republic in 1848. She defended her thesis in September 1984. In 1991, she married ''
Jean Boutier
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'' and moved to France. She studied Odissi dance with
Madhavi Mudgal
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Academic career
She began her teaching career at
Jesus and Mary College
Jesus and Mary College (JMC) is a women-only college of the University of Delhi located in New Delhi, India. The college offers bachelor's degrees in Commerce, Arts, and Mathematics. The college offers honors degrees in Elementary Education, H ...
and later taught at
Delhi University
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.
[ She was the head of the History section of the School of Correspondence Courses, where she participated in adult education and Long-Distance teaching. Then Reader in European History at the History Department, she taught modern French and European History. In Marseille she taught at Université Paul Cézanne, Euromed-Marseille Business School and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Since then, her research focused on the colonial period in India, especially the 20th Century; she is also an analyst of the current transformations of Indian society.
She has published several books and many papers in collective works and scientific journals (in England, France and Italy). She has lectured on colonial Indian history in different universities and academic institutions (Paris, Ithaca (USA), London, Berlin, Bologna, Florence, New Delhi, New York, Ann Arbor ... ). She is a research fellow at th]
Centre Norbert Elias
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Virmani has been engaged in consultancy work, specializing in Indo-French intercultural training since 2000. She is a recognized expert for the "Association pour le Progrès du Management". She is interested in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an Indian perspective.
Published works
Known for her 2008 book, ''A National Flag for India. Rituals, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sentiment'', about which noted writer Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write ''Train to Pakistan'' in 1956 (made ...
wrote: "She has done meticulous research on the subject and put life into what may appear at first sight as a footnote in a book on Indian history.".
*''L'Inde, une puissance en mutation'', Paris, La Documentation française, 2001
*''India, 1900-1947. Un Britannique au cœur du Raj'', Paris, Autrement, 2002 (about Sir Malcolm Lyall Darling
Sir Malcolm Lyall Darling (10 December 1880 – 1 January 1969) was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) who was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Punjab, British India, in 1904. Having held numerous other posts, he became Financia ...
(1880–1969), a famous British administrator in India, specialist of land reform and cooperative movement)
*"A National Affair : Nude Bharatmata," ''Passato e Presente'', 2006, n°76
*"Roman de voyage, récit de voyage. L’Inde de Jules Verne, de Pierre Loti et d’Edward M. Forster", 2006, in Alain Guillemain (ed.), ''A la recherche du meilleur des mondes. Littérature et sciences sociales'', Paris, Harmattan
*"Réflexions d’une hindoue convertie au christianisme : Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) et l’hindouisme", in Daniel Tollet (ed.), ''La religion que j’ai quittée'', Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2007
*"The Place of Religious Identity in a Modern Nation State – Three Indian Responses", ''Annuaire de Droits et de Religion'', juillet 2008
*''A National Flag for India. Rituals, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sentiment'', New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2008. .
*''Atlas historique de l'Inde : du VIe siècle av. J.-C. au XXIe siècle'', Paris, Autrement, 2012.
*''Political Aesthetics : Culture, Critique and the Everyday'', New-York, Routledge, 2015.
*Translation of Edward P. Thompson, ''Les usages de la coutume. Traditions et résistances populaires en Angleterre, XVIIe-XIXe siècles'', Paris, coll. Hautes Études, Le Seuil-Gallimard-Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2015 (with Jean Boutier)
*''Les Indiens. Voix multiples'', Paris, Ateliers Henry Dougier, 2016. (Prize "Asia" 2015 of the Association of Francophone Writers (Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française-ADELF)
References
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