Dr. Prachi Gupta is assistant professor at School of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at IILM University, Gurugram. She has been awarded her doctorate degree in Political Studies at Center for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2022. She has completed her Mphil in Political Studies at Center for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has done her graduation in political science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women at Delhi University. She was awarded the UGC-SRF/JRF in 2016. The title of her PhD thesis is “Language, Religion and the Nation: A Critical Analysis of the Works of Ramchandra Shukla and Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.”
The areas of her teaching expertise are Indian Political Thought, Political Theory, Indian Government and Politics and Gender Studies. The areas of her research interest are Indian Political Thought and Political Theory. She has presented in several national and international conferences. She has written for Scroll.in on the subject of Hindi Language and Politics. At IILM, she is teaching Gender Dynamics in International Relations and Political Theory.
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D., Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2022)
– Topic: Language, Religion and the Nation: A Critical Analysis of the Works of Ramchandra Shukla and Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2017)
– Subject: Political Studies (73.4%)
MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2015)
– Subject: Political Studies (75%)
BA (Hons), Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi (2013)
– Subject: Political Studies (Division I)
Publications
Gupta, P., 2023. The many, varying ideas of India’s ‘national’ language. [online] Scroll.in.
Gupta, P., 2022. What today’s Hindi supremacists could learn from a ‘Hinglish’ poem by ‘the father of modern Hindi’. [online] Scroll.in.
Gupta, Prachi. “The Hindi Language and the Imagination of the Indian Nation: Ramchandra Shukla’s Construction of Indian Civilization.” In Nationalism and the Postcolonial, pp. 57-72. Brill, 2021.
Conferences/Presentations
Presented at the “The Past, Present, and Future of Nation States” titled International Conference organized by Southern New Hampshire University on October 13, 2023.
Discussant at the book discussion of Manindra Nath Thakur’s book titled as ‘Gyan ki Rajneeti’ organized by JNU Academic on August 13, 2022.
Presented at the ‘Nationalism and Irony Conference’ at Sheffield Hallam University, September 9, 2022. The title of the paper was, “Linking ‘One’s Own Language’ and the Indian Nation: The Irony of Hindi language and Nationalism in the Works of Bharatendu Harishchandra”.
Discussant at Centre For Political Studies’ Young Scholars’ Conference, “Modernity and Politics in India”, 2021.
Participated in The International South Asian Studies Summer School, organized by The Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University in Lithuania, 19-25 August, 2019.
Presented at Centre For Political Studies’ Young Scholars’ Conference, “State and Democratic Politics in India”, February, 2019.
Presented at Law and Social Science Network conference (LASSnet) in December, 2016. The title of the paper was, “Creating evidence: Reading the social context in judgements”.
Participated in a Ten Day Research Methodology workshop organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Guwahati, 2016.
Attended a two months workshop at the Centre for the study of Developing Societies (CSDS), “Researching the Contemporary”, 2016.
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