Narayani Gupta
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Narayani Gupta | |
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| Born | Narayani Menon November 13, 1942 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | History of Delhi |
| Board member of | Member, Delhi Urban Arts Commission under Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs |
| Spouse | Partha Sarathi Gupta |
| Children | Himadri Shikhar Gupta(Son), Niharika Gupta(Daughter) |
| Relatives | Ashoka Gupta (Mother-in-Law), MGK Menon (Uncle), Sarada Menon (Aunt) |
| Awards | Homi Bhabha Fellowship (1982), UGC Career Award (1992) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA , MA, PhD |
| Alma mater | Indraprastha College for Women[1] (BA) Somerville College, Oxford (MA) Delhi University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Prof B.B. Misra Prof R.L. Shukla |
| Influences | Richard Cobb Janet Abu-Lughod |
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| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | Urban History |
| School or tradition | Liberalism |
| Main interests | Architectural Conservation |
| Notable works | Delhi between Two Empires 1803-1931: Society, Government and Urban Growth The Painter's Eye: Egron Lundgren and India (Co-authored) Beato's Delhi: 1857 and Beyond (Co-authored) Delhi, Its Monuments and History (updated and annotated) |
Narayani Gupta (13 November 1942) is an Indian historian, author, and professor (retired) at the at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. She taught at Indraprastha College from 1966 before joining Jamia Millia Islamia University in 1988. From 1991 to 1995, she taught at the TVB School of Habitat Studies.
She is the author of numerous influential works on urban history, particularly the history of Delhi [2]. Her book, Delhi between Two Empires, based on her doctoral thesis was recognised by reviewers as 'groundbreaking'. She is a founder-member and former president (1986-88) of the Conservation Society of Delhi[3] which emerged out of the Environment Group led by people like Kamaladevi Chattopadhyayin 1984. She was a member of Delhi's Urban Art Commission from 1992 to 1995, and again from 2004 to 2007. From 2004 to 2012, she was associated with the Indian National Trust for Cultural Heritage[4][5], as consultant on their Heritage Education programmes and their documentation centre.
Academic Contributions
Since the 1980s, Dr Gupta has contributed to school education by writing history books for the National Book Trust and Orient Longman, and has most recently (in 2019) edited a series of books[6][7] on UNESCO world heritage sites. She headed the committee on middle school social science textbooks for the Delhi SCERT in 2002-04, was a member of NCERT's National Focus Group on Teaching of Social Sciences[8], and editor of the History textbook for Class 11 (2005).
Activism and Writing
She is a columnist for newspapers and online magazines like Indian Express[9], Hindu, Times of India[10] etc and writes about historical matters and contemporary history.
She remains actively engaged with the conservation of Delhi's monuments and urban landscape[11][12]. She is one of the people who took a stand on the issue of the redevelopment of Central Vista and filed a case in Supreme Court against it.
Biography
She is wife of noted historian Prof Partha Sarathi Gupta and the third daughter of Narayani Menon and VKR Menon, an Indian Civil Services officer in Bihar state of British India. Growing up in Delhi after 1946, she could observe the rapid changes in the social fabric post-Partition and the planning of Independent India. These were to feed into her recreation of urban pasts.
References
- ^ http://www.ipcollege.ac.in/Viewtopics.aspx?MenuId=ALUMNAE_CORNER_413
- ^ https://dhaaramagazine.in/2021/03/31/changing-landscapes-and-preservation-of-delhis-spaces-an-interview-with-prof-narayani-gupta/
- ^ http://www.indiaprofile.com/heritage/conservationsociety-delhi.htm
- ^ http://documentationcentre.intach.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Annual-Report-2015-16-a.pdf
- ^ https://thefoundationschool.edu.in/teacher-workshop-on-trees-by-intach
- ^ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51819848-qutb-minar
- ^ https://www.amazon.in/Qutb-Minar-Story-Narayani-Gupta/dp/9385360507
- ^ https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/focus-group/social_sciencel.pdf
- ^ https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/narayani-gupta/
- ^ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/students-map-lodhi-estate-heritage/articleshow/24402411.cms
- ^ https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/chandni-chowk-development-delhi-6007795/
- ^ https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/delhi-central-vista-redevelopment-project-6274751/
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Category:20th-century Indian historians
Category:Writers from Delhi
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Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
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Category:21st-century Indian historians
Category:Writers from Delhi