Assistant Professor,
Hyderabad Campus,
School of Gender Studies
Coordinator
Students' Affairs
Qualification
M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Contact
neetha.rani[at]tiss[dot]edu
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Turkayamjal,
Hyderabad
Neetha Rani has done her Ph.D from University of Hyderabad. Her doctoral thesis focused on the Delhi Durbars of colonial era exploring how political rituals played a key role in sustaining British rule in India. Through an evaluation of the various ceremonies observed in the Durbars, she investigates the ideological and political underpinnings on which the Durbars were planted, choreographed and executed; how those ideological contours went a long in fashioning the British interaction with the native princes of India and the rest of the natives.
Her areas of interests are Modern Indian History, World History, Colonialism and Contemporary History of India.
Spectacles of Empire: The Coronation Durbar and Imperial Hunt Conjoined, International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 4, No. 1, 2017.
Rani, Neetha (2022). Unmasking Gender, Caste and Patriarchy in the Great Indian Kitchen. In Mohan, D & Achuth, A (Eds.), Reimagining Marginality: Exploitation, Experience, Expression (pp.171-188), New Delhi: Authors Press.
As Second co-PI for the project Strengthening State Responsiveness for Preventing Gender-based Violence: Towards a State-Civil Society-Community Framework for Kerala, This project is funded by World Bank. (Status- Ongoing)
Undergraduate Courses
History: Nature and Purpose
State and the People (For Guwahati Campus also)
Insights from Indian History
Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
History of Medieval India (Guwahati Campus)
History of Modern India (Guwahati Campus)
Introduction to Historical Thoughts (Mumbai Campus)
MA Courses
Gender and Education
Introduction to Women's Studies
Women's Movements: Contemporary Forms of Social Resistance