Shashi Joshi Author & Editor

Shashi Joshi is former Senior Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. A PhD in History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr Joshi began her career as a senior lecturer in History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has also been a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. From 1983 to 1987, she was co-director of the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’—a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Dr Joshi has authored a book, The Last Durbar: A Dramatic Presentation of the Division of British India, published in India and Pakistan simultaneously in 2006. She has authored Religion, Mission and Caste: Essays in the History of Christanity in India (2008). Presently, she is finalising the manuscript for another book, ‘In Gandhi’s Arc: Charles Andrews and Gandhi’, to be published in 2012. Bhagwan Josh is Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Besides writing for scholarly journals, he has contributed essays to many edited books. He is one of the project committee members of ‘Europe–South Asia Maritime Heritage Project’. He has also been co-director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project on the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’.