व्यक्तिगत एवं संपर्क विवरण

शिक्षा एवं अकादमिक योग्यता (Education)

• 1.पीएचडी, 1994 (Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Bamberg) 2. फ्रेंच और स्पानिश, एम.ए., 1989 (University of Bonn)

प्रकाशन एवं शोध कार्य (Publications)

Monographs

• 1.An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India, 1858-1895. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007.
• 2.Tage der Unzufriedenheit: Identität und Gesellschaftsbild in den Romanen muslimischer Hindischriftsteller (1965-1990). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag ("Days of Discontent: Identity and Society in the Novels of Muslim Hindi Writers," Bamberg, Univ. Diss., 1994, in German with an English summary).

Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes

• 1.(forthcoming) "Benares Beginnings: Print Modernity, Book Entrepreneurs, and Cross-Cultural Ventures in a Colonial Metropolis, 1820-1890." In: Abhijit Gupta and Swapan Chakravorty (eds), Founts of Knowledge(Book History in India, vol. 3). Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
• 2."A Qur'an for Every Household: Mass Printing and the Commercialization of Islamic Sacred Texts in Nineteenth-Century Lucknow." In: Nadia al-Bagdadi and Mushirul Hasan (eds), Sacred Texts and Print Culture: The Case of the Qur'an and the Bible of the Eastern Churches, 18th and 19th Centuries. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2013.
• 3."Through Subaltern Eyes: Shivaprasad at Simla, 1846-52." Summerhill: IIAS Review, vol. xviii (no.1), 2012: 23-33.
• 4."Knowledge in Context: Raja Shivaprasad (1823-95) as hybrid intellectual and people's educator." In Michael Dodson and Brian Hatcher (eds), Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia, Routledge 2012: 68-91.
• 5."Associational Culture and Civic Engagement in Colonial Lucknow: The Jalsah-e Tahzib." The Indian Economic and Social History Review 48.1, 2011: 1-33.
• 6."Translation, Book History, and the Afterlife of a Text: Growse's The Ramayan of Tulsi Das". In Maya Burger and Nicola Pozza (eds), India in Translation Through Hindi Literature. A Plurality of Voices. Bern 2010: 155-80.
• 7."Publishers as Patrons and the Commodification of Hindu Religious Texts in Nineteenth-Century North India." In Heidi Pauwels (ed.), Patronage and Popularisation, Pilgrimage and Procession: Channels of Transcultural Translation and Transmission in Early Modern South Asia. Papers in Honour of Monika Horstmann. Wiesbaden 2009: 189-203.
• 8."Makkhanlal's Sukhsagar (1846/47): The First Complete Version of the Bhagavata Purana in Modern Hindi Prose?." In: Indica et Tibetica. Festschrift für Michael Hahn. Zum 65. Geburtstag von Freunden und Schülern überreicht, herausgegeben von Konrad Klaus und Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Wien 2007: 491-506 (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde).
• 9."Hindi Publishing in the Heart of an Indo-Persian Cultural Metropolis: Lucknow's Newal Kishore Press (1858-1895)." In: Stuart Blackburn/Vasudha Dalmia (eds), India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. New Delhi 2004: 251-279.
• 10."Towards a New Hindu Woman: Educational ideals and female role models in Shivprasad's Vamamanrañjan (1856)." In: Ulrike Roesler and Jayandra Soni (eds), Aspects of the Female in Indian Culture. Marburg 2004: 167-179.
• 11."Politics, Public Issues and the Promotion of Urdu Literature: Avadh Akhbar, the First Urdu Daily in Northern India." The Annual of Urdu Studies, Vol. 18.1, 2003: 66-94.
• 12."Of Saintliness and Sex: the aged protagonist in Shrilal Shukla's Bisrampur ka sant (1998)." In: Th. Damsteegt (ed.), Heroes and Heritage: The Protagonist in Indian Literature and Film. Leiden 2003: 166-183.
• 13."Lucknow's Jalsa-i Tahzib: Urbane Elite, organisierte Handlungskompetenz und frühe 'associational culture' in Britisch-Indien." In: Harald Fischer-Tiné (ed.), Handeln und Verhandeln: Kolonialismus, transkulturelle Prozesse und Handlungskompetenz. Münster 2002: 51-73.
• 14."In search of the missing self: the hero as failure and the writer's self-reflexive quest in Manzur Ahtesham's Dastan-e lapata (1995)." In: Dirk W. Lönne (ed.), Tohfa-e-Dil. Festschrift Helmut Nespital. Reinbek 2001: 471-486.
• 15."Educating women, educating a daughter: Babu Navincandra Rai, Lakshmi-Sarasvati-samvad (1869) and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani." In Antony Copley (ed.), Gurus and their followers. Delhi 2000: 33-56.
• 16."Sex, Drugs, and the Importance of Being Modern: Pankaj Bishts Schriftstellerroman Lekin darvaza." In: Archív Orientální 65, 1997: 209-219.

Edited Volumes

• 1.Mauern und Fenster: Neue Erzählungen aus Indien. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag 2006 [an anthology of modern Hindi short stories in German translation].

Translations

• 1.(with Jason Grunebaum) "Doctor Crocodile." An Excerpt from 'The Tale of the Missing Man' by Manzoor Ahtesham. Pratilipi, March and June 2010.
• 2.(with Jason Grunebaum) Balmukund Gupt, "Shivashambhu's Letters to Lord Curzon." In: Shobna Nijhawan (ed.), Nationalism in the Vernacular. Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian Freedom. Delhi: Permanent Black 2010.

Work in Progress

• 1.(book manuscript) Times of Transition. Raja Shivaprasad 'Sitara-e Hind' [A biography of Raja Shivaprasad of Benares (1823-1895), public intellectual, man of letters, historian and eminent educator in 19th-century North India].
• 2.(with Jason Grunebaum) "The Tale of the Missing Man." A translation of Manzoor Ahtesham's Hindi novel Dastan-e Lapata (1995).
• 3.(Co-edited volume, with Francesca Orsini), Up to Date? Hindi literature in the Twenty-First Century.
• 4.(With Smita Gandotra), Pandit Gauridatt. Devrani Jethani ki kahani, or The Story of the Sisters-in-Law, translated with annotations and an introduction (under contract with Primus Books)

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