Position:

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / St Antony's College

Email:

aparna.kapadia@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Pre and early modern literary and political histories of India
• Religion and society in pre and early modern India
• Regional traditions of South Asia, specifically western India 
• History and anthropology of Gujarat

Recent Publications:

• Kapadia, Aparna, ‘Kachchh: More Sindh than Gujarat?’, review of Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India by Farhana Ibrahim (New Delhi, 2009) in The Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 46, no. 13, March 26-April 01, 2011, pp. 33-36.
• Kapadia, Aparna, ‘Universal Poet, Local Kings: Sanskrit, the Rhetoric of Kingship and Local Kingdoms in Gujarat’ in Orsini, Francesca and Samira Sheikh, eds, After Timur Left: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in Fifteenth-century North India, OUP, New Delhi (forthcoming).
• Simpson, Edward and Aparna Kapadia, eds, The Idea of Gujarat: History, Ethnography and Text, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010.
• Kapadia, Aparna, ‘Alexander Forbes and the Making of a Regional History,’ in
  Simpson, Edward and Aparna Kapadia, eds, The Idea of Gujarat: History, Ethnography and Text, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010.
• Kapadia, Aparna, ‘What Makes the Head Turn: The Narratives of Kānhaḍade and the Dynamics of Legitimacy in Western India’ in SAGAR, vol. 18, Spring 2008, pp. 87-100.