Aiswarya Sanath


Aiswarya Sanath

Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: aiswaryasanath[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 0532-2271295(O)

Other Academic Achievements

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

1. “Crossing the Arabian Sea: South Asia–Arab World Connections through Mappila Migration” at the New Perspectives on South-Asian and Middle Eastern Connections in the 20th Century, French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo, in collaboration with the Orient- Institut Beirut, 9 – 10, May 2026.
2. “Othered at Home: Statelessness and Politics of Belonging in Post-Partition Malabar” at the Annual Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop, Seas of Change at the End of Empire, organized by the Department of History and Politics, Geneva Graduate Institute, in collaboration with the Foundation Pierre du Bois, held in Geneva on 5-6 June 2025.
3. “Temporal Afterlives of Partition: Slow Violence, Memory, and the Work of Repair” at From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory, and Everyday Resistance, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia, scheduled for March 2026 (online).
4. “A New Gaze on Indian Partition: Locating Archival Documents and Oral Histories from South India” at the Memoryscapes: Historiographies and Methodologies Around the 1947 Partition, National Institute of Technology Silchar, 14-15 December 2024
5. “The Undefined in Malabar: Citizenship and Loyalty in Post-partition India” at the World History Workshop, University of Cambridge, 24 October 2024
6. “Give me a chance to at least die as an Indian: The Insignificant Histories of the Indian partition of 1947” at the British Association for South Asian Studies Conference (BASAS) Annual Conference 2024, 9 – 11 September, 2024
7. “Partition’s Outsiders: Narratives from South India” at the 2022 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, 15 – 18 June, 2022 (online)
8. “Oral and Material Memory of Refugee Displacement: Situating the Memoryscapes of Indian partition of 1947” at the Doing Refugee History Webinar Series, University of Glasgow, 12 January 2022
9. “Situating the Past in the Present: Family Memories and Post-Memories of Indian Partition” at the workshop “Family Memories (Un)Spoken: Exploring Postmemory of Forced Migration at the University of Oulu, Finland. October 8, 2021(online)
10. “Memories of Partition: An Oral Historical Approach to Indian Partition, 1947” at the Oral Histories Association Annual Meeting, 14-19 October, 2021 (online)
11. “Children of Colonialism: Situating the Anglo-Indian Community in Postcolonial Kerala” at the Moving the Centre Conference Program, University of Glasgow, 4-6 August 2021 (online)
12. “Indian Partition of 1947: Remembrances and Amnesia in the Mnemonic Practices of India”, Memory Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference, “Convergences”, University of Warsaw, Poland, 5-9 July, 2021
13. • “Memories of Home/Un-Home: Indian Partition in Karnataka”, Memory Studies Association (MSA) Post-graduate Workshop “Intersections of Memory” Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, 1-2 July 2021(online)
14. Jallianwala Bagh: Event and its Memorialization in Fictional and Oral Narratives” at an Online Symposium on “Memory, Accountability and Representations of the Past”, Memory Studies Research Cluster, University of Bristol, 21-22, April 2021 (online)

Award and Honors:

1. Travel Grant, French Institute for Oriental Archaeology – Orient Institute Beirut, French Institute for Oriental Archaeology, Cairo, May 2026
2. Travel Grant, Pierre du Bois Foundation, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, June 2025
3. University Grants Commission – Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) Award, July 2016

Expert Lectures:

1. Delivered an invited lecture titled, “The Art and Method of Research in English Studies” at the Department of English Studies, Central University of Tamil Nadu,14 November 2025.
2. Invited lecture on Indian Partition and its Memoryscapes at ‘Poorv’ Providence Women’s College Conclave on ‘Research and Development’ in August 2021.
3. Resource person at a Seminar conducted by the English Department of Providence Women’s College Calicut on Rituparno Ghosh in June 2013.

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

1. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Taylor and Francis, Routledge) 2. South Asian Review (Taylor and Francis, Routledge)

Other Significant Achievements:

1. Winter School on the 1947 Partition, “Memoryscapes: Historiographies and Methodologies Around the 1947 Partition”, National Institute of Technology Silchar, 9 – 13 December, 2024
2. Winter School in Migration Studies, “South-Asian Perspectives on International Migration” conducted by the Centre for Migration and Mobility Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs, OP Jindal Global University (India) and Centre for Migration Studies, SIPG, North South University (Bangladesh), 23-27 January, 2023
3. Mnemonics Summer School (August 18, 2021- August 21, 2021) Aarhus University, Denmark (online)
4. Memory Studies Workshop conducted by the Centre for Memory Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 26- 30 April 2021 (online)
5. Memory Studies Association-University of Virginia Graduate Seminar Series, (September – December 2021) (online)
6. University Grants Commission Sponsored Short Term Course on Research Methodology for Research Scholars Offered by Centre for Professional Education in Higher Education, University of Delhi, September 17 – September 23, 2019