Riya Gupta is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her area of research is Medieval Indian History and her work aims to establish a microhistorical perspective on Mughal bureaucracy or mansabdari, focusing particularly on the socio-cultural life of the lowest cadre. She is also interested in regional histories and her article titled ‘Pre-Modern Cosmopolitanism: A Challenge to Ladakh’s ‘Tibetanness” was recently published in Mapping India. Transitions and Transformations: 18th-19th Century, eds. Sutapa Dutta and Nilanjana Mukherjee, London and New York: Routledge, 2020. |
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Anna Maria Cimitile
Anna Maria Cimitile is a Professor of English literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her fields of research range from Shakespeare, early modern English literature and culture to contemporary anglophone literature, cinema and the visual arts. Interested in the history of ideas, material culture and microhistory, more recently she has reflected on the possibility of researching early modern book history with a microhistorical approach.