Dr. Shakir Ul Hassan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Medieval History, FSS, Department of History, University of Delhi, North Campus, New Delhi.
Early Modern Perso-Sanskrit archive, Local history, Hagiographies of Rishis, Mughal and Sikh court chronicles, art of premodern Translation, Pre-modern Paper-making and Book-making in South Asia and Orientalism and the Making of History of Kashmir
Dr. Shakir ul Hassan is an Assistant Professor at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He brings over 8 years of teaching experience from various universities and institutes. His research interests are focused on early Modern Perso-Sanskrit archive especially chronicles and biographies from the region of Kashmir. He specializes in the textual analysis of the narratives of conquests and catastrophe in the early modern South Asia. He has contributed to many journals, published book-chapters and presented in several conferences. He teaches major courses on Colonial Modernity in South Asia and local responses to it.
Papers Published
(SCI/Scopus Indexed)
- Shakir ul Hassan, ‘Perso-Sanskrit Narratives of the Mughal’s Tas???r-i-Kashmir: Phased Opening, Ecology and Literary Strategies. Medieval History Journal, 2024 Sage. DOI: 10.1177/09719458221138444
Other International Publications
- Shakir ul Hassan, Man-Nature Relationship in South Asia’, pp. 211-232, in M. Y. Bhatt et al., Energy Economics and the Environment: Conversation, Preservation and Sustainability (New Delhi: Sage, 2020).
- Shakir ul Hassan, ‘Caliphate Estate: Ummayads and Abbasids’, in Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World, IGNOU, BHIC-104, UNIT 14, pp. 267-298, (New Delhi, 2019).
- Shakir ul Hassan, ‘Islamic Society: Rise and Spread of Sects’, in Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World, IGNOU, BHIC-104, UNIT 15, pp. 299-323, (New Delhi, 2019).
International Conferences
- Shakir ul Hassan, ‘Paper, Literacy and Economy of Bookmaking in Kashmir c.1500-1900’ in Young Researchers’ Indo-Persian Workshop: Writing in the Indo-Persian World, May, 23 & 24, 2024 -- EHESS Marseille Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France (Online).
- Shakir ul Hassan, ‘Paper, Sult??nate and the Textualization of ????s in Early Modern Kashmir’ The 21st South Asian Graduate Students Conference, University of Chicago, Illinois, 7 & 8th March, 2024.
- Shakir ul Hassan, “Writing a saw?ni? (autobiography) in the Seventeenth Century: Ch?durah’s T?ri??-i-Kashmir”, New Delhi, Ambedkar University, 2022.
- Shakir ul Hassan, ‘The Sh?h-n?ma Kashmir: Patronage Networks and New Literary Formation in the Eighteenth-century Kashmir’ in a Seminar ‘Historical Research in the Time of the Pandemic’ (29-30th November 2021). New Delhi. University of Delhi (Online).
- Shakir ul Hassan, “Literary Cultures in Kashmir: Interactions in Sanskrit and Persian Cosmopolitanism from 14th to 16th Century” (2019) Patiala (Punjab) South Asian History Conference, Punjabi University.
- Shakir ul Hassan, “Sanskrit, Kashmiri and Persian Literary Cultures from 14th to 16th century: Zain?-trangin?, Noorn?ma and Ta?r???-i-Kashmir”. Annual Research Scholar’s Conference. New Delhi. University of Delhi.
