BIO-DATA
Name Dr (Ms.) Eugenia Yu. Vanina
Education Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University, 1975-
1981 (including one academic year of practical course in Delhi University)
M.A. with Hons. by Moscow University in 1981.
Postgraduate student of the same in 1981-1984.
Ph. D. Awarded by Moscow University in 1985.
D. Litt. Awarded by Institute of Oriental Studies in 2007
Present position Head of History & Culture Section, Centre for Indian Studies, Institute of
Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences); Member, Indo-Russian
Joint Commission on Cooperation in Social Sciences
Field of Research History and Culture of medieval and early modern India
Publications 4 books on Indian history in Russian.
English: Ideas and Society in India From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth
Centuries. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996 (2nd edition 2004)
Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth – Eighteenth
Centuries). Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2004; Medieval Indian
Mindscapes: Space, Time, Society, Man. Delhi: Primus Books, 2012.
Ed. and contrib. Indian History. A Russian Viewpoint. Delhi: ICHR/
Pragati Publications, 2003; Mind over Matter. Essays on Mentalities in
Medieval India. (Co-ed. D. N. Jha). Delhi: Tulika, 2009.
Around 200 research articles in Russian, Indian and British journals.
Teaching History of India – Oriental University, Russian State University for the
Humanities, Moscow State University, Moscow State Institute of
International Relations
Command of languages Hindi, English – freely
Signed – Eugenia Vanina SCOPUS ARTICLES
1. The Ardhakathanaka by Banarasi Das. A Socio- Cultural Study // Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1995). Third Series, Vol. V, № 2, pp. 211-224.
2. Madhavanala- Kamkandala by Alam: A Hindi Poem of Akbar` s Epoch // The Indian
Historical Review, Vol. XX, № 1-2 (1993-1994, published in 1996), pp. 66-77.
3. Russian Studies in Medieval History of India: An Insider` s View // Medieval History
Journal, October, 1999, Vol. 2, № 2, pp. 361-386.
4. India: The Whole and Its Parts in Historical Perspective // The Indian Historical Review,
Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1-2, 2003, p. 84-111.
5. Roads of (Mis) Understanding: European Travellers in India (Fifteenth to Seventeenth
Century)// Indian Historical Review. Vol. 40, No. 2, 2013, p. 267 – 284.
6. Monuments to Enemies? ‘Rajput’ Monuments in Mughal Capitals // Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 29, issue 4, 2019, p. 683 – 704
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186319000415
7. Princely Crime and Colonial Punishment: A Murder Case in Historical Investigation //
Indian Historical Review, vol. 47, issue 1, p. 7 – 20.
