Dr. Ritika Sahu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityResearch Interests:
Archaeology of South Asia, Archaeology of North-Eastern India, Historical Archaeology, Heritage-making and Pubic Spaces.Date of Joining : Dec 4, 2019
Phone: +91-9899563689
Email: ritika.sahu@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Dr. Ritika Sahu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Cotton University, Assam. Prior to joining Cotton University, she taught at Miranda House, Ramanujan, Desbandhu and Maiteyi Colleges under University of Delhi.She was the ECR (Early Career Researcher), Re-writing World Archaeology Programme: Dialogues in the Global South, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, (funded by British Academy), South Asia division for the year 2021- 2022. She has completed her Ph.D., from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her work focusses on the intersection of material remain, its association with memory and identity creation in modern times. Her area of interest lies in Archaeology of South Asia- particularly North-Eastern region of India, Heritage-making and Pubic Spaces.
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Cotton University, 4th December 2019- till present
Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), Department of History, Miranda House, University of Delhi, 24th March 2017- 3rd December 2019
Assistant Professor (Guest), Department of History, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, 20th January 2017- 23rd March 2017
Assistant Professor (Guest), Department of History, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, 3rd August 2016- 26th April 2017
Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), Department of History, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, 20th July 2013- 24th December 2013
Research Projects
2022-2023 Exploring the Urban Parks of Kamrup (Metro), completed- In house project funded by Cotton University
Research Projects
| Sl. No | Name of the Project | Name of the Principal Investigator(PI) | Name of the Co-PI | Name of the Funding Agency | Type (Government/Non-Government) | Year | Funds Sanctioned (INR in lakhs) | Duration of the Project |
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| 1 | Exploring the Urban Parks of Kamrup (Metro) Status: Completed |
Ritika Sahu | Cotton University | In House | 2022 | 50000 | 1 year |
Research paper publications till 2021
1. “Places, Memory and Nostalgia: The abode of the royal Ahoms of Assam. Indian History
Congress”, in Proceeding of IHC 2012, New Delhi 2013, pp.1261-1267.
2. “Locating the ‘Neolithic’- A comparative study of ceramics of North East India and South East
Asia”, in Proceeding of IHC 2011, New Delhi 2012, pp.1179-1188.
Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)
1. “Memory, Power and Sacredness: Exploring the mortuary space of Charaideo”, in 50 years
after Daojali Hading- Emerging perspectives in the Archaeology of North-East India, essays
in honour of Tarun Chandra Sharma, edited by Tiatoshi Jamir and Manjil Hazarika, New
Delhi, 2014. pp. 283-291.
2. The excavated maidam: Towards an Archaeological Interpretation, in Archaeology in North -East India, Essays celebrating 150 years of research- Recent trends and Future Prospects, edited by Milan Kumar Chauley and Manjil Hazarika, Research India Press, 2020, pp.309-322
Awards
Awarded the UGC- NET JRF FELLOWSHIP in ARCHAEOLOGY held in June 2012
Other Information
Workshop attended:
- ECR Fellow,(June 2021-2022) Rewriting World Archaeology (South Asia division) mentoring programme under the mentorship of Professor Shahnaj Jahan of Jahangir University, Bangladesh and Professor Robin Coningham of Durham University
- Attended 5 days Workshop on 3D Landscapes, on 21st to 25th March 2022, organized by NIAS, Bengaluru
- Attended 2 days Rewriting World Archaeology Regional Workshop of South
Asia division on 13th -14 th January 2022, organized by Durham University, UK (online)
- Attended a workshop on Archaeobotany, Holocene environments and climate change, held at CHS, JNU, between 16th and 20th April 2018 by Professor Marco Madella, Department of Humanities, UniversitatPompeuFabra, Barcelona, as part of the European Commission Erasmus + KA107 International Credit Mobility Program
- Attended a workshop on College Heritage Volunteer Workshop, Organised by INTACH, Delhi Chapter on 16thJanuary 2018 at INTACH New Delhi
- Attended pottery and artefact drawing workshop held at Bhopal for 2 days in June –July 2010
Certificate courses:
- Completed Refresher course on Computational Social Sciences organised by HRDC, HCU from 30th January to 11th February 2023,(awarded grade A only)
- Completed Faculty Induction programme organised by HRDC, JNU from 6th September to 4th October 2021,(awarded grade A only)
Field Excavation/ Explorations:
- Organised and participated in ‘Monument Matters’, a one day field workshop on art and architecture of Sivasagar district, jointly organised by Department of Archaeology and INTACH, Kamrup on 13th March 2023
- Organised and participated in a two days departmental trip from Department of Archaeology to excavation sites at Charaideo conducted by Directorate of Archaeology, on 12th March 2023
- Organised and participated in a one day departmental field trip to Goalpara district, by Department of Archaeology, Cotton University on 7th December 2022
- Organised and participated in a Geo-heritage Walk to Nilachal Hills, Guwahati as part of International Geo-diversity Day Celebrations, jointly organised by INTACH, Kamrup Chapter and Department of Archaeology, Cotton University on 30th October 2022
- Organised and participated in a two days departmental trip from Department of Archaeology to excavation sites at Charaideo conducted by Directorate of Archaeology, on 30th-31st March 2022
- Organised and participated in a one day departmental field trip to Mayong, Morigaon district by Department of Archaeology, Cotton University on 30th October 2021
- Designed and conducted a documentation of the burials (maidams) in the protected archaeological site of Sukapha Nagar, Charaideo complex (CSDP), Sivasagar Assam, for 2 weeks in February 2014
- Participated in a field survey of Sarumaru complex, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh for a week in April 2013
- Worked as a Research Guide for International Rock Art Exhibition and Conference on Rock Art, conducted by IGNCA, New Delhi, from 6th December 2011 to 2nd January 2012
- Participated in a field survey of Rohana Khud, Western Uttar Pradesh for 2 days in January 2011
- Attended a group project on Ethno-Archaeology of potters in Indorkheda for a week in May 2010 under the supervision of Dr. Supriya Varma and Dr. Jaya Menon
- Attended 2 excavation seasons in Indorkheda in Western Uttar Pradesh in December 2008 and December-January 2009-10 under the supervision of Dr. Supriya Varma and Dr. Jaya Menon
Conference
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1. Parks and Past(s): Locating history in the Guwahati Smart City Plan, presented in an workshop on “Digital Infrastructures & Contemporary Urbanities.2.”
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2. Reign, Ruins and Remembrance: A Case Study of the Ahoms of Assam, India, presented in an international conference on “ Fragments, Traces and Memories”
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3. Parks and Past(s): Locating history in the Guwahati Smart City Plan, presented in an workshop on “Digital Infrastructures & Contemporary Urbanities”
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4. Interpreting the Maidams of Charaideo, Assam, presented in an International Seminar
on “Importance, Sacred Landscape and Value- based Management of the AhomMoidams of Charaideo in Assam (India)”
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5. Park(s), Public space(s) and the Past(s): A Study of Urban Parks of Sivasagar,
Assam“ at the international conference on “Interrupted Spaces, Engineered
Traditions”
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6. Past memories, Present Identities: A case of the Ahoms of Assam, presented in the 3rdinterdisciplinary conference, “Migration, Adaptation and Memory”
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7. Narratives of gender, death and social media in times of COVID: Methodological
experiments using ethnoarchaeological methods and text analytics, presented jointly
with Sambit Rath, in an international virtual conference on “Contagion narratives:
Society, Culture and Ecology in Global South”,
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8. Statues, structures and sites: A case study of the Ahoms of Assam. Presented a paper
in a 2 days National Seminar “Excursions in History: Power and contestations in thehistorical writings on North-East India
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9. Adoring the landscape: A study of the pukhuris of Assam (13TH-19TH centuries)
AD.Presented a paper in Indian History Congress
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10. Places, Memory and Nostalgia: The abode of the royal Ahoms of Assam. Presented apaper in Indian History Congress
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11. In search of an identity-Exploring the Tai-Ahom identity through historical narratives.
Presented a paper in an international seminar on ‘Ethnicity, identity and Literature
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12. Locating the ‘Neolithic’- A comparative study of ceramics of North East India andSouth East Asia- paper presented in Indian History Congress, held on
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13. Study of a royal burial site in ‘Charaideo’ Assam (13th-18th century)- An
archaeological perspective
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Ritika Sahu
Workshop
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1. Mounds as ‘Monuments’: Exploring the maidams of the Ahoms. Presented a paper in
an International Workshop on Monumentality “Hierarchy and Balance: role ofmonumentality in European and North-East Indian landscapes”
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2. 2 days Rewriting World Archaeology Regional Workshop of SouthAsia division
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