Faculty Member
Prof. Shadab Bano
- Qualification
M.A , Ph.D
- Designation
Professor
- Thrust Area
Slavery in Medieval India, women and gender relations in medieval Indian history, women and Aligarh 'reform'
- Address
- Mobile
9897848939
- Email
shadab.bano@gmail.com
- Time Table
Shadab Bano is a Professor in the Department of History (Women's College Section), Aligarh
Muslim University. Her Ph.D. is on 'The Socio-Economic Dimensions
of Medieval Indian Slavery.' The thrust area of her research besides
slavery in Medieval India lies in women and gender relations in medieval
India, women and Muslim 'reform' in Colonial India, and Muslim women's education in contemporary India. She has published her monograph, Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE, London/New York, Routledge, 2025, and co- edited a volume with Panchali Ray, Teaching/Writing Resistance: Women's Studies in Contemporary Times, Hyderabad, Orient BlackSwan Private Ltd., 2024. Her articles are in Studies
in History, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, and Economic and Political
Weekly. She received two awards for best papers presented in the
sessions of Indian History Congress and has 15 papers published alone in
the Proceedings of Indian History Congress. She has served as a UGC
Trainer Associate in Capacity Building Workshops for Women Managers in
Higher Education. She has supervised research on women and gender in elite Muslim society in medieval north India, courtly culture and
socio-political life during the Sultanate, cities of Delhi under Sultans,
gender and identity construction in Muslim religious schools. She served as Joint Secretary of the Indian Association of Women's Studies
and coordinator of the IAWS Northern Regional Committee. She is presently a member of the Executive Committee of the Indian Association of Women's Studies.