(Associate Researcher, May 2024 – present)

Biography:

Jonathan Koshy Varghese is an Assistant Professor at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. His work involves the study of textual practices such as petitions, memorandums, colonial-state surveillance papers, confidential letters, and judicial statements as they came to be formulated during the course of the 19th and up to the mid-20th century. The aim of his project is to assimilate the textual practices of three archival resources – religious, colonial and judicial – in order to generate a critical, secular and essentially global history of the Suriyani (Christian) community of India.

Visiting Doctoral Scholar at CSH: October 2021 – April 2024

Publications:

1. Jonathan Koshy Varghese. 2024. Review of The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World by Nienke Boer, Durham and London: Duke University Press. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.
2. Varghese, Jonathan Koshy 2024. “‘Embodying’ the Intellectual: Edward Said, Public Sphere and the University.” Public Humanities 1:e28. doi: 10.1017/pub.2024.34.
3. Varghese, Jonathan Koshy. 2024. “Narrating the Slave-Caste: Protestant anxieties and textual productions in nineteenth century Travancore.” Human Rights and Indian Literary Communities, US: Routledge Working Paper/ book chapter in edited volume.
4. Varghese, Jonathan Koshy. 2018. “In Search of Ephrem the Syrian: Suriani and the Materiality of Faith”, Occasional Publication 89, Delhi. A lecture delivered at the India International Centre on 17th November (2017) and was published .