Exploring Power and Authority in Indian History Across the Ages

Vijaya Ramadas Mandala is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hyderabad in India. He earned his PhD in History from The University of Manchester in the UK and was awarded the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Award from the Research Councils UK, now UKRI. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Junior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, India. Vijaya Ramadas is a historian who has published in the field of Indian history and British imperial and commonwealth history, including an acclaimed book, "Shooting a Tiger: Big Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India", with OUP. Some of the notable titles of his research articles include: "Colonialism and the Spatial Dimension of Play - Education and the Creation of Middle-Class Space at Schools and Colleges in Modern India (1790-1910)", published in The Historian (2018), "The Raj and the Paradoxes of Wildlife Conservation: British Attitudes and Expediencies" featured in The Historical Journal (2015), "The Making and Unmaking of the Gonds: History of Hunting Mores in Colonial India" published in Global Environment (2017), and "Tiger Huntresses in the Company Raj: Environmentalism and exotic imaginings of Wildlife, 1830–45" which was published in the International Review of Environmental History (2019).

• Changing Perception of Power and Authority in Ancient India: A Historiographical Approach.- Exploring the Dynamics of Power and Authority in Mughal Architecture.- Power and Contestation in a Period of Turmoil: Shifting Gender Relations and the Rise of the Khwājasarās in Eighteenth-Century North India.- Sikka wa Siyāsaṭ: Medieval Indian Coins— A Prerequisite Medium to Assert Power and Authority.- Powers of Caste-Based Moral Codes and their Interaction with the Legal Framework in Colonial Malabar.- Crime, Justice, and Everyday Lives: A Journey Through Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Novels in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.- Taxing Intoxication and Nudging Consumption: A Historical Assessment of the British Empire's Nineteenth-Century Drug Policies in the Madras Presidency.- The ‘Unholy’ Trinity: Syndicate of the Colonial State, Capitalists, and the Police; Repression and Corporate Policing of Working-Class Movement in late colonial Bengal (1930-1947).- Unpacking the Networks Inside the Prison through Auto/Biographical Accounts of Krishna Nehru Hutheesing.- Janmashashon: Sexology, Birth Control and the Nation.- Financial Imperialism and British Colonial Power in India: An Interwar History of Economic Strategies and Fallouts.- Disciplining the Natives to the Natives Disciplining Themselves: The Scout Movement in Travancore Princely State.- Uncovering the Powers Behind Wildlife Preservation in Post-Colonial India: A Critical Evaluation of Constitutional and Legislative Authority in Implementing India’s Wildlife Acts.