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Srinivas Reddy

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Srinivas Reddy

Guest Professor, Humanities

  • BA: Brown University, 1998
  • MA: University of California, Berkeley, 2005
  • PhD: University of California, Berkeley, 2011

Email: srinivas -AT- iitgn.ac.in



  • Selected Publications

    1. Books

    • Illuminating Worlds: Anthology of Classical Indian Literature. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2024.

    • Raya: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara. New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2020.

    • The Cloud Message: Kālidāsa’s Meghadūtam. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2017.

    • The Dancer & The King: Kālidāsa’s Mālavikāgnimitram. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2014.

    • Giver of the Worn Garland: Sri Krishnadevaraya’s Āmuktamālyada. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2010.


      2. BOOK CHAPTERS

    • “The Dispersion of Honey: Telugu in the Diaspora” The People’s Linguistic Survey of India, PLSI Vol. 47, ed. Ganesh Devy. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2021.

    • “Seven Seas and an Ocean of Wisdom: An Indian Episteme for the Indian Ocean” in Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World. ed. Himanshu Prabha Ray. Routledge, 2021.

    • “Stallions of the Indian Ocean” in Researching Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond. eds., Philipp Schorch, Martin Saxer and Marlen Elders. UCL Press, 2020.


      3. JOURNAL ARTICLES

    • “Disrupting Mughal Imperialism: Piracy and Plunder on the Indian Ocean” Asian Review of World Histories, Volume 8, Issue 1, Feb 2020.

    • “Re-envisioning engineering education in India: IIT Gandhinagar’s Foundation Programme” (co-authored, S.K. Jain) Current Science, July 2018, 115 (02), pp. 217-221.

    • “A Hundred Grains of Rice: Regional Mahābhārata Stories in Performance” The South Asianist: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol 5, No 1 (2017), pp. 237-248.

    • “Authority, Critique, and Revision in the Sanskrit Music-Theoretic Tradition: Re-reading the Svara-mela kalānidhi” (co-authored, M. Rahaim and L. Christensen) Asian Music 46 (1) January 2015, pp. 39-77.

  • Work Experience

    • Guest Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (July 2018 to present)
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (Aug 2017 to May 2024)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Mar 2012 to May 2017)
    • Visiting Lecturer, Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Fall 2011)