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Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth

Independent Scholar, India

Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth is a historian from South India and the author of ‘Jumbos and Jumping Devils: A Social History of Indian Circus’ (Oxford University Press, 2020). She holds a PhD in History from the University of Delhi. She has been a Fulbright-Nehru fellow stint with Yale University, Mellon-SSRC Transregional research fellow with University of the Witwatersrand and a Writing fellow with Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. Her monograph, The Jumping Devils: A Tale of Circus Bodies has been published in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series. Her writings have appeared, amongst others, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Conservation and Society, Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Social Science Probings. She has been awarded the Swedish South Asia Studies Network fellowship in Lund University, Sweden, Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, UK, Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Research Fellowship, New Delhi and the Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust Ph.D Fellowship from Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India. Presently, she is a Research Fellow with the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden University and is writing a book on the transnational histories of Indian circus.

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