Dr Franziska Roy

2003 - 2007

Magister and Law Studies at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin:
- South Asian History and Culture with special focus on Islamic studies of the non-Arabic regions (Islamwissenschaften des nicht-arabischen Raumes).

- Philosophy/ Modern and Contemporary History (Neuere und Neueste Geschichte)

- Law (additional course of studies, Staatsexamen)

2007

Re-enrolment in Bachelor's programme ‘Asian and African History’ with special focus on South Asia.

2007 - 2008

Masters programme: ‘Historical Research Methods’ at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, concluded with Distinction

2008 - 2013

PhD ‘Torchbearers of Progress: Youth, Volunteer organisation and National Discipline in India, c. 1918-1947’, Department of History, University of Warwick (funded by the Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship)

2014 - present

Postdoc project at ZMO

forhcoming
December
2015

With Ali Raza, „Playing the Game of Blood“: Paramilitary Organisations in Interwar India’, accepted for publication in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Special Issue, forthcoming, December 2015).

2015

With Katrin Bromber, Paolo Gaibazzi, Abdoulaye Sounaye and Julian Tadesse: ‘The Possibilities are Endless’ – Progress and the Taming of Contingency” (published online as a ZMO working paper, 2015).

2015

With Ali Raza and Benjamin Zachariah (eds), The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds and World Views, 1917-39, New Delhi: Sage, 2015.

- ‘International engagements, national discipline: Youth and Volunteer Movements in South Asia c. 1919-1939’, in: Ali Raza et al (eds), The Internationalist Moment, pp. 150 – 187.

- With Ali Raza and Benjamin Zachariah, ‘Introduction’ in: Ali Raza et al, (eds), The Internationalist Moment, pp. Xi-Xli.

2014

With Heike Liebau and Ravi Ahuja (eds), Soldat Ram Singh und der Kaiser. Indische Kriegsgefangene in deutschen Propagandalagern 1914-1918, Draupadi, Heidelberg, 2014 (revised German edition of ‘When the War Began’).

2014

With Heike Liebau, ‘Achillesferse und Kanonenfutter - Indische Weltkriegsgefangene in Deutschland im I. Weltkrieg(1914-1918)’, Südasien - Zeitschrift des Südasienbüro e.V., Juli/August 2014 (based on introduction for Soldat Ram Singh und der Kaiser).

2014

With Heike Liebau and Ravi Ahuja (eds), Soldat Ram Singh und der Kaiser. Indische Kriegsgefangene in deutschen Propagandalagern 1914-1918, Draupadi, Heidelberg, 2014 (revised German edition of ‘When the War Began’).

- ‘Zwischen Zwangsarbeit und „Kollaboration“. Südasiatische Zivilgefangene in deutschen Kriegsgefangenenlagern’, in: Franziska Roy, Heike Liebau and Ravi Ahuja (eds), Soldat Ram Singh und der Kaiser, pp. 69-107.

- With Heike Liebau, ‘Einleitung“, in: Franziska Roy, Heike Liebau and (eds), Soldat Ram Singh und der Kaiser, pp. 9-24.

2013

With Benjamin Zachariah, ‘Meerut and a Hanging: “Young India”, Popular Socialism, and the Dynamics of Imperialism’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 33, Number 3, 2013 (Special Issue), pp. 360-377.

2011

With Heike Liebau, Ravi Ahuja (eds), When the war began, we heard of several kings - Prisoners of War in First World War Germany, Social Science Press, Delhi, 2011.

- ‘South Asian Civilian Prisoners of War in First World War Germany’ in: Franziska Roy et al (eds), When the war began, we heard of several kings, pp. 53-95.

- ‘Introduction’ (with Heike Liebau), in: Franziska Roy et al (eds), When the war began, we heard of several kings, pp. 1-14.

2006

Review of Christiane Brosius, Empowering Visions. The Politics of Representation in Hindu Nationalism (London: Anthem, 2005), Periplus – Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, 16 (2006), pp. 239-243.

2013

‘Prisoners of War and Interned South Asian Civilians’, at: The World During the First World War – Perceptions, Experiences, and Consequences, Herrenhausen Symposium, Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, organised by VW-Stiftung and ZMO, October 28-30, 2013.

2013

With Ali Raza, ‘Playing the Game of Blood: A Study of the Khaksar Movement ca. 1931-45’, at: South Asia and the Long 1930s: Appropriations and Afterlives, University of Leiden, December 6-7, 2013.

2013

With Ali Raza. ‘In the Name of Self Defense: The Second World and the Politics of Paramilitary Groups in British India ca. 1939-46’, at: An Imperial World at War: The British Empire, 1939-1945, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, organised by Arts and Research Council, UK, Oxford University and King’s College, London, September 21-22, 2013.

2012

‘Mobilizing National Forces: Volunteers, Civil Defence and National Unity in India, 1962’, at the Conference on the 50th Anniversary of Sino-Indian Border War, National Archives of India in collaboration with Presidency University Kolkata and McGill University, Montreal, December 15, 2012.

2010

‘ “Train, discipline, organize” - Militarism of British-Indian youth organisations in the aftermath of the Great War’ at workshop 'Demobilizing Empires: The Transition from War to ‘Peace’ after the Great War' at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin (UCD), September 11, 2010.

2010

‘At Home and In The World: International Dimensions of the Organisation of Youth Movements in India in the first half of the 20th Century’, in the panel 'Interbellum internationalisms and India: towards a social history', European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), Bonn, July 27, 2010.

2009

‘Youth, Paramilitary Organisation and national discipline in South Asia in the first half of the 20th Century’ in the panel ‘The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds and World Views in the 1920s and 30s’ at the 38th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 23, 2009.

2009

‘National 'Self-Defense' and International Contexts – Youth Mobilisation in interwar India’, at the workshop 'India and the World from the Great War to the Cold War' hosted by The Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and the New India Forum at Temple University, Philadelphia, October 21, 2009.

2009

‘Of “voluntary work”, “black spies” and “Bengali sedition mongers” – Indian Civilian Prisoners of War in First World War Germany’, workshop 'South Asian Experiences of the World Wars: New Evidence and New Approaches', hosted by the German Historical Institute (DHI) at the Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS, SOAS), London, May 26, 2009.

2009

‘ “All the Indians were loyal” - Indian Prisoners of War in First World War Germany’ in the panel ‘Indian Perceptions of the world and global perceptions of India 1914-1962’ at the British Association for South Asian Studies Conference (BASAS), Edinburgh, March 31, 2009.

Sept 2010 – May 2011

Seminar tutor for undergraduate module 'Gandhi and Indian nationalism' (module led by Profs. David Arnold and David Hardiman), Department of History, University of Warwick