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Atul Nair
Atul Nair
PhD, University of Hyderabad
Contact Details
079-68261722
# A2, CEP 011, DAU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India – 382007
atul_nair@dau.ac.in
Biography
I work on Anglo-Indian periodicals published between 1780 and 1860 and engage with questions of the idea of literature, literary history and historiography, the formation of the English literary canon, and the global circulation of literary texts as material objects in the age of Empire. As part of my future research, I plan to expand my existing work on Anglo-Indian periodicals and explore questions of readership and circulation (both within and beyond British India). I also plan to include other related forms of print such as pamphlets and catalogues.
Specialization
Anglo-Indian Periodicals, The British Empire, English in India
Publications
Essays
- “Literary Evangelicalism: The Calcutta Review and the Imperial Anglophone Periodical Circuit.” Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 58, no. 2, Summer 2025, pp. 165-88. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2025.a975318 .
- “‘India Lay before Us’: The Asiatic Researches, William Jones, and the Orientalist Construction of ‘Indian Literature.’” South Asian Review, vol. 45, no. 3, 2023, pp. 243-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2023.2234659.
Book Chapters
- “‘A Number for Eternity’: Civil Lines as an Indian Book-Magazine Experiment.” The Routledge Companion to Book Studies, edited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston. [Commissioned]
- “Imperial Antipathies: Reporting the 1857 Uprising in the Calcutta Review.” Victorian Antipathies: Negative Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, edited by Nina Engelhardt and Anja Hartl, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-032-23163-5 https://link.springer.com/book/9783032231635 [Forthcoming in June 2026]
Reviews
- Review of Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire, by Priyasha Mukhopadhyay. Victorian Review, vol. 51, no. 2, Fall 2025, pp. 321-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a993456 .
- “The Spectre of Gandhi: A Review of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj.” Indian Writing in English Online, 27 March 2023, https://indianwritinginenglish.uohyd.ac.in/the-spectre-of-gandhi-atul-v-nair/
Public Writing
- “Lucknow to Stirling: Ghosts of 1857 in a Scottish Museum.” Scroll.in, 8 June, 2025.
https://scroll.in/article/1081213/lucknow-to-stirling-ghosts-of-1857-in-a-scottish-museum - “Academia both colonial and modern owes an intellectual debt to the sidelined ‘native’ scholar.” Scroll.in, 13 March, 2024.
https://scroll.in/article/1063553/academia-both-colonial-and-modern-owes-an-intellectual-debt-to-the-sidelined-native-scholar - “On Identity and Identification in a Genocide.” Screening Vulnerability. Discussion: Part I: Genocide. The UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies. 16 May, 2023. https://ucvulnerabilitystudies.uohyd.ac.in/screening-vulnerability-discussion-part-i-genocide/
- “The Rabindranath Tagore Interviews.” India Art Review. 17 and 21 September, 2022.
https://indiaartreview.com/stories/rare-rabindranath-tagore-interviews/
https://indiaartreview.com/stories/rare-interviews-of-rabindranath-tagore-part-2/ - “Wondering, Wandering: Tales from Libraries.” India Art Review. 14 March, 2022.
https://indiaartreview.com/stories/libraries-in-india-and-their-rich-heritage/