BIO
Mr. Aman Mishra is currently working in the field of early medieval history of South Asia with a special interest in urban history. He graduated with a B.A. (honours) in History from Rajasthan College, and he did his post-graduation in M.A. History from the University of Rajasthan. He joined I.I.T. Mandi in February 2019 as a PhD scholar and submitted his thesis. While completing his coursework, he presented a paper on Patronage to the Temples in Early Medieval India: An analysis of the Land Grants to Baijnth Temple of Kangra in the 80th session of the Indian History Congress. In his research, he is trying to explore the economic foundations of the third urbanization, which occurred in India during CE 600-1000. Apart from this, he is also working on a monograph of pre- modern cities of India and has attended different conferences, including one international and four national conferences. Currently, he is part of the project named Antiquity History of India sponsored by Bloomsbury Academic and the University of Pennsylvania..