Delhi University

✔ Chairman, Governing Body, Kirori Mal College since June 2015.
✔ Principal Investigator, EurIndia Project between the European Union and Delhi University,
2004 – 2007.
✔ Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2001 – 2003.
✔ Director, Population Education Centre, 2001 – 2003.
✔ Chairman, Admission Advisory Committee, 2001 – 2003.
✔ Member, Academic Council, 2001 – 2004 and 2008 – 2010.
✔ Head, Department of History, 2001 – 2004.
✔ Head, Department of Adult Continuing Education and Extension, 2001 – 2003.
✔ Member, Executive Council, 2001 – 2003.
✔ Chairman, Review Committee of Colleges, 1999 – 2001.

Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India (MHRD)

✔ Member, Joint Committee of UGC, AICTE and Distance Education Council,IGNOU, 2007 – 2009.
✔ Adjudicator, Satyen Mitra Awards, MHRD, 2002 – 2004.
✔ Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, 1998 – 1999
(A Cabinet Committee Appointment)
✔ Chairman, Senior Secondary History, National Institute of Open Schooling, 2004 – 2009.
✔ Member, Academic Council & Research Council, IGNOU, 2007 – 2009.
✔ Member, School Board of Social Sciences, IGNOU, 2014 – 2016.

University Grants Commission (UGC)

✔ Helped prepare a model curriculum for History and Archaeology, 2000 – 2001.
✔ Member, X Plan Implementation Committee (2003 – 2004) and XI Plan Implementation Committee
(2008 – 2009).
✔ Member of Population Education Committee (2003 – 2004), Review Committees of CAS, SAP and
Foreign Travel Grant since 2000.
✔ Carried out a survey for UGC to evaluate the effectiveness of telephonic counseling in 17
universities during 2003 – 2004.

Indian History Congress (IHC)

✔ Have made important contribution to Indian History Congress as Treasurer (1986 – 1989),
Joint Secretary and Incharge, Permanent Office (1989 – 1992) and Local Secretary (1992).

✔ Social and Economic History of Peninsular India.
✔ Social History of Performing Arts / Interdisciplinarity.

✔ Ancient and Medieval Peninsular Indian History.
✔ World Civilizations.
✔ Socio – political formations.
✔ European History.
✔ Interdisciplinarity Studies on Asian Culture.

✔ Supervision of awarded Doctoral Thesis – Eleven (11)
✔ Supervision of awarded M.Phil dissertations – Twenty (20)