Anna Bochkovskaya is an associate
professor at the Department of South Asian History, Institute of Asian and
African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her research interests
include modern and contemporary history of India, Punjab studies, and religious
studies. Her most recent publications focus on religion and caste controversies
in the Indian Punjab.
She is the author of chapters
on Sikhism and Current Trends in Hinduism in Russian-language university
textbooks The History of Religions (2019), and Religious
Studies: BA Level (2017); chapters and translations in Death
in Maharashtra: Imagination, Perception and Expression (2012), Christianity
and Society in Asia: History and Modernity (2019). Jointly with
colleagues from the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russia’s Academy of
Sciences, she vastly contributed to volumes published in the frame of the
“Under the Skies of South Asia” multidisciplinary project: Portrait and
Sculpture (2014), Mobility and Space (2015), Censure
and Praise (2017), and edited Volume 3 (Under the Skies of South
Asia: Territory and Belonging, 2016).
Her translations
from English and Hindi into Russian include The Dread Departure /
Mahanirvan by Satish Alekar, They Moved Ahead / Te Pudhe Gele by
Makarand Sathe, chapters from Ancestral Affairs by Keki
Daruwalla, as well as short stories and poems by contemporary Indian
writers.
In these days, Prof. Anna is doing translation of Chhangiya Rukh (Autobiography) by Balbir Madhopuri in her mother tongue Russian.
