As an alumnus of Ravenshaw, Professor Nanda did his Intermediate Arts (1980) and subsequently completed his graduation (1982) in the erstwhile Ravenshaw College. He obtained his Masters (1984), M. Phil (1987) and Ph. D from Center of Historical Studies, Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) in 1996. His research thrusts span a variety of interdisciplinary subjects with focus on exploring the genealogy of modernity, identity and politics based on the registers of critical historiographyand postcolonial theory.  Interplay between History and Theory; Human Sciences and its Disciplinary Practices;   Climate change and human sciences  anchored on global and planetary scales;  History2, Affective and Vernacular Histories; Social history of Health and Medicine in South Asia; Public Health Ethics ; and   issues of popular Culture and Identity Politics  foregrounding aspects of  agency and subordination of socially subordinate people of Global South are the themes – which have evolved over the period – as his enduring areas of   research interests. He has been the recipient of  prestigious international awards, grants and fellowships including  LEAP (Leadership for Academicians Program) hosted by  Harvard Graduate School of  Education at the Cambridge campus of Harvard University Boston, USA  and IISER, Kolkata in 2019, ( under sponsorship  of MHRD, India); Aarhus University(Denmark) Global Research Grant, 2019;  Erasmus Mundus Interdisciplinary Bridges for Indo-European Studies (IBIES) Fellowship, (2015); Wellcome Trust  ( UK) Grant ( 2012-15); and Charles Wallace Fellowship (2007,1999). He has participated in Orissa Research project of German Research Council (2001-2005) and International Association for Global Project on the History of Leprosy of Oxford (2001-2003).  He has served as a Visiting Fellow/ Professor to a number of universities/ institutions in UK, Germany, US, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland (including WHO, Geneva) and Japan. He was appointed as Professor in Ravenshaw in the year 2010, and since then he has been associated with several academic and administrative responsibilities of the university