Dr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta is a trained archival expert with over five years of professional experience. He holds a Diploma in Archives and Record Management from the National Archives of India and has worked in significant roles across prestigious institutions, including the National Archives of India, the Department of Delhi Archives, and the History Division (MoD), New Delhi.
Passionate about promoting history and archival studies, Dr. Gupta is committed to facilitating the integration of diverse materials into structured archival, historical, and cultural contexts. He actively encourages multidisciplinary research approaches in these fields. In addition to his archival work, he has taught as a Visiting Faculty at NCWEB colleges, University of Delhi, where he offered courses in Archives and Museum Studies to undergraduate students.
An alumnus of Hindu College, University of Delhi, he holds a BA (Hons) degree in History and an MA in Modern Indian History. He was awarded an MPhil from the Department of History, Delhi University. His MPhil dissertation title was “Comics and Communalism in the Late Twentieth Century.” He then earned a PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His doctoral research, titled “The Rise of Comics, ‘Identities’, and the Creation of Desi Superheroes in ‘Indian’ Comics (1950–2016),” offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the evolution and transition of Indian comics.