Dr Aditya Sarkar
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Academic Profile
Research Interests: Labour history and industrial struggles; the social history of bubonic plague in late 19th century/early 20th century India; intellectual history; the history of left-wing politics; authoritarian populism and the contemporary Right.
Academic Career
- Sept 2013-present: Associate Professor of South Asian History, 神马福利影片
- 2009-2013: Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen
- 2005-2009: PhD in History, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (Thesis Title: Regulated Labour, Unruly Workers: The Making of Industrial Relations in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay)
- 2004-2005: M.Phil in History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
- 2002-2004: M.A. in Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
- 1999-2002: B.A. in History, Delhi University
Teaching
- (UG second-year option module)
- (UG second-year option module)
- (UG final-year core module)
- HI2E1 Historiography ILink opens in a new window (UG second-year module)
- HI3K6 India And the Problem of Postcolonial Democracy (UG final-year advanced option)
- HI997 Themes In Global and Comparative History (PG module)
Publications
Monographs
Trouble At The Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question In Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018
Academic Articles
"Pandemics, Labor Relations And Political Regimes: The Bubonic Plague And COVID-19 Crises in India", Labor: Studies In Working Class History, 20:2, May 2023
(with Julia Laite, Laura Schwartz and George Stevenson), Renewal: A Journal Of Social Democracy, 30:1, 2022 (
in Labour Dialogue 2020: Work Relations And The Pandemic - An Anthology (published by the Centre for Education and Communication, New Delhi and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia), December 2020
'The Emergence of a "Modern" Urban-Industrial Workforce in India, 1860-1914', in Maria Framke and Harald Fischer-Tin茅 (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia (2021)
(foreword to Frank Perlin, City Intelligible: A Philosophical and Historical Anthropology of Global Commoditisation before Industrialisation, Brill, 2020)
(with Pepijn Brandon) , International Review of Social History, April 2019
, International Review of Social History, August 2014
, in Ravi Ahuja, ed., Working Lives And Worker Militancy: The Politics of Labour in Colonial India, Delhi, 2013
, International Review of Social History, vol. 57, Special Issue S20 (Mediating Labour: Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries), December 2012
(with Angad Chowdhry) 鈥業ndian Haunting: Representing Failure as 鈥楥hange鈥� in Contemporary Mumbai鈥�, in Batyabal, Chowdhry and Gaur, eds., Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change, Delhi: Routledge, 2011
鈥楾he Work of Law: Three Factory Narratives from Bombay Presidency鈥�, 1881, in van der Linden and Mohapatra, eds., Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories (Essays in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya), Delhi: Tulika, 2009
Miscellaneous Publications (selected)
- (2007) , in International Socialism, 115, July 2007
- (2007) , Socialist Worker, November 2007
- (2007) (with Anish Vanaik) , Economic and Political Weekly, 42:38, September 2007
- (2006) Review, NCERT History Textbooks, in Contemporary Education Dialogue, 4,1, Monsoon 2006, Bangalore
- (2011) 'Anna At Nehru Place?',
- (2016) 'On Framing JNU For An Imaginary Crime',
- (2024) (with Kavita Krishnan), Telegraph (India), December 2024
Public talks (available online):
, organized by the Centre for Education and Communication, New Delhi, in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (South Asia), 22 December 2020, available on Youtube.