Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, International History

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MA (Economics) and M. Phil. (International Economics) from JNU, New Delhi India

PhD in Economic History from University of London

Dissertations:

• ‘Problems of Choice in the International Monetary System’ (M. Phil.)
• ‘Indian Monetary Policies and the International Liquidity Crisis during the Inter-war Years’. (Ph D)
• ‘Western Central Banks, Short-term Policy and the Indian Financial System, 1900-1945’(Book-length research project report)

Areas of expertise

• Central banks
  
• Emerging countries
• Globalisation
• Immigrants, refugees, diasporas
  
• Asia South

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• International economic and social history
• History of international employment and migration
• Post-colonial states and the international system
• Modern South Asian history
• Critical historiographical perspectives
• Intellectual and institutional histories

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DRAFTS AND PAPERS IN PROGRESS

• Movement vs. Migration
• Modern Empires
• Notes Towards A Prehistory Of Racism and Multiculturalism
• Is Global History an Oxymoron?
• The Nakahara Lecture
• Staging Capital: a Review
• Asia in the Financial Crisis: ‘Vernacular’ Norms and Western Narratives
   

Selected publications

Books

• India and the World Economy, 1850-1950 (Delhi and Oxford, 2003/2006)
  
• The Reserve Bank of India, 1951-1967 (Delhi and Oxford, 1998)
  
• John Bullion’s Empire: Britain’s Financial Problems and India between the Wars (London, 1996)

Selected Articles:

• "Power and Markets in Global Finance: the Gold Standard, 1890–1926", in Journal of Global History, Vol. 3, 2008
• "Cultures of Protest in Transnational Contexts: Indian Seamen Abroad, 1886-1945", in Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2008 
• ‘South Asian Seafarers and their Worlds’, in Jerry Bentley, et al eds, Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Local Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges (Honolulu, 2007)
• Crossing the last frontier: Transatlantic movements of Asian maritime workers, c. 1900-1945’, Research in Maritime History, 2007
• ‘Developing the State of a Nation in a Post-colonial World’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, no. 2, 2007.
• ‘On the History of Globalisation and India: Concepts, Measures and Debates’ (with Sanjay Subrahmanyam), in Chris Fuller, et al, eds, Globalizing India: economy, education, culture and religion (London, 2005)
• ‘Circulation through Seafaring: Indian Seamen, 1890-1945', in Claude Markovits, et al eds, Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 (Delhi, 2003)
• ‘Conflicts in the International Labour Market: British and Indian Seamen, Employers, and the State, 1890-1939', Indian Economic and Social History Review (vol. 39: 1, 2002), pp. 71-100.
• ‘The Interwar Slump in India: The Periphery in a Crisis of Empire’, in Theo Balderston, ed., The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (London, 2002)
• `Searching for the Sardar: The State, Pre-capitalist Institutions, and Human Agency in the Maritime Labour Market, Calcutta, 1850-1935', in Burton Stein and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds, Institutions and Economic Change in South Asia (Delhi and Oxford, 1996).
• ‘Religion and Nationalism in Modern India', in Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds., Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India's Secular Identity (New Delhi, 1996)
• `Britain's Liquidity Crisis and India, 1919-20', Economic History Review, 3, August 1993.

Fellowship and activities

• Editor, Indian Economic and Social History Review
• Fellow, Centre for Development Economics

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