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Gopalan Balachandran 2

Gopalan BALACHANDRAN

CO-DIRECTOR, ALBERT HIRSCHMAN CENTRE ON DEMOCRACY
HONORARY PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS
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Spoken languages
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
Areas of expertise
  • Central banks
  • Emerging countries
  • Globalisation
  • Immigrants, refugees, diasporas
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • North-South relations
  • South Asia
  • Indian Ocean

PROFILE

 

Master (Economics) and MPhil (International Economics), JNU, New Delhi
PhD in Economic History, University of London

Gopalan Balachandran joined the Institute in 2000 from the Delhi School of Economics. His research engages South Asia and the Indian Ocean in a global frame and spans labour, capital, entrepreneurship and development. He is also interested in histories of colonialism and decolonisation, and their continuing significance for the present. Professor Balachandran’s current research focusses on cultures of commerce in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds. He also supervises research on modern and contemporary South Asia as well as in selected areas in cultural and intellectual history, and welcomes students with interests in oceanic and maritime history.

 

EXPERTISE DETAILS

 

TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SUPERVISION

  • South Asia / Indian Ocean
  • Labour and migration
  • Monetary / financial history
  • Colonialism and decolonisation
  • Oceanic / maritime history
  • Cultural and intellectual history
  • Historical methods / postcolonial approaches

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Books:

Selected articles and chapters (2013 onwards):

  • ‘Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, Racial Governance, and Multiculturalism: Britain, c. 1900-1945’, Social History39: 4 (2014), 528-46.
  • ‘Legacies beyond Empire: Reflections on Doing International History from Geneva’, Swiss Journal of History64: 2 (2014), 239-63.
  • ‘Atlantic Paradigms and Aberrant Histories’, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 11: 1 (2014), 47-63.
  • Roundtable on Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945, International Journal of Maritime History 25: 1 (2013), 275-321.

 

ACTIVITIES

 

  • Managing Editor, Indian Economic and Social History Review
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