Ashutosh Kumar (PhD)

Fellow/ Associate Professor

Modern South Asia

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

IN

011 New Delhi

ashutoshkranti@gmail.com

9868253755

Forschung und Projekte

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Coolinama

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920. Cambridge University Press, New Delhi. ISBN: 9781107147959. (2017)

Indian Nationalists and The End of Indentured Migration, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Occasional Papers, History and Society Series, 2014. ISBN: 978-93-83650-11-8. (2014)

Artikel

2017: ‘Naukari, Networks and Knowledge: Views of Indenture in Nineteenth-Century North India’, South Asian Studies, Vol. 33, issue 2, 2017. ISSN: 2153-2699.

2017: ‘Bhartiya Rashtravad Banam Girmit Pratha’, Pratiman, Varsh 5, Ank 10, ISSN: 23208201.

2016: ‘Feeding the Girmitiya: Food and Drink on Indentured Ships to the Sugar Colonies’, Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Vol:16, No. 1, pp. 41-52, ISSN: 1529-3262.

2016: (Review), Sabyasachi Dasgupta, ‘In Defence of Honuor and Justice: Sepoys Rebellions in Nineteenth Century’ Summerhil , Vol XX, no. 1, Summer 2016. ISSN: 0972-1452.

2013: ‘Anti-Indentured Bhojpuri Folk Songs and Poems from Northern India’, Man in India: An International Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 93 (4): 509-519. ISSN: 0025-1569

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

The Indian Labour Diaspora: A Resource Text for Students, edited with Crispin Bates and Marina Carter, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN: 978-1- 9999205-6-2. (2017)

Bhutlen Ki Katha: Girmit ke Anubhav by Totaram Sanadhya, edited with Brij V. Lal and Yogendra Yadav, Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-267-2300- 3. (2012)

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Modern Indian History, British Empire and labour Migration, Indian Labour Diaspora, Health and Medicine, Food and identity, and Global Migration.