Upal Chakrabarti. Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India.
(2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2024). Upal Chakrabarti. Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India. American Historical Review, 129(1), 253-254. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad526
Outputs (8)
The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920) (2022)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2022). The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920). In G. Duijzings, & L. Dušková (Eds.), Working at Night: The Temporal Organisation of Labour Across Political and Economic Regimes (45-68). Oldenburg: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753592-003
Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (2022)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2022). Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 59(3), 403-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646221109927Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021, 227 pp.
The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway (2022)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2022). The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway. In G. Cederlöf (Ed.), The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia (26-55). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317227-2Capitalism thrives on contracts. From recruiting workers and employees to transacting everyday business and selling commodities, the contract ideology is the absolute necessity for capitalism to function. Contracts are to ensure a regime of secure, l... Read More about The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway.
Rethinking Inequality and Education: Crime, Labour and the School Curriculum in Indian Reformatory Schools (1880s-1920s) (2021)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2021). Rethinking Inequality and Education: Crime, Labour and the School Curriculum in Indian Reformatory Schools (1880s-1920s). In V. Gupta, R. Kant Agnihotri, & M. Panda (Eds.), Education and Inequality: Historical and Contemporary Trajectories (143-170). Delhi: Orient BlackSwan
Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2020). Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India. Past and Present, 246(1), 149-190. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz035This article examines the emergence of mass letter-writing in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial north India, a region marked by the growth of an unprecedented labour mobility, postal expansion, vernacular print, and workers' l... Read More about Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India.
The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2019). The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(5), 823-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1653162This article investigates Dalits’ dreams and desires for education in the United Provinces by examining hitherto unexplored records of the American Methodist Church missionaries and the Arya Samaj from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie... Read More about The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India.
Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910) (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2019). Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910). Journal of South Asian Development, 13(3), 249-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973174118810050Written in the backdrop of the emerging official discourse around occupational skill training in contemporary India, this article returns to the past to explain how the meanings of skill and skill training were produced through the interaction of the... Read More about Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910).