Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover)
(2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2024). Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover). Economic and Political Weekly, 59(35),
Dr ARUN KUMAR's Outputs (6)
Upal Chakrabarti. Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India. (2024)
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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
Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (2022)
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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.
Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India (2019)
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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)
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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)
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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).