Publications

 

“Between Microhistory and Global History: Rethinking Histories of Small Space and Cities”, Comparative Studies in Society and History (forthcoming).

“Ford Foundation India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol 43, N0. 6 (Nov 2020), pp. 1041-1057

Bazaar Capitalism and the First World War: A View from Colonial Calcutta," in Bley and Kremers (ed).The World During the First World War,(Essen: Klartext, 2014): 233-238.

 

Manuscripts Under Review

 

Bringing History into the Histories of Business Cities: Why did Postcolonial Calcutta Decline as a Business Center? [under review in Past & Present]

“Economic Think Tanks and the Global South: Ford Foundation, ICRIER and India’s Economic Reforms, 1981-1992” [under revision— research commissioned by Open Philanthropy and the Urban Institute, USA].

 

Manuscripts in Progress

 

“The World’s Worst City?: The Many International Lives of Calcutta.” (draft available on request).

“Utilitarian Developmentalism in Colonial and Neoliberal India” [Draft available on request].

Profit Against Development: Big Businesses and Urban Fortunes of Calcutta and Bombay, c 1900-1970

Foundations of Development: American Non-Profit Organizations in Postcolonial India.