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Georgia Institute of Technology<br /> M. Phil. University of Delhi<br /> M. A. University of Delhi<br /> B. A. University of Delhi <strong><br /> </strong> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><strong>Postdoctoral Research</strong></h2> Yale University, Department of History, 2004-2006<br /> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2>Specializing in:</h2> Modern South Asia; History of Science; World History <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><strong>Current Research Interests:</strong></h2> Fellow, "Framing the Global Project," Center for Global Studies, Indiana University, 2011-2015 Research Topic: The Science of GM Crops, Globalization, and Civil Society Resistance in India <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~global/framing/fellows.php">http://www.indiana.edu/~global/framing/fellows.php</a><br/><br/> <h2><strong>Book Manuscript:</strong></h2> The Odyssey of Indigo: Plantations and Science in Colonial India, 1700-1920 (forthcoming) <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><strong>Courses to be taught in the next two years:</strong></h2> HIST 171: World History, 1500-Present<br /> HIST 440: Modern South Asia<br /> HIST 441: South Asia Since Independence<br /> HIST 463: Historiography of Science <br /> HIST 492: Senior Seminar: Historiography of Modern South Asia; Science and Empire; Science and Nature; Global History<br /> HIST 501: Graduate Seminar in Historical Method: Science, Colonialism, and Modernity<br /> HIST 534: Graduate Reading Seminar in South Asia: World, Nation, and Colonial Modernity<br /> </p> <h2><strong>Major Publications:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Transnational Knowledge and Colonial Indigo Plantations in South Asia (In press, <em>Modern Asian Studies</em>)</li> <li>Natural Indigo: A Product of  Nature ? (in review)</li> <li>"Plantation Science: Improving Natural Indigo in Colonial India, 1860-1913," Winning entry, Special Commendation, Singer Prize, British Journal for the History of Science, 40: 4 (December, 2007): 537-565</li> <li>"Scientific Experiments in British India: Indigo Planters, Scientists, and the State, 1890-1930," in Indian Economic and Social History Review, 38:3 (June-September, 2001): 249-270</li> </ul> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><strong>Fellowships/Major Grants:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Scholar's Award, National Science Foundation, 2008-11</li> <li>University of Chicago, Special Collections, South Asia, 2007-08</li> <li>Dissertation Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2004</li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--end left --> </div> </div> <!--end container --> </div> <div id="ft"> <div class="footer"> <div align="center"> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../footer.txt"></script> <br /> Page last revised on <!-- #BeginDate format:Sw1 -->9 October, 2009<!-- #EndDate --> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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