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I am a PhD candidate in the History Department at Binghamton University, New York. I am interested in historical research focusing on themes such as Agrarian History, History of Capitalism, History of Science and Tech, Global History, and their intersections. My specialisation is 19th and 20th-century India, the British Empire, and the US.
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,…
Originating in the Nineteenth Century, the European idea of development was shaped around the premise that the West possessed progressive characterist…
In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff tr…
Gazi Mizanur Rahman’s In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community (Cambridge University Press, 2024) offers the first s…