- Modern Indian History
- Labour History
- Urban History
Experience top of the world living and learning at SRM University-AP
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SRM University-AP, Neerukonda,
Mangalagiri Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh - 522240
- November 2023-October 2024 - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute/Harvard University
- July 2023- October 2023 - Research Assistant, Max Weber Stiftung/ICAS:MP, New Delhi
- April 2023 - June 2023 - Consultant, Max Weber Stiftung/ICAS:MP, New Delhi
- 2018 - 2021 - Research Associate, Max Weber Stiftung, New Delhi
- 2010-2011 - Guest Lecturer, School of Open Learning University of Delhi, Delhi
- 2007-2011 -Guest Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies (GRS) University of Delhi, Delhi
- My primary research area lies within Modern Indian History, Labour History, Urban Studies and Socio-political movements, with expertise in the history of Bombay’s mill workers. In my PhD, I looked at the popular politics of Bombay’s erstwhile mill district, popularly known as Girangaon, in the first half of the twentieth century.
- My current research project, developed during my postdoc, explores the plurality of historical experiences, including class-based mobilisation and a united anti-British popular upsurge in post-war Bombay, to underline the existence of alternate possibilities of popular mobilisation besides communal polarisation at this historical conjuncture.
- Nov 2023 - Oct 2024 – Laxmi Mittal South Asia Institute – Awarded one-year India Fellowship
- Oct 2016 - Dec 2016 – German Historical Institute, London (GHIL) – Awarded Research Grant for Doctoral Research
- 2013 - 2016 – DFG Research Grant, Germany – Awarded a three-year Research Grant for Doctoral Project
- April 2012 - Sep 2012 – DAAD, New Passage to India Fellowship – Granted a research fellowship of five months by CeMIS, Göttingen
- Association of Indian Labour Historians
RESEARCH ARTICLE
- “Civil Disobedience and the City: Congress and the Working classes in Bombay, c.1930-32”, in Prashant Kidambi et al., eds., Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos, Hurst & Company, London, 2019.
BOOK REVIEW
- Reviewed Ahmad Azhar’s Revolution in Reform: Trade-Unionism in Lahore, c 1920- 1970, for Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, No. 26-27, 25, (June 2022), pp. 37-38.
OPINION PIECE
- Revisiting the Railway Strike of 1974, The Hindu, 21 May 2024.
- Through Their Strike, the Samsung Workers Brought the Question of Industrial democracy to the fore, The Wire, 5 November 2024.
- E-mail id: robert.r@srmap.edu.in