University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site Title Dr First Name Prabhu Prasad Last Name Mohapatra Photograph Designation Department Associate Professor History (Cam- Address pus) Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University, Delhi 110007 (Residence) 13/602 East End Apartments Mayur Vihar Phase I Extension, Delhi 110096 Phone No (Campus) 27666659 (Residence)optional 22742260 Mobile Fax Email prabhuayan@gmail.com Web-Page Education Subject Institution Year Details Phd JNU 1990 Aspects of Agrarian Economy of Chotanagpur 1880-1950 ( supervisor Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya) Mphil JNU 1982 Promoted to PhD on the basis of CourseworkGrade of A( 7.5 CGPA/9) M.A Delhi University 1980 First Class (4.53/6 GPA) History- Modern Indian History,(8 papers) History of China(6) Political Thought(2) B.Sc(Honours) Delhi University 1978 First Class Physics (Hon), Chemistry and Mathematics (Sub) Career Profile www.du.ac.in Page 1
Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role Department of History, University of Delhi Department of History, University of Delhi V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, Sector 24,NOIDA Associate Professor 2006-Present Taught and Supervised Masters class and MPhil and PhD thesis Reader 2002-2006 Taught and Supervised Masters class andmphil and PhD thesis Visiting Fellow 1998-2002 Initiated and organised the Integrated Labour History Research Programme and established the first fully digital Archives of Indian Labour CLARA, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Post Doctoral Fellowship 1997-98 Industrialisation and Work Culture : A History of Industrial Relations in India The International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden and Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam, Post Doctoral Fellowship 1994-1996 History of Indian Indentured labourers in the Caribbean 1840-1920 Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University Visiting Fellow 1993-1994 Project on "Comparative History of Indentured Labour Systems in Assam and the West Indies, 1840-1920. 8) Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Fellowship Fellow 1989-1993 Project entitled "Industrialisation and Consciousness". Research Interests / Specialization Global Labour history,global history of labour migration,modern Indian Social and Economic History, Environmental history, History of law and Regulation Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught) M.A-Economic and Social History of India 1750-1850, Economic History of India 1850-1950, Strategies of Imperial Control, History of National Movement 1857-1919, Cotaught National Movement in India 1919-1947, History of Labour, Working Class and Labouring Poor 1800-2000, Global History course Slaves, Coolies and "free" Labour: A History od Servitude ca 1500-2000 MPhil- Coursework III based on readings of Historiographically Significant texts, Lectures n Course work I on Slavery, and Marxist Historiography Honors & Awards Publications (LAST FIVE YEARS) www.du.ac.in Page 2
Books / Monographs Year of Publication Title Publisher Co-Author 2018(forthcoming)- Ecology, Economy and Migration: A History of the Jharkhand region 1880-1950" for publication with Primus Books, New Delhi. In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals Year of Publication Title Journal Co-Author 2015 May1 Unravelling the Puzzle, Seminar,No 669, Special Issue on Reforming Labour Laws Articles( Book Chapters) 1) On Home,Work and Personhood (Forthcoming) 2018,in Felicitas Henstchke (ed)to be at Home:House, Work and Self, De Gruyter, Oldenberg. 2) Dialogues Across Borders ( co authored with Chitra Joshi and Rana P Behal) in On the Road to Global Labour History(ed) Karl Heinz Roth,Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018 3) Regulated Informality:Legal Construction of Labour Relations in Colonial India 1814-1926 in Andreas Eckert (ed)global Histories of Work, September 2016, De Gruyter, Oldenberg. Conference Presentations Total Publication Profile optional Books Coedited with Marcel van der Linden Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories, Tulika Books, New Delhi 2009 - Under preparation a)currently revising manuscript " Ecology, Economy and Migration: A history of the Jharkhand region 1880-1950" for publication with Primus Books, New Delhi 2018 www.du.ac.in Page 3
In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals 1) Unravelling the Puzzle, Seminar,No 669, 2015 May 1,Special Issue on Reforming Labour Laws 2)Eurocentrism, Forced Labour and Global Migration. A Critical Assessment International Review of Social History, Cambridge No 1, Vol52, 2007 3) Following Custom? : Representations of Community among Indian Immigrant Labour in the West Indies, 1880-1920 in International Review of Social History, No 4, Vol51, 2006 4) A Short Note on a Long View on Labour Mobility in India 1880-1990 in Labour and Development, NOIDA,July, 2004. 5) Situating the Renewal: Reflections on Labour Studies in India in Labour and Development, NOIDA, Dec 1999. 6)"Restoring the Family: Wife Murders and the Making of a Sexual Contract for Indian Indentured Labourers in the British Caribbean Colonies" in Studies in History, Vol. 10,No 2, 1995, Sage New Delhi 7)(Coauthored with Rana P. Behal) "Tea and Money versus Human Lives: The Rise and Fall of Indentured system in Assam Tea Plantations 1840-1908. "in Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol, No2 1992,Frank Cass, London 8) "Some Aspects of Expansion of the Arable in Chotanagpur 1880-1950" in Economic and Political Weekly, April 1991. 9)"Land and Credit Market in Chotanagpur1880-1940" in Vol 7, No1, 1991,Sage, New Delhi. Studies in History, NS, 10)"Class Conflict and Agrarian Regimes in Chotanagpur 1860-1950" in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. No. 1991 Sage, New Delh 11) "Coolies and Colliers: The Agrarian Context of Labour Migration from Chotanagpur 1880-1920 "in Studies in History, New series, vol. 1, No.1, 1985,Sage, New Delhi. www.du.ac.in Page 4
Articles and Book Chapters 1) On Home,Work and Personhood (Forthcoming) 2018,in Felicitas Henstchke (ed)to be at Home:House, Work and Self, De Gruyter, Oldenberg. 2) Dialogues Across Borders ( co authored with Chitra Joshi and Rana P Behal) in On the Road to Global Labour History(ed) Karl Heinz Roth,Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018 3) Regulated Informality:Legal Construction of Labour Relations in Colonial India 1814-1926 in Andreas Eckert (ed)global Histories of Work, September 2016, De Gruyter, Oldenberg. 4) Les contradictions des contrats. Les origines des relations du travail dans l Inde Coloniale du XIXe siècle in Alessandro Stanzianni (ed) Le travail contraint. EuropeAsie,XVIIe-XXe siècles, Paris 2010 5) Introduction in Marcel van der Linden and P.Mohapatra (ed) Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories, Tulika Books, New Delhi 2009 6) From Contract to Status? Or How Law Shaped Labour Relations in Colonial India 1770-1880 in Breman, Jan, Isabelle Guerin and Aseem Prakash (ed) India s Unfree Labour force, OUP, New Delhi 2009 7) Labor Markets in India: Issues and Perspectives ( Author of the Section on Labour Law and Trends in Industrial Relations ) in Labor Markets in Asia : Issues and Perspectives (ed) Jesus Felipe and Rana Hasan, Palgrave MacMillan,New York, 2006.) 8) The Hosay Massacre of 1884: Class and Community among Indian Labourers in Trinidad" in Marcel van der Linden and A.N Das (ed) Work and Social Change in South Asia Festschrift volume for Professor Jan Breman, Manohar New Delhi 2002. 9) "Longing and Belonging":The Dilemma of Return among Indian Immigrants in the West Indies 1860-1940" in International Institute of Asian Studies Year Book 1995 Leiden 1995. 10) Agricultural Production in Chotanagpur 1890-1950" in Sumit Guha (ed) Agricultural Productivity in Colonial India 1992, OUP, New Delhi 11) Tea and Money versus Human Lives ( co author Rana Behal Plantations, Peasants and Proletarians in Colonial Asia ed) E. Valentine Daniel, Henry Bernstein, and Tom Brass 1992, Frank Cass, London 12) Village Communities in Jharkhand" (Tr in Hindi) in Jharkhand Darshan, Vol1 No 5,1990, Chaibasa. 13) "Forests of Chotanagpur" in Frontier, April 1990, Cal Working Papers: 1) Politics of Representation In the Indian Labour Diaspora: West Indies 1860-1920, Working Paper Series No 38, 2004, V. V. Giri National Labour Institute 2) "Migration and the Formation of Labour Market in Colonial India 1830-1940", in the Writing Labour History programme at the VVGIRI National Labour Institute, 2000. www.du.ac.in Page 5
3) "Asian Labour: Culture, Consciousness and Representations- Notes for Possible Research" Working Paper Series I of the International Collaborative Project at the IISH, Amsterdam 1997 October. 4) " Changing Labour Relations in Contemporary Asia: Towards a Research Agenda." Status Paper of International Collaborative Project at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.1996 October www.du.ac.in Page 6
Conference Presentations Perspectives on Actors in Social History (March27 29, 2014), WIKO, Berlin Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity Consulted for Asian Development Bank ( 2005), World Bank, KNOMAD programme Survey s on Cost of Migration :Returnees from Qatar and Saudi Arabia 2014 and 2016, ILO on National Employment Policy 2013. Technology and Future of Work 2017. Professional Societies Memberships 1) Founding Member and Secretary Association of Indian Labour Historians(AILH) 2) Member, Joint Advisory Committee, Integrated Labour History Research Programme, VVGiri National Labour Institute. 3) Member, International Social History Group 4) Member, Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations) Other Details www.du.ac.in Page 7