Upal Chakrabarti
My interests range over intellectual history, colonialism, political economy, agrarian studies, science studies, and governance. My doctoral work consisted of historical investigations into connections between political economy, science, agrarian governance, and regional property configurations in British India and imperial Britain in the nineteenth century. In the book, developed out of this work, I argue that the “local” needs to be understood as a conceptual formation generating, as concrete effects, entanglements between spatializable locales and non-localizable spaces.
I am starting some new work on practices of science in twentieth century India.
Education
completed my B.A. in Sociology from Presidency College, Calcutta in 2005, following which I joined the M.A. program in Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, which I completed in 2007. At JNU, I also opted for a number of courses on Indian history and historical methodology at the Centre for Historical Studies. In 2008, I secured full funding from the Felix Trust to pursue a PhD program in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
I was selected as a Fellow at the Institute of Critical Social Inquiry, New School of Social Research, to work with Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on "Why Marx Today?" (June, 2016)
Source: Presidency University Kolkata
