Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science
Programme of the Day
Introduction: 9:15-9:30
9:30-11:00 Session 1: Global Contests in South Asia, Chair: Safya Morshed
- The prominence of peripheral actors in South Asian commercial history: uses of the East India Company archive. By Edmond Smith, University of Manchester
- Economic shocks and temple desecrations in medieval India. By Rohit Ticku, Chapman University. Co-authors: Anand Shrivastava (Azim Premji University) and Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
- Trade disruption, industrialisation, and the setting sun of British colonial rule in India. By Bjoern Brey, AMSE & University of Nottingham. Co-author: Roberto Bonfatti (University of Padova)
11:00-11:15 Tea Break
11:15-12:45 Session 2: Labour and Migration from a World View, Chair: Alka Raman
- The 1918 influenza pandemic in India: Mortality estimates and correlates. By Chinmay Tumbe, IIM Ahmedabad
- Franchise expansion and electoral Mobilization: How caste and migration shaped India's colonial politics. By Ashish Aggarwal, University of Warwick. Co-authors: Ritam Chaury (Johns Hopkins University) and Pravithra Suryanarayan (Johns Hopkins University)
- Monopsony and moral hazard: state-sponsored indentureship in the nineteenth century as a contract-enforcement mechanism. By Alexander Persaud, University of Richmond
12:45-1:15 Lunch break
1:15-2:45 Session 3: Global Connections and Comparisons, Chair: Dr Maanik Nath
- An umbrella system: South Asia in the early modern Atlantic. By Kazuo Kobayashi, Waseda University
- Supply of labour during early industrialization: Agricultural systems, textile factory work and gender in Japan and India, ca. 1880-1940. By Aditi Dixit, Utrecht University. Co-author: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University)
- A capital mistake? Tracing the origins of financial globalization in early modern Eurasian interaction. By Alberto Feenstra, Leiden University
Tea Break: 2:45-3:00
3:00-4:45: Panel Discussion
Discussion on South Asia’s place in global economic history, expert panel comprising:
- Chair: Dr Leigh Gardner (LSE)
- Professor Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)
- Professor B.R. (Tom) Tomlinson (SOAS)
- Professor Giorgio Riello (European University Institute & University of Warwick)
- Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE)