Lesser Lives: Stories of Domestic Servants in India - E-book - ePub

NITIN SINHA is Senior Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. He was the principal investigator of a three-year project (2015-18) entitled, 'Domestic Servants in Colonial South Asia', funded by the European Research Council (ERC). A regular contributor to the Wire and various journals, he has written Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s and co-edited two volumes of Servants' Pasts on the history of domestic servants in India.
He has taught at the universities of Humboldt and York, among other institutions. He recently won the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project on a social history of time in South Asia. PRABHAT KUMAR is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. He has taught history at the Presidency University, Kolkata. His areas of research include the literary, visual and cultural histories of north India.
He is presently a fellow at the M. S. Merian-R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies: Metamorphosis of the Political (ICAS:MP), Delhi.