Education

PhD, Harvard University, 1992

Fields of Interest

Modern South Asian history; British Empire; labor history; economic history

Academic Profile

Professor Parathasarathi joined the faculty in the fall of 1998. He teaches courses on modern South Asia and the British Empire. He has recently completed a book on the economic and social history of eighteenth-century South India, and he is now engaged in a comparative study of economic development in eighteenth-century Eurasia.

Representative Publications

• The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 (2009)
• "The State of Indian Social History," Journal of Social History (2003)
• "The Great Divergence," Past and Present (August 2002)
• The Transition to A Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (2001)
• "Rethinking Wages and Competitiveness in the Eighteenth Century: Britain and South India," Past and Present (1998)