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Education
Ph.D., 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 is now engaged in a comparative study of economic development in eighteenth-century Eurasia.
Representative Publications
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"The State of Indian Social History," Journal of Social History (2003)
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"The Great Divergence," Past and Present (August 2002)
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The Transition to A Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (2001)
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"Rethinking Wages and Competitiveness in the Eighteenth Century: Britain and South India," Past and Present (1998)