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Residence 9810933772 Mobile Email [email protected] Web-Page Educational Qualifications Degree Institution Year MA Jawaharlal Nehru University 1975 PhD Jawaharlal Nehru University 1981 BA University of Lucknow 1972 Career Profile I have had experience of undergraduate teaching of around 30 years; post-graduate of 8 years. I have also had teaching assignments in the University of Goettingen, Germany, and University of Innsbruck, Austria; and Fellowhips at Humboldt University, Berlin and at Nehru Memorial Museum Library, New Delhi. Administrative Assignments Year Teacher-in –Charge, 2013-2015; 1999-2001. Member Admission Committee 1994, 1999-2000, 2013-2015. Advisor, History Society between 1987-1989 and 1996-97, 20112013 Convenor, Library Committee, 2013-2016 Member, Library Committee, 2012-2013. Member, Prizes Committee, 2012-2013 Convenor, Gender Sensitization Committee 2006-2008 Member, Editorial Board, College Magazine 2002-2004 Areas of Interest / Specialization Modern Indian History Labour History Subjects Taught

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Undergraduate Modern India History of Modern Europe Rise of the Modern West History of China and Japan Modern Delhi  

Post  Graduate   Labour History, University of Delhi Gender and Histories of Work, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen  

Research Guidance

Publications Profile in APA Format Books  

Bellucci, S., Corrêa, L. R., Deutsch, J-G. Joshi. C. (2015). Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South, c1750-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107521179 Joshi, C., (2003). Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories. New Delhi: Permanent Black. ISBN 81-7824-022- X Joshi, C. (2005). Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories. London: Anthem, ISBN 1 84331 128 3(Hbk), ISBN 1 84331 129 1(Pbk) Joshi, C. (2003). Labour History and the Question of Culture (NLI research studies series, no. 048/2003, VV  Giri  National  Institute  of  Labour,  Noida)   Chapters in Books 1.Joshi, C. (2013). Public Works and the Question of Unfree Labour.in A. Stanziani (Ed.) Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th -20th Centuries (pp.273-287). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-23112-2 2.Joshi, C. (2012). Dak Roads, Runners and the Re-Ordering of Communication Networks. in M. V. D. Linden and L. Lucassen eds. Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen www.ipcollege.ac.in  

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(pp.75-97). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978 90 04 22952 5 3.Behal, R.P.Joshi, C., & Mohapatra P.P. (2010). India. in J. A. A. Campbell, J. Mcllroy eds. Histories of Labour, National and International Perspectives. Pontypool: Merlin. (pp.290-314). ISBN 9780850366877 (paperback); 9780850366860 (hardback) 4.Joshi, C. (2009). Despair: The Decline of the Kanpur Textile Mills in M. Mollona, G. D Neve, & J. Parry (Eds.). Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Berg. (pp.331-339). ISBN 978 1 84788 076 5 (Cloth); 978 1 84788 074 1 (Paper) 5.Joshi, C. (2009). Fettered Bodies: Labouring on Public Works in Nineteenth-Century India. in M. V. D. Linden & P. P. Mohapatra eds. Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories, Studies in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. (pp.3-21). New Delhi: Tulika. ISBN 978-81-89487-50-8 6. Joshi, C. (2005). Between Work and Domesticity: Gender and Household Strategies in Working-Class Families in S. Bhattacharya & J. Lucassen (Eds.), Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History 1800-2000. (pp.161-176). Delhi: Macmillan. ISBN 1403 92503 8 7.Joshi, C. (2002) Redefining Work and Domesticity: Gender and Household Strategies in Working Class Families. (2002). in J. Ehmer, H. Grebing and P. Gutchner (Eds.) Arbeit: Geschischte-Gegenwart-Zukunft, (pp. 193-208). Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 3931982-28-9 8.Joshi. C. (1999). Hope and Despair: Textile Workers in Kanpur in 1937-38 and the1990s in J.Parry, J. Breman & K. Kapadia ed. The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour. (pp.171-204). New Delhi: Sage. ISBN 0-7619-9395-9 (US –HB); 81-7036-872-3 (India-HB) 9. Joshi. C. (1992). The Formation of Work Culture: Industrial Labour in a North Indian City (1890s -1940s). in Gerard Heuze ed. Travailler en Inde, Collection Purusartha: 14. (pp.155172). Paris: Ecole Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales.1992 ISBN 27132 0980 3

Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals (National/International) 1. Bellucci, S., Corrêa, L. R., Deutsch, J-G. Joshi. C. (2014). Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South, C. 1750-1950. International Review of Social History, 59 (S22), 1-10. 2.Joshi.C. (2012) Dak Roads, Runners and the Re-Ordering of Communication Networks. International Review of Social History, 57(2), 169-189. 3.Joshi. C. (2009). Espacos do trabalho e historia social na India. Estudos Historicos, 22(43), 530. 4.Joshi, C. (2009). Além Da Polêmica Do Provedor: Mulheres, Trabalho E História Do Trabalho, Mundos do Trabalho, 1((2), 147-170. 5. Joshi, C. (2008). Histories of Indian Labour: Predicaments and Possibilities, History www.ipcollege.ac.in  

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Compass, 6(2), 439-454. 6. Joshi, C. (2002). Notes on the Breadwinner Debate: Gender And Household Strategies In Working Class Families', Studies in History, 18(2), 261-74. 7.Joshi, C. (2002). Deindustrialization and the Crisis of Male Identities, International Review of Social History, 47(10), 159-175. 8. Joshi, C. (1999). Hope and Despair: Textile Workers in Kanpur 1937-38 and the1990s, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 33 (1-2), 171-203. 9. Joshi, C. (1985). Bonds of Community and Ties of Religion: Kanpur Textile Workers in the Early Twentieth Century, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22(3), 251-80. 11.Joshi, C. (1981). Kanpur Textile Labour: Some Structural Features of Formative Years, Economic and Political Weekly, 16 (44-46), 1823-38.

Conference Organization/ Presentations

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Conferences, Workshops etc 1. Joshi, C. (July 2017). Work, Body and Time: Understanding Labour Regimes Beyond the Factory. Paper presented at the Final Conference Fellow Year 2016/17, Re-work, Humboldt University, Berlin. 2. Joshi, C. (June, 2017). The Promise of the 1950s and the Politics of Labour in the Post-Independence Decade in India. Paper presented at the International Conference on Workers of the World: Exploring Global Perspectives on Labour from the 1950s to the Present, Hannover, 3. Joshi, C. (June 2017). The Promise of the 1950s and the Politics of Labour in the Post-Independence Decade in India, Paper presented at Modern South Asian History Research Seminar at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen.

5 July, 2017

28-30 June, 2017

12 June, 2017

23 May, 2017

4. Joshi, C. (May 2017). Narratives of Work. Panel discussion at International Workshop on History, Memory and the Archives of Experience: Oral Histories of Labour in South Asia at Re-work, Humboldt University, Berlin. 25 April, 2017 5. Joshi, C. (April, 2017). Masters and Servants on the Road: Palanquin Bearers and Travellers in 19th Century India. Colloquium, University of Vienna. 6. Joshi, C. (2017, February). Time, Work and Wages: Regulation Labour on the Road at Colloquium Re-Work, Humboldt University, www.ipcollege.ac.in  

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Berlin. 7. Joshi, C. (2016, November). The Promise of the 1950s: the Politics of Labour in Post-Independence India, Keynote Address at the IV International Worlds of Labor Conference, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil.

22 November 2016

8. Joshi, C., Chander, N., Mohapatra, P.P. (2016, September). Workers’ Struggle Against Informality: Chronicles of Two Strikes in India Keynote lecture at International Workshop on Between the State and the Site of Production: the Making of Informal Labour Relations at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

26 September 2016

9. Joshi, C. (2013, October). Form and Meaning in Oral History, Oral History Workshop, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

19 October 2013

10. Joshi, C. (2013, April). Charting the Terrain: New Frontiers of Labour History in India, at the International Conference on New Cultures of the Left organized by Historical Materialism at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 11. Joshi, C. (2013, March). Labour History and the Dalit Question. Paper presented at Workshop on Exploring Entanglements of Caste and Class in Histories of Labour. V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida 12. Joshi, C. (January, 2013) Doing Labour History Today. Paper presented at Workshop on Labour and Social Change in India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

5 April 2013

21 March 2013

18 January 2013

13. Joshi, C. (August, 2008). Spaces of Labour: Indian Social History 26 August 2008 in an International Perspective. Paper presented at CPDOC, Rio de Janiero. 14. Joshi, C. (August, 2008). Spaces of Labour: Indian Social History 29 August 2008 in an International Perspective. Paper presented at Campinas State University (UNICAMP), Brazil. 15. Joshi, C. (August 2008). Women, Work and the Writing of Labour History. Paper presented at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

1 Sept 2008

16. Joshi, C. (September, 2008) Women, Work and the Writing of Labour History. Paper presented at the Centre for Latin American Studies, University Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2 September 2008

17. Joshi, C. (September, 2007). Public Works and the Question of Unfree Labour in 19th Century India. Paper presented at International Workshop on ‘Legal Bondage and Legal constraints on Labour Mobility in the Euroasiatic Space, 18th-21st century’ at the Maison

27 September 2007

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des Sciences de L ‘Homme, Paris. 18. Joshi, C. (December, 2006). Notes on Free Unfree labour. Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Labor History and the Question of Freedom and Unfreedom at Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin. 19. Joshi, C. (July, 2006). Fettered Bodies: Public Works and Convict Labour in Nineteenth Century. Paper presented at International Conference on Re-thinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African Labour History in International Context, at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 20. Joshi, C. (December, 2005). Histories of Labour: Notes Towards a Renewal. Paper presented at International Conference on Writing Social Histories: Asian Historiographies and Political Regimes, Gadjah Mada University,Yogjakarta, Indonesia. 21. Joshi, C. (December, 2004). Fettered Labour: Convicts and Road Labour in the Nineteenth Century. Paper presented at Social Science Research Council, New York, workshop at Raichak, Kolkata. 22. Joshi, C. (July, 2005). Writing Labour History: Problems and Possibilities. Paper presented at International workshop on World Economies, Local Communities: Setting an Agenda for a Global Labour History organized by Munk Centre, University of Toronto, at Hyderabad.

14-16 December, 2006

28-31 July, 2006

16-17 December, 2005 12-16 December, 2004

23-5 July, 2005

23. Joshi, C. (July, 2005). Post-Colonialism and Labour History. Paper presented at International workshop on World Economies, Local Communities: Setting an Agenda for a Global Labour History at Hyderabad, organized by Munk Centre, University of Toronto,

23-5 July, 2005.

24. Joshi, C. (September, 2005). Women, Work and the Writing of Labour History. Paper presented at seminar on Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women at, organized by Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Jamia Hamdard Convention Centre, New Delhi.

15-17 September 2005

25. Joshi, C. (October, 2005). Oral History and Labour History at Workshop on Research Methods in Labour History, organized by the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida.

6 October 2005

26. Joshi, C. (May, 2004). Marginalisation of labour and the Experience of Democracy, Conference on The Promise of Freedom and its Practice, WISER, University of Witwatersrand.

17-22 May 2004

27. Joshi, C. (May, 2004). Liberalisation, Informalisation and Labour’, Conference on The Promise of Freedom and its Practice, WISER, University of Witwatersrand.

17-22 May, 2004

28. Joshi, C (March, 2004). Labour on the Roads: Convicts and www.ipcollege.ac.in  

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Runaways in Nineteenth Century India. Paper Presented at the 1Vth International Conference of the Association of Indian Labour Historians, VV Giri National Institute of Labour.

18-20 March, 2004

29. Joshi, C. (August, 2003). On Recovering Women's Voices: Oral History and Working Class Lives. Paper presented at Panel on Reconstructing Asian Popular Histories: Problems and Issues of Oral Narratives ICAS, Singapore.

19-23 August, 2003

30. Joshi, C. (March 2002). On Personal Narratives and Working Class Lives. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Labour History organized by the Association of Indian Labour Historians, V. V. Giri National Institute of Labour, Noida.

16-18 March, 2002

31. Joshi, C. (November, 2001). Revisiting the Male Breadwinner Debate: Gender and Domesticity in Working Class Families. Paper presented at workshop on Gender and History organised by the Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

29-30 November, 2001

32. Joshi, C. (September, 2001). Work and Household Strategies in ‘Deindustrializing’ India', Paper presented at International Conference on Work - History Present organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz, Austria.

Sept.11-15, 2001

33. Joshi, C. (June, 2001). Between Work and Domesticity: Gender and Household Strategies in Working Class Families. Paper Presented at Workshop on 'Historical and Conceptual Issues in Labour History in Countries of the South, organized by SEPHIS at El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico. 34. Joshi, C. (March, 2001). Remembering and Forgetting. Paper Presented at Asian Workshop on Oral History, organized by CLARA and IISH Amsterdam at Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, PILER, Karachi. 35. Joshi, C. (September, 2000). Oral History: Problems and Possibilities, Paper Presented at Workshop on Oral History at the NM Joshi Centre for Labour Research and Education, New Delhi. 36. Joshi, C. (March, 2000). Making Spaces: Women Work and Domesticity. Paper Presented at the Second International Conference on Indian Labour History organized by the Association of Indian Labour Historians at the VV Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. 37. Joshi, C. (January, 1999). The Question of Culture. Paper presented at Workshop on Writing Labour History at the VV Giri Institute of Labour, Noida.

27-29 June, 2001

9-11 March, 2001

26 Sept, 2000 16-18 Mar 2000.

28 Jan.1999

38. Joshi, C. (March,1998). Remembering Lost Times: The Pasts of Indian Labour. Paper presented at the First International Conference of March, 1998 www.ipcollege.ac.in  

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the Association of Indian Labour Historians, N Delhi.. 39. Joshi, C. (December, 1997). Hope and Despair: Textile Workers in North India in the 1930s and 1990s, Paper presented at International Conference on The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour at Amsterdam.

9-13, December, 1997

40. Joshi, C. (October, 1995). Defining their Worlds: Kanpur Workers in the Colonial Period, Paper presented at International Workshop on South Asian Labour: Linkages Global and Local, Amsterdam.

26- 28, October, 1995

41. Joshi, C. (August 1990). Formation of the Textile Labour Force in Colonial India: A Comparative Perspective', Paper for International Economic History Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

August,1990

Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)

Awards and Distinctions 1. Fellowship, 2016-2017. Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin. 2. SSRC South Asia Regional Fellowship 2004. 3. Charles Wallace Trust 1986. 4. Junior Research Fellowship, Nehru Memorial Museum and library 1983-1985. Association With Professional Bodies International Committees: 1. Member Module Committee TM2, ‘Labour as a Political Category’, 2014, International Centre for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bonn, Germany from 2014 till date. 2. Advisory Board, Global Labour Migration Network, University of Maryland, USA, 2016 till date National 1. Advisory Committee of the PC Joshi Archives of Contemporary History, Jawaharlal Nehru University from 2014 -2016. 2. Member, Book Selection Committee, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2014-2015. 3. Coordinator, Sub-theme 10, Women, Labour and Questions of Marginalisation, Indian Association of Women’s Studies (IAWS), Conference on Resisting Marginalisation, Challenging Hegemonies: Re-visioning Gender Politics, Wardha, 21-24 January 2011.   www.ipcollege.ac.in  

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4. Member, Executive Committee, Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) 1998 to date.     Editorial Boards: 1. Editorial Board of Brill Studies in Global History, Leiden, Netherlands since 2009 till date 2. Board of Revista Ciências do Trabalho (Labour Sciences Journal, University of Sao Paolo 1SSN 2319-0574) since 2013 till date

Other Activities  

1. Member, Committee of Courses for Honours, Post-Graduate and Research Studies, 20152016. 2. Convenor, Syllabus Revision Committee, History of Modern Europe 1780-1939, Department of History University of Delhi, January –June 2016 Member, Joint Committee of Courses for Honours Post-Graduate and Research Studies, 3. Department of History, University of Delhi, January – July 2016 4. Member curriculum committee on Women in the Economy, Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2011. 5. Member History syllabus revision sub-committee for Modern Indian History and History of Europe, Department of History, University of Delhi, 1998.  

  Resource Person: 1.Summer Academy on ‘Work and Non-Work in Global Perspective’ 9 - 16 August 2015,Organized by the International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in cooperation with Institute of Critical Transnational Studies and History Department, Sogang University, Seoul, 2015  

2. Workshop on ‘Cities Work and Politics’ organized by CACIM (India) at Sambhaavna Institute of Public Policy and Politics, Palampur 27-28 March 2015 3. Oral History Training Workshop, organised by International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Karachi the 9-11 March, 2001  

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