Ravi Ahuja
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi Ahuja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahuja |
| SIGNATURE | AHUJA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Roundtable of Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás, Capitalism and the Sea
In Place of an Afterword
This afterword to “The German Connection” comments on the ideological context that South Asian intellectuals encountered in interwar Germany. “Toxic entanglements” with this highly charged, combative, and diverse intellectual environment provided them, in particular, with a wide variety of organicist and communitarian building blocks for projects of cultural nationalism
Produce or Perish'. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in post-colonial India
This article argues that the late 1940s in India should no longer be reduced to the twin events of partition and independence. A generalized political crisis unsettled, for a brief period, the structures of social and economic power, and not just intercommunity relations and the constitution of the state. These years were thus, among other things, a catalytic moment for the definition of 'labour' as both a political category and a parameter of po…
A Beveridge Plan for India? Social Insurance and the Making of the “Formal Sector”
The article explores the history of the Employees’ State Insurance Act of 1948 (ESI), a law enacted in the first year of Indian independence. Global trends in social policy had influenced debates on a social insurance for Indian workers since the 1920s. Transformations of Indian industry, World War II, the post-war crisis, and the emerging economic policy of the postcolonial State then created conditions for legislation. Just as the international…
Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience
Research Article| April 01 2012 Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience Ravi Ahuja Ravi Ahuja Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of modern South Asia whose research interests have included urban labor relations in eighteenth-century South India, social conflicts over “public works” under colonial capitalism, the experiences of Indian peasant-soldiers in World War I Europe, and In…
World in World Wars
The World in World Wars
The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their intersections. Drawing substantially on new sources such as oral accounts, propaganda material and artistic representations, the publication investigates the e…
Pathways of Empire
On the transportation, public works initiatives and economic changes of the period in Orissa, India; a study
Making the Empire a Thinkable Whole
“[T]he question really comes to this”, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough proclaimed during a labour trial before the King's Bench in 1817, “whether the master or the servant is to have the superior authority” (pp. 59–60). The draconian punishment imposed on the accused “servants” by England's highest-ranking judge left no doubts as to his beliefs concerning the answer to this question
Mobility and Containment
In the political and economic context of imperialism, the enormous nineteenth-century expansion of shipping within and beyond the Indian Ocean facilitated the development of a new and increasingly transcontinental regime of labour circulation. The Indian subcontinent, it is well known, emerged as a seemingly inexhaustible source for plantation, railway, and port labour in British colonies across the globe. Moreover, the new and predominantly seab…
Opening up the Country'? Patterns of Circulation and Politics of Communication in Early Colonial Orissa
Sanjay Sharma, Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State. North India in the Early Nineteenth Century
State formation and 'famine policy' in early colonial south India
Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context
I. Introduction Since the 1990s, academic fashion has rediscovered and revamped theories of the 'clash of civilizations' (or rather, of the solipsism of cultures) that had already been popularized successfully in the early years of our 'age of extremes' by conservative ideologues like the German Oswald Spengler. Indian 'indigenism' appears to be another subsidiary branch of that ideological current. Recent writings on India's colonial period thus…
Expropriating the Poor
The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-Century Madras
This article challenges the view that the English East India Company was unable effectively to dominate society in the colonial metropolis of Madras before the end of the eighteenth century. Instead it is argued that colonial interventions, even into the social organization of labour, were persistent in goals and methods and acquired institutional forms in the latter half of the century. Hence an early colonial labour policy is clearly discernibl…
Labour unsettled
Mobility and Containment
In the political and economic context of imperialism, the enormous nineteenth-century expansion of shipping within and beyond the Indian Ocean facilitated the development of a new and increasingly transcontinental regime of labour circulation. The Indian subcontinent, it is well known, emerged as a seemingly inexhaustible source for plantation, railway, and port labour in British colonies across the globe. Moreover, the new and predominantly seab…
Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context
I. Introduction Since the 1990s, academic fashion has rediscovered and revamped theories of the 'clash of civilizations' (or rather, of the solipsism of cultures) that had already been popularized successfully in the early years of our 'age of extremes' by conservative ideologues like the German Oswald Spengler. Indian 'indigenism' appears to be another subsidiary branch of that ideological current. Recent writings on India's colonial period thus…
Produce or Perish'. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in post-colonial India
This article argues that the late 1940s in India should no longer be reduced to the twin events of partition and independence. A generalized political crisis unsettled, for a brief period, the structures of social and economic power, and not just intercommunity relations and the constitution of the state. These years were thus, among other things, a catalytic moment for the definition of 'labour' as both a political category and a parameter of po…
The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-Century Madras
This article challenges the view that the English East India Company was unable effectively to dominate society in the colonial metropolis of Madras before the end of the eighteenth century. Instead it is argued that colonial interventions, even into the social organization of labour, were persistent in goals and methods and acquired institutional forms in the latter half of the century. Hence an early colonial labour policy is clearly discernibl…
The World in World Wars
The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their intersections. Drawing substantially on new sources such as oral accounts, propaganda material and artistic representations, the publication investigates the e…
State formation and 'famine policy' in early colonial south India
Labour unsettled
A Beveridge Plan for India? Social Insurance and the Making of the “Formal Sector”
The article explores the history of the Employees’ State Insurance Act of 1948 (ESI), a law enacted in the first year of Indian independence. Global trends in social policy had influenced debates on a social insurance for Indian workers since the 1920s. Transformations of Indian industry, World War II, the post-war crisis, and the emerging economic policy of the postcolonial State then created conditions for legislation. Just as the international…
Opening up the Country'? Patterns of Circulation and Politics of Communication in Early Colonial Orissa
Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience
Research Article| April 01 2012 Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience Ravi Ahuja Ravi Ahuja Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of modern South Asia whose research interests have included urban labor relations in eighteenth-century South India, social conflicts over “public works” under colonial capitalism, the experiences of Indian peasant-soldiers in World War I Europe, and In…
Expropriating the Poor
Making the Empire a Thinkable Whole
“[T]he question really comes to this”, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough proclaimed during a labour trial before the King's Bench in 1817, “whether the master or the servant is to have the superior authority” (pp. 59–60). The draconian punishment imposed on the accused “servants” by England's highest-ranking judge left no doubts as to his beliefs concerning the answer to this question
Roundtable of Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás, Capitalism and the Sea
Labour unsettled
The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-Century Madras
This article challenges the view that the English East India Company was unable effectively to dominate society in the colonial metropolis of Madras before the end of the eighteenth century. Instead it is argued that colonial interventions, even into the social organization of labour, were persistent in goals and methods and acquired institutional forms in the latter half of the century. Hence an early colonial labour policy is clearly discernibl…
Expropriating the Poor
Sanjay Sharma, Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State. North India in the Early Nineteenth Century
State formation and 'famine policy' in early colonial south India
Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context
I. Introduction Since the 1990s, academic fashion has rediscovered and revamped theories of the 'clash of civilizations' (or rather, of the solipsism of cultures) that had already been popularized successfully in the early years of our 'age of extremes' by conservative ideologues like the German Oswald Spengler. Indian 'indigenism' appears to be another subsidiary branch of that ideological current. Recent writings on India's colonial period thus…
Opening up the Country'? Patterns of Circulation and Politics of Communication in Early Colonial Orissa
Mobility and Containment
In the political and economic context of imperialism, the enormous nineteenth-century expansion of shipping within and beyond the Indian Ocean facilitated the development of a new and increasingly transcontinental regime of labour circulation. The Indian subcontinent, it is well known, emerged as a seemingly inexhaustible source for plantation, railway, and port labour in British colonies across the globe. Moreover, the new and predominantly seab…
Making the Empire a Thinkable Whole
“[T]he question really comes to this”, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough proclaimed during a labour trial before the King's Bench in 1817, “whether the master or the servant is to have the superior authority” (pp. 59–60). The draconian punishment imposed on the accused “servants” by England's highest-ranking judge left no doubts as to his beliefs concerning the answer to this question
Pathways of Empire
On the transportation, public works initiatives and economic changes of the period in Orissa, India; a study
World in World Wars
The World in World Wars
The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their intersections. Drawing substantially on new sources such as oral accounts, propaganda material and artistic representations, the publication investigates the e…
Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience
Research Article| April 01 2012 Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience Ravi Ahuja Ravi Ahuja Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of modern South Asia whose research interests have included urban labor relations in eighteenth-century South India, social conflicts over “public works” under colonial capitalism, the experiences of Indian peasant-soldiers in World War I Europe, and In…
A Beveridge Plan for India? Social Insurance and the Making of the “Formal Sector”
The article explores the history of the Employees’ State Insurance Act of 1948 (ESI), a law enacted in the first year of Indian independence. Global trends in social policy had influenced debates on a social insurance for Indian workers since the 1920s. Transformations of Indian industry, World War II, the post-war crisis, and the emerging economic policy of the postcolonial State then created conditions for legislation. Just as the international…
In Place of an Afterword
This afterword to “The German Connection” comments on the ideological context that South Asian intellectuals encountered in interwar Germany. “Toxic entanglements” with this highly charged, combative, and diverse intellectual environment provided them, in particular, with a wide variety of organicist and communitarian building blocks for projects of cultural nationalism
Produce or Perish'. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in post-colonial India
This article argues that the late 1940s in India should no longer be reduced to the twin events of partition and independence. A generalized political crisis unsettled, for a brief period, the structures of social and economic power, and not just intercommunity relations and the constitution of the state. These years were thus, among other things, a catalytic moment for the definition of 'labour' as both a political category and a parameter of po…
Roundtable of Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás, Capitalism and the Sea
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