Parijat Chakrabarti
Biographic Data
| ID | 259199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Parijat Chakrabarti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Parijat |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakrabarti |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRABARTI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3550-3161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Brown Skins, White Coats
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans
This study considers socially stratified take-up of income-driven repayment plans among federal student loan borrowers with high-debt payment obligations. Qualitative analyses of borrower complaints from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are used to document borrowers’ experiences of administrative burden in the federal loan repayment system. The combined effects of burdens on access to payment relief programs are quantified using both adm…
Jim Downs. Maladies of Empire
Journal Article Jim Downs. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Get access Jim Downs. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 262. Cloth $29.95. Pratik Chakrabarti Pratik Chakrabarti University of Houston, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-3161 Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Aboriginality on the Move
This Afterword reflects on the various contributions to this Special Issue and explores the paradoxical conceptualisation of human aboriginality and prehistory in terms of migration. While on the one hand, aboriginality is deeply situated to a particular place, sometimes to a cave, or even a single rock or a slab of stone, it is often conceptualised through frames of migration of prehistoric humans. This exploration, therefore, allows us to under…
Accounting for Credit
This article examines differing accounts of how and why consumers use credit as well as the consequences of credit for inequality and social solidarity. We articulate these explanations as ( a) political economy, ( b) racialized, ( c) relational, and ( d) ranked accounts. The first account looks to the political economy to understand what drives credit use and its consequences. In the second, access to credit and the terms of access depend on the…
The Age of Intoxication
Reviewed by: The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen Pratik Chakrabarti Benjamin Breen. The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii + 280 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-8122-5178-4). The Age of Intoxication traces the premodern history of drugs, a period when, author Benjamin Breen argues, categories such as licit/illic…
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects
Malaria presents complex challenges for historians. In official mortality statistics in India in the nineteenth century, it was often placed within the broad and ambiguous category of ‘fevers’. Yet, it is one of the most distinctive diseases of the twentieth century, with clear diagnostic, ecological and cultural connotations. Rohan Deb Roy rejects the retrospective frames of malaria to approach it through fresh intellectual, cultural and politic…
Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past
Gondwana presents the overlapping narratives of antiquity. A densely forested region in central India, it was named after the Gonds living there, whom British explorers believed to be the aboriginal tribes of India. In these dense forests British geologists believed they had found the oldest rock systems of India. These primitive forests and rocks became the foundation for theories of the existence of a prehistoric southern supercontinent. The Au…
Materials and medicine
Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. It studies the expansion of medicine as it acquired new materials and methods in an age of discovery and shows how eighteenth-century therapeutics encapsulates the intellectual and material resources of c…
A mixed-methods framework for analyzing text data
Automated text analysis is widely used across the social sciences, yet the application of these methods has largely proceeded independently of qualitative analysis
The World Rests on the Back of a Tortoise
This article traces the consilience of science and mythology in the history of fossil research in India: this is a narrative in which Indian fossil research met the Orientalist discovery of the Indian past. It demonstrates that in exploring the geological evolution of Indian fossils, British researchers such as Hugh Falconer invoked animals from thePuranas, picking up on a tradition of mythological hermeneutics first developed in India by the lik…
Contesting Colonial Authority
Reviewed by: Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India ed. by Poonam Bala Pratik Chakrabarti Poonam Bala, ed. Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. ix + 157 pp. No price given. (978-0-7391-7023-6). The history of contestation and negotiation between Western and indigenous medi…
Purifying the River
This article explores the river as a site of urban modernity in India. At the heart of this article is the colonial project of purifying the water of the river Hooghly for the domestic supply of Calcutta. The British built the first water purification system for the city around the middle of the nineteenth century at Pulta. Around this theme, the article explores the various discourses and practices of pollution, purity and purification taking pl…
Bacteriology in British India
Moral Geographies of Tropical Bacteriology
Empire and Alternatives
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.
"Living versus Dead"
The Semple antirabies vaccine was developed by David Semple in India in 1911. Semple introduced a peculiarly British approach within the Pasteurian tradition by using carbolized dead virus. This article studies this unique phase of vaccine research between 1910 and 1935 to show that in the debates and laboratory experiments around the potency and safety of vaccines, categories like "living" and "dead" were often used as ideological and moral deno…
Beasts of Burden
From the late nineteenth century, colonial India experienced a sustained institutionalization of bacteriology. Several laboratories were established starting with the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory at Poona (1890); the Bacteriological Laboratory at Agra (1892); the Plague Research Laboratory in Bombay (1896); the Pasteur Institutes of India at Kasauli (1900), Coonoor (1907), Rangoon (1916), Shillong (1917) and Calcutta (1924); and the Centra…
Signs of the Times
Medical practice and research in colonial India historically had been an imperial preserve, dominated by the elite members of the Indian Medical Service. This was contested from the 1900s on by the emerging Indian nationalism. This essay studies debates about the establishment of a medical research institution and how actors imposed the political identities of nationalism on British colonial practices of medical science. At the same time, Indian …
Social History of Science in Colonial India . Edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina.
"Neither of meate nor drinke, but what the Doctor alloweth"
Madras in the eighteenth century was a site of continuous warfare sparked mostly by trading interests. This paper studies how these influences of hostility and commerce shaped the medical establishment of the English East India Company. It begins by analyzing the struggle of the medical establishment to cope with military and logistical requirements; it then shows how the Coromandel trade provided a peculiar dynamic to the practice of medicine in…
Urban crisis in India
At 300 million, the urban population of India is still less than one third of its total population. It is projected that by 2045 nearly 800 million Indians will be living in its cities - more than the total population of the whole of present-day Europe. Already, the infrastructures of all the six mega- and 40 million-plus cities of India are under very severe stress. The ground water is depleting rapidly, pollution is reaching crisis levels, the …
Beasts of Burden
From the late nineteenth century, colonial India experienced a sustained institutionalization of bacteriology. Several laboratories were established starting with the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory at Poona (1890); the Bacteriological Laboratory at Agra (1892); the Plague Research Laboratory in Bombay (1896); the Pasteur Institutes of India at Kasauli (1900), Coonoor (1907), Rangoon (1916), Shillong (1917) and Calcutta (1924); and the Centra…
Accounting for Credit
This article examines differing accounts of how and why consumers use credit as well as the consequences of credit for inequality and social solidarity. We articulate these explanations as ( a) political economy, ( b) racialized, ( c) relational, and ( d) ranked accounts. The first account looks to the political economy to understand what drives credit use and its consequences. In the second, access to credit and the terms of access depend on the…
Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past
Gondwana presents the overlapping narratives of antiquity. A densely forested region in central India, it was named after the Gonds living there, whom British explorers believed to be the aboriginal tribes of India. In these dense forests British geologists believed they had found the oldest rock systems of India. These primitive forests and rocks became the foundation for theories of the existence of a prehistoric southern supercontinent. The Au…
A mixed-methods framework for analyzing text data
Automated text analysis is widely used across the social sciences, yet the application of these methods has largely proceeded independently of qualitative analysis
Signs of the Times
Medical practice and research in colonial India historically had been an imperial preserve, dominated by the elite members of the Indian Medical Service. This was contested from the 1900s on by the emerging Indian nationalism. This essay studies debates about the establishment of a medical research institution and how actors imposed the political identities of nationalism on British colonial practices of medical science. At the same time, Indian …
Urban crisis in India
At 300 million, the urban population of India is still less than one third of its total population. It is projected that by 2045 nearly 800 million Indians will be living in its cities - more than the total population of the whole of present-day Europe. Already, the infrastructures of all the six mega- and 40 million-plus cities of India are under very severe stress. The ground water is depleting rapidly, pollution is reaching crisis levels, the …
The World Rests on the Back of a Tortoise
This article traces the consilience of science and mythology in the history of fossil research in India: this is a narrative in which Indian fossil research met the Orientalist discovery of the Indian past. It demonstrates that in exploring the geological evolution of Indian fossils, British researchers such as Hugh Falconer invoked animals from thePuranas, picking up on a tradition of mythological hermeneutics first developed in India by the lik…
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans
This study considers socially stratified take-up of income-driven repayment plans among federal student loan borrowers with high-debt payment obligations. Qualitative analyses of borrower complaints from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are used to document borrowers’ experiences of administrative burden in the federal loan repayment system. The combined effects of burdens on access to payment relief programs are quantified using both adm…
Urban crisis in India
At 300 million, the urban population of India is still less than one third of its total population. It is projected that by 2045 nearly 800 million Indians will be living in its cities - more than the total population of the whole of present-day Europe. Already, the infrastructures of all the six mega- and 40 million-plus cities of India are under very severe stress. The ground water is depleting rapidly, pollution is reaching crisis levels, the …
"Neither of meate nor drinke, but what the Doctor alloweth"
Madras in the eighteenth century was a site of continuous warfare sparked mostly by trading interests. This paper studies how these influences of hostility and commerce shaped the medical establishment of the English East India Company. It begins by analyzing the struggle of the medical establishment to cope with military and logistical requirements; it then shows how the Coromandel trade provided a peculiar dynamic to the practice of medicine in…
Social History of Science in Colonial India . Edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina.
Signs of the Times
Medical practice and research in colonial India historically had been an imperial preserve, dominated by the elite members of the Indian Medical Service. This was contested from the 1900s on by the emerging Indian nationalism. This essay studies debates about the establishment of a medical research institution and how actors imposed the political identities of nationalism on British colonial practices of medical science. At the same time, Indian …
Empire and Alternatives
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.
"Living versus Dead"
The Semple antirabies vaccine was developed by David Semple in India in 1911. Semple introduced a peculiarly British approach within the Pasteurian tradition by using carbolized dead virus. This article studies this unique phase of vaccine research between 1910 and 1935 to show that in the debates and laboratory experiments around the potency and safety of vaccines, categories like "living" and "dead" were often used as ideological and moral deno…
Beasts of Burden
From the late nineteenth century, colonial India experienced a sustained institutionalization of bacteriology. Several laboratories were established starting with the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory at Poona (1890); the Bacteriological Laboratory at Agra (1892); the Plague Research Laboratory in Bombay (1896); the Pasteur Institutes of India at Kasauli (1900), Coonoor (1907), Rangoon (1916), Shillong (1917) and Calcutta (1924); and the Centra…
Bacteriology in British India
Moral Geographies of Tropical Bacteriology
Contesting Colonial Authority
Reviewed by: Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India ed. by Poonam Bala Pratik Chakrabarti Poonam Bala, ed. Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. ix + 157 pp. No price given. (978-0-7391-7023-6). The history of contestation and negotiation between Western and indigenous medi…
Purifying the River
This article explores the river as a site of urban modernity in India. At the heart of this article is the colonial project of purifying the water of the river Hooghly for the domestic supply of Calcutta. The British built the first water purification system for the city around the middle of the nineteenth century at Pulta. Around this theme, the article explores the various discourses and practices of pollution, purity and purification taking pl…
The World Rests on the Back of a Tortoise
This article traces the consilience of science and mythology in the history of fossil research in India: this is a narrative in which Indian fossil research met the Orientalist discovery of the Indian past. It demonstrates that in exploring the geological evolution of Indian fossils, British researchers such as Hugh Falconer invoked animals from thePuranas, picking up on a tradition of mythological hermeneutics first developed in India by the lik…
Materials and medicine
Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. It studies the expansion of medicine as it acquired new materials and methods in an age of discovery and shows how eighteenth-century therapeutics encapsulates the intellectual and material resources of c…
A mixed-methods framework for analyzing text data
Automated text analysis is widely used across the social sciences, yet the application of these methods has largely proceeded independently of qualitative analysis
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects
Malaria presents complex challenges for historians. In official mortality statistics in India in the nineteenth century, it was often placed within the broad and ambiguous category of ‘fevers’. Yet, it is one of the most distinctive diseases of the twentieth century, with clear diagnostic, ecological and cultural connotations. Rohan Deb Roy rejects the retrospective frames of malaria to approach it through fresh intellectual, cultural and politic…
Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past
Gondwana presents the overlapping narratives of antiquity. A densely forested region in central India, it was named after the Gonds living there, whom British explorers believed to be the aboriginal tribes of India. In these dense forests British geologists believed they had found the oldest rock systems of India. These primitive forests and rocks became the foundation for theories of the existence of a prehistoric southern supercontinent. The Au…
The Age of Intoxication
Reviewed by: The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen Pratik Chakrabarti Benjamin Breen. The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii + 280 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-8122-5178-4). The Age of Intoxication traces the premodern history of drugs, a period when, author Benjamin Breen argues, categories such as licit/illic…
Aboriginality on the Move
This Afterword reflects on the various contributions to this Special Issue and explores the paradoxical conceptualisation of human aboriginality and prehistory in terms of migration. While on the one hand, aboriginality is deeply situated to a particular place, sometimes to a cave, or even a single rock or a slab of stone, it is often conceptualised through frames of migration of prehistoric humans. This exploration, therefore, allows us to under…
Accounting for Credit
This article examines differing accounts of how and why consumers use credit as well as the consequences of credit for inequality and social solidarity. We articulate these explanations as ( a) political economy, ( b) racialized, ( c) relational, and ( d) ranked accounts. The first account looks to the political economy to understand what drives credit use and its consequences. In the second, access to credit and the terms of access depend on the…
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans
This study considers socially stratified take-up of income-driven repayment plans among federal student loan borrowers with high-debt payment obligations. Qualitative analyses of borrower complaints from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are used to document borrowers’ experiences of administrative burden in the federal loan repayment system. The combined effects of burdens on access to payment relief programs are quantified using both adm…
Jim Downs. Maladies of Empire
Journal Article Jim Downs. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Get access Jim Downs. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 262. Cloth $29.95. Pratik Chakrabarti Pratik Chakrabarti University of Houston, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-3161 Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Brown Skins, White Coats
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