Postdoctoral Researcher
ZMO, Berlin
Kirchweg 33
DE
14129 Berlin
Ritam.Sengupta@zmo.de
https://www.zmo.de/personen/ritam-sengupta
Timely Histories: Timing work in the North Indian countryside, c. 1800s-1900shttps://www.zmo.de/forschung/timely-histories/timely-histories-1-4
PhD thesis:Electricity before Independence: Colonial Calcutta an the Politics of Technology, 1880s-1930s.
Publications:Exploring big data for development: An electricity sector case study from India.R Sengupta, R Heeks, S Chattapadhyay, C Foster. Development Informatics Working Paper 14, 2017.Datafication, value and power in developing countries: Big data in two Indian public service organizations. R Heeks, V Rakesh, R Sengupta, S Chattapadhyay, C Foster. Development Policy Review 39 (1), 82-102 3 2021.Keeping the master cool, every day, all day: Punkah-pulling in colonial India.R Sengupta.The Indian Economic & Social History Review 59 (1), 37-73.2022.The Small Town in India: 'Subaltern Urbanisation' and Beyond. R SenguptaRefugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration 50, 58-79 2017.
Academia:https://cssscal.academia.edu/RitamSengupta
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ouNhIoEAAAAJ&hl=en
Histories of energy, electricity, environment, time.