Dr Saurabh Mishra 

Lecturer in History: post 1800

Office Hours: Spring 2012-13 - Tuesdays 11am-12pm; Wednesdays 12-1pm

s.mishra@sheffield.ac.uk
 

+44 (0)114 22 22617
 

Jessop West 2.07

Major Publications

Biography

Saurabh Mishra will join the History Department at the University of Sheffield in September 2012 (To be confirmed). He read history at Delhi University, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), and completed his Ph.D. at University of Oxford (2008). He subsequently held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford for a project on disease, famines and livestock in colonial North India.

Membership of Professional Bodies

To Follow.

Research

Current Research

Dr Mishra is currently working on his second manuscript, titled Beastly Burdens of the Raj: Livelihood, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790-1920. This monograph is the direct outcome of his post-doctoral project and examines various issues such as the nature of the colonial public health administration, the impact of famines on the livestock economy, the formation of caste identities (especially of tanners and leatherworkers), the politics of consumption of dairy products, and the organisation of the colonial cavalry.

Research Interests

Dr Mishra’s interests lie in exploring a wide range of themes connected with the social history of colonial and post-colonial South Asia. More specifically, his focus areas till now have included the following: the history of science and medicine in the subcontinent, the nature of Islam in South Asia, the history of agrarian processes and structures, and the formation of colonial policies and ideologies.

Public Engagement and Wider Impact

To Follow.

Research Supervision and Teaching

Dr Mishra teaches modern history, with a particular interest in South Asia and imperial history.

• HST265: The Making of Modern India, 1780-1965
• HST 3132/3133: Medicine, Science and Modernity in Colonial Times

Current PhD Students

To Follow.

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

To Follow.

Selected Publications

Books

- Pilgrimage, Politics and Pestilence: The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860-1920, Oxford University Press, India, 2011.

- Book manuscript titled Beastly Burdens of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in India, 1790-1920 is under contract with the Manchester University Press and will be published in 2013.

Articles and Essays

- ‘Cattle, Dearth and the Colonial State: Famine in Livestock in India, 1896-1900’, forthcoming in the Journal of Social History (vol. 46, no. 3, Spring 2013).

- ‘Of Poisoners, Tanners and the British Raj: Cattle Poisoning and the Making of the Chamar Caste in Colonial North India, 1850-1880’, in Indian Economic and Social History Review (vol. 48, no. 3, September 2011).

- ‘Beasts, Murrains and the Raj: Reassessing Colonial Medicine from the Veterinary Perspective, 1860-1900’, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine (vol. 85, no. 4, Winter 2011).

- ‘The Economics of Reproduction: Horse Breeding in Early Colonial India, 1790-1840’, forthcoming in Modern Asian Studies in 2012.

- ‘Beyond the Bounds of Time? The Haj from South Asia, 1860-1920’ in Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds.), Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (Routledge, 2009).

- ‘Politicisation of a Holy Act: The Haj from the Indian subcontinent, 1860-1920’ in the Golden Jubilee volume of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, vol. 50, nos. 1-2, 2005.