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About Us

Staff Profile

Staff Profile

Department of History
Ph.D, M.Phil, M.A

Dr. Madhwi

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualifications

Degree Institution Year

Career Profile

Currently teaching at Department of History, Bharati college 2023 onwards.

History Department Janki Devi Memorial college 2015-2023 (Ad-hoc)

Administrative Assignments

Member of IQAC

Member of Admission Committee 

Member of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 

Areas of Interest / Specialization

Social history of medicine, History of migration, Indentured Labour, Gender Studies 

Subjects Taught

History of India 1700-1857

Rise of modern west 

Cultural Transformation of Early Modern Europe-I 

Social Formation and cultural patterns 

Medieval societies: Global Perspectives 

Research Guidance

Social and economic conditions of women in Nigeria, Department of African Studies, Ph.D, 2024.


Publications Profile

Book 


Health, Medicine and Migration: The Formation of Indentured Labour c. 1834-1920, Primus Books: Delhi, 2020


Articles (in peer-reviewed Journals, and Volumes)

2023: ‘Viklangta tatha Digital Duniya: ‘Human’ Web Series ke Sandrbh Men’ ’Volume III, Perspectives - A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary EJournal, May 2023 pp.227-242. e-ISSN  2583 4762  https://perspectives-jdmc.in/ 

2015: ‘Recruiting Indentured Labour for Overseas Colonies C. 1834-1910’, in Social Scientist, September-October, 2015, Volume 43, pp. 53-68. ISSN 0970-0293.

2015: ‘Hospital as a Site of Contestation: Regulating the Health of Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius 1842-1910’, in Labour and Development Vol. 22 no. 1 June 2015, pp. 107-133. ISSN 0973-0419. 

2012: ‘Women Migrants; From Village to Natal 1860-1911’ in the India History Congress Proceedings, 72nd Session Volume 2012, pp. 1107-1122. ISSN 2249-1937

2011: ‘Indian Women’s Emigration Experience: Power, Labour and Sexuality in Colonial Natal 1860-1911’, In the Indian History Congress Proceedings, 71st Session 2011, pp.959-972. ISSN 2249-1937.

2010: ‘Enacting Marriage laws: Regulating Women’s Rights and Sexuality in Colonial Natal (1860-1913)’, in the Indian History Congress Proceedings, 70th Session Volume 2010, pp. 846-559. ISSN 2249-1937.


Chapter in Books 


2023: ‘Able’, ‘Disabled’ and ‘Invalid’ Labourers: Disability and Indenture in Mauritius and Natal, c. 1840-1910’ published in Esme Cleall (ed.) Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015 Power Place and People, 2023. Routledge: New York and London, pp. 40-56 ISBN 978-0-367-34121-3

2010: ’Prarmbhik Aadhunik  Europe Mein Naari’ published in Devesh Vijay (ed.) Europeey Sanskriti, 2010. Hindi Madhyam Karyanvayan Nideshalaya, University of Delhi, pp. 299-322. ISBN 978-93-80172-18-7.


Book Reviews:

(Names of Books Reviewed and Publication References)


2023:Collective Memory, Identity and Legacies of Slavery and Indentured, Edited by Farzana Gounder, Bridfet Brereton, Jermo Egger and Hilde Neus, London, Routledge, 2022.” in South Asian Diaspora ,  DOI : 10.1080/19438192.2023.2215042. 22 May 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19438192.2023.2215042 

2018: Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu, eds, Medical Encounters in British India; Samiksha Sehrawat, Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender State and Society c. 1840–1920; Poonam Bala, ed., Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India; and Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India. IESHR, Volume 56:1 https://doi.org/10.1177/0019464618820149


2014: Rattan Lal Hangloo (ed.), Indian Diaspora in The Caribbean: History, Culture and Identity, Delhi: Primus Books, 2012, in Social Scientist, July – August 2014, Volume 42, Numbers 7-8, pp. 99-102. ISSN 0970-0293.


2013: P. S. Vivek, From Indentured Nation to Librated Nation: Public Policy and Small Planters in Mauritius, Banglore: Focus Press 2007, in History and Sociology of South Asia, January 2013, Volume 7 Number1, pp. 101-104. ISSN 2230-8075.

2011: Bhangya Bhukya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas Under the Rule of Nizams, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2010, in Social Scientist, Jan-Feb 2011, Vol. 39 Nos. 1-2, pp. 81-84. 0970-0293.


Popular Article:

International Network for the History of Hospitals: IV in Society for the Social History of Medicines, The Gazette, ISSN 0962-7839, no. 78. July 2017. University of Oxford, UK.

Publications in the Last one year

Book 


Health, Medicine and Migration: The Formation of Indentured Labour c. 1834-1920, Primus Books: Delhi, 2020


Articles (in peer-reviewed Journals, and Volumes)

2023: ‘Viklangta tatha Digital Duniya: ‘Human’ Web Series ke Sandrbh Men’ ’Volume III, Perspectives - A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary EJournal, May 2023 pp.227-242. e-ISSN  2583 4762  https://perspectives-jdmc.in/ 

2015: ‘Recruiting Indentured Labour for Overseas Colonies C. 1834-1910’, in Social Scientist, September-October, 2015, Volume 43, pp. 53-68. ISSN 0970-0293.

2015: ‘Hospital as a Site of Contestation: Regulating the Health of Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius 1842-1910’, in Labour and Development Vol. 22 no. 1 June 2015, pp. 107-133. ISSN 0973-0419. 

2012: ‘Women Migrants; From Village to Natal 1860-1911’ in the India History Congress Proceedings, 72nd Session Volume 2012, pp. 1107-1122. ISSN 2249-1937

2011: ‘Indian Women’s Emigration Experience: Power, Labour and Sexuality in Colonial Natal 1860-1911’, In the Indian History Congress Proceedings, 71st Session 2011, pp.959-972. ISSN 2249-1937.

2010: ‘Enacting Marriage laws: Regulating Women’s Rights and Sexuality in Colonial Natal (1860-1913)’, in the Indian History Congress Proceedings, 70th Session Volume 2010, pp. 846-559. ISSN 2249-1937.


Chapter in Books 


2023: ‘Able’, ‘Disabled’ and ‘Invalid’ Labourers: Disability and Indenture in Mauritius and Natal, c. 1840-1910’ published in Esme Cleall (ed.) Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015 Power Place and People, 2023. Routledge: New York and London, pp. 40-56 ISBN 978-0-367-34121-3

2010: ’Prarmbhik Aadhunik  Europe Mein Naari’ published in Devesh Vijay (ed.) Europeey Sanskriti, 2010. Hindi Madhyam Karyanvayan Nideshalaya, University of Delhi, pp. 299-322. ISBN 978-93-80172-18-7.




Conference Organization / Presentations (in the last three years)

Presented a paper ‘Health and Disability: Finding and Reflections of Indentured Lives in Overseas Colonies 1834-1930’ in work Mutations Put to the Test of Borders: Spatial Recompositions and Social Transformation, International Conference,  organized by Global Labour History Network Conference at the Centre for Research and Documentation of Senegal in Saint-Louis, Senegal,  December 12-16, 2022.


Invited Guest of Honour for the Graduate Scholars’ Talk Series 115th, entitled ‘Dr. Ambedkar as the First Visionary for Water Resource Management in India’, organised by Sakshya History Society Department of History in Association with IQAC Shyam Lal College (E) University of Delhi, on May 15, 2023.


‘Indian Hill Coolies in Colonial Mauritius C: 1834-1920’ in Tribes: Learning and Unlearning Tribal Culture’ organized by Janki Devi Memorial College (University of Delhi) in collaboration with Mahatma Gandhi Government College (Pondicherry University), December 9th-10th, 2021.


‘Breaking of Silence: Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Natal C. 1860-1911’ in the En-Gender Conference, Organized by Engender Organization Scotland, UK, 4th- 6th August 2021. 

‘History of Science and Medicine: Making of indentured Labourers c. 1834-1920” in the National Seminar on Historiographic Science in India, Organized by Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India, September 24, 2018. 

“Asians Beyond Asia: The Recruitment of Indentured Labourers for Plantation Economy c. 1834 -1910”, in the international Conference on AAS-in-Asia Conference ‘Asia in Motion: Geographies and Genealogies’ organized jointly by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. and ashoka University, New Delhi, India, July 5-8, 2018. 

“Abled, Disabled, and Invalid Labourers in the Plantation Economy of the British Empire, c. 1840-1910”, in the International Conference on “Disabilities Histories: Local, Global and Colonial Stories” organized by the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, June 7-8th, 2018.   

 “Gender Matters in Migration in Colonial Natal” in the National Conference on “Multiple Contexts of Migration-Multitude of Migrants”, organized by Tata institute of Social Science, Patna, Bihar, May 25-26, 2018.

“Circulation: knowledge, Practices and Objects of Science in the Colonial Plantation c. 1834-1910” in the international conference on “Empires: Towards a Global History”, organized by WIGH, Harvard University, The Global History Network and Department of History, university of Delhi, 3rd-5th December 2017. 

"Circulation of Labour and Circulation of Medical Knowledge: Colonial Mauritius and Natal 1834 -1920", in the panel ‘Medicine and Disease’ in Global History Conference, organised by Center for Global History, Friedrich-Meinecke-Insitute, Freie Universitat Berlin, May 20th-May 21st 2017.

“Beautification of Coolie Hospitals and Inmates: Colonial Mauritius c. 1850-1911”, in the International Network for the History of hospitals, organised by the University of Warwick and the Mediterranean Institute University of Malta, 6-8, April, 2017.  

“Health, Safety, Wellbeing and the Construction of Indentured Labour: Colonial Mauritius and Natal c. 1834-1920”, in the International Summer School Workshop, at the University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, from 26th September 2016- 3rd October 2016, organized by the International Research Centre ‘IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History’, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. 

Delivered a Talk “Indian Indentured and Women’s Issues in Colonial Natal c. 1860-1914.” in the Series of “Samaj aur Itihas”, at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, on 2nd November 2015. New Delhi, India.

“Health, Sanitation and Discipline: Indentured Voyages to the Mauritius and Natal c.1834-1910” in Indian History Congress, at the Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi India. December 28-30, 2014. 

“Health Matter: Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius1842-1920” in ‘Health, Labour, Migration and the formation of Indian diasporas in the South Pacific, 19-20th centuries’, Workshop organized by History Department, University of Delhi, at International Guest House, University of Delhi, 8th November 2014.

“Shipping Indentured Bodies to Overseas Colonies 1834-1910” in Historical Methods Research Scholars’ Workshop History Department, University of Delhi, 28-30th April 2014.

“Hospital as a Site of Contestation: Estate Hospital and Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius 1842-1910” in Xth International Conference on Labour History, “Labour History: A Return to Politics?” at V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, India. March 22-24, 2014.

“Regulating the Health of Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius C. 1842-1910” in Workshop entitled, ‘Health, Medicine and Humanities: Interaction in Colonial and Post-Colonial India’, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. 11th March 2014.

“Reporting Indenture’s Health and Hygiene in Colonial Natal 1860-1911” in the International Conference on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (ICSHTM) under the theme ‘Medical Knowledge at the Colonial work front’, University of Manchester, July 2013. United Kingdom.

“Medicalization of Plantation Economy of Colonial Mauritius and Natal 1860-1911” in a Workshop at the Centre for Studies of Developing Societies, Delhi, (Sponsored by ICSSR) India. 14-16 November 2012. 

“Making ‘suitable’ Indentured Labour: On the Depot of Calcutta and Madras: 1834-1920” in the Workshop International Summer School “The City and the Village: Separations, Linkages and Conflicts over Social Space in Modern India” Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Göttingen, Germany, 16 – 21 July 2012.

“Health and Sanitation Experience of Indentured Labour in Colonial Natal 1860-1911” in workshop State, Society and Economy Research Scholars’ at Department of History, University of Delhi, 26-28th April 2012.

“Women Migrants; From Village to Natal 1860-1911” in the India History Congress, 72nd Session, Patiala, Punjab, December 2011.

“Indentured Migrant Experience: Modern Science and medicine in Colonial Mauritius and Natal 1834-1920” in the International Summer Vacation workshop, Organized by Centre for Modern Indian Studies, university of Gottingen, Germany, at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, India, 3-8 October 2011.

“Indentured Indian Migrants in Colonial Natal 1860-1911” in workshop funded by Indian Council of Historical Research, Organized by  Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi, India  26-28 April 2011. 

“Medicalization of the Indian Body in Colonial Natal 1860-1911”, at a Conference on “Health and Healing Practices in Colonial India: Continuity and Changes” Delhi, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India 24-25 March 2011. 

“Indian Women’s Emigration Experience: Power, Labour and Sexuality in Colonial Natal 1860-1911”, in the Indian History Congress, 71th Session, Malda West Bengal. February 2011. India

“Indian migrants and their experience in colonial Natal 1860-1914, in “Papiya Ghosh Memorial Lecture”, Delhi, India Habitate Center”, India 4th December 2010.

‘Enacting Marriage laws: Regulating Women’s Rights and Sexuality in Colonial Natal (1860-1913)’, in the Indian History Congress, 70th Session, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. 2010.

‘Contextualising Women’s Sexuality and Labour in Colonial Natal 1860-1911”, in Conference, “Exploring the Margins: Economy of Margins: Agriculture, Trade, Industry and Labour, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 3-5 September 2009.

Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)

Member of project “Hindi Vishvkosh Pariyojna” Section “Modern Indian History”, Central Institute of Delhi, Delhi Centre, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India (2016). 


Research Assistant for the International Project of “Health Labour, Migration and the formation of Indian Diaspora in the South Pacific, 19-20th centuries”, a Joint Research Project India involving Delhi University/UGC and the University of Christchurch/New Zealand Education Council. January 2015 - July 2015.

Awards and Distinctions

Society for the Social History of Medicine Travel Grant to present a paper at the Beauty and the Hospital in History Conference, Malta (6-8 April 2017). 

Charlace Wallace India Trust Visitor Grant in March 2013 for Research in UK Archives and Libraries.

Wellcome Trust Grant for participation at the International Conference on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (ICSHTM) under the theme 'Medical Knowledge at the Colonial Work Front' – University of Manchester, April 2013, U.K.

Indian Council of Historical Research Foreign Travel Grant in June 2013, to conduct field Work in UK Archives and Libraries.

Parth Sarthi Gupta Memorial and P.C. Jha Memorial prize for the best paper among “Modern India” And “Countries Other than India” section, for the 71th session of Indian History Congress. Presented paper entitled “Indian Women’s Emigration Experience: Power, Labour and Sexuality in Colonial Natal 1860-1911”, Patiala, Punjab. December 10-13, 2011.

Parth Sarthi Gupta Memorial and P.C. Jha Memorial prize for the best paper among “Modern India” And “Countries Other than India” section, for the 70th session of Indian History Congress. Paper entitled “Enacting Marriage laws regulating Indentured private Sphere in Colonial Natal 1860-1914” Malda West Bengal, Feb10-12, 2011.

Doctoral Fellowship from Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR-CSDS Fellowship), 2011-2014. 

Association With Professional Bodies

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