Dr. Aashish Velkar

Biography

Aashish Velkar is a historian specializing in economic history, particularly interested in economic institutions, political economy, and cultural foundations of economic practices. His current project explores the history of official cost of living measurements in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Velkar is expanding his work on political economy with a monograph provisionally titled 'Rhetoric of Numbers'. His recent research has examined the discursive practices that shaped colonial economic spaces and the economic nationalism in India. His work has been published in essays for notable journals such as 'Past and Present' and the 'Historical Journal'. He is also investigating the social organization of measurement standards for commodities and their implications for economic organization and governance through an ongoing long-term research project titled 'Markets and Measurements', which has resulted in the monograph 'Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth Century Britain'. Velkar has served in various academic administrative roles, including Director of Teaching, Learning, and Student Experience. Originally from India, he completed his doctoral training at the London School of Economics in 2009 and has made a home in the UK since 2004. Outside of academia, he enjoys photography and yoga, activities that are highly weather dependent.

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