Dr. Aashish Velkar

Biography

Aashish Velkar is a historian focused on economic history and is deeply interested in economic institutions, political economy, and the cultural foundations of economic practices. His current research project explores the history of official cost of living measurements in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Velkar is also expanding on the field of political economy through a monograph provisionally titled 'Rhetoric of Numbers'. His past projects have examined the discursive practices that shaped colonial economic spaces and the economic nationalism in India. His work has been published in notable journals such as 'Past & Present', 'Historical Journal', and 'Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology'. He has a longstanding research project on 'Markets and Measurements' that investigates the social organization of measurement standards and their implications on economic governance. Velkar's notable contributions include the monograph 'Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth Century Britain'. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics and has contributed significantly to teaching and learning within the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

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