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Shankar Nair is a historian specializing in the fields of science and technology, with a particular focus on colonial India. He joined King’s College London as a Lecturer in the History Department, after completing a Master’s program in 2019 under the Hans Rausing studentship. His PhD dissertation is a comparative study of the cotton ginning and tobacco manufacturing industries during late colonial India, which brings together the histories of production and technology within the context of the empire. Additionally, he serves as a co-convenor for the Centre for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHoSTM) event series. His research interests include modern Indian history, global production, and economic history, emphasizing the comparative and transnational aspects of technological innovation and the utilization of modern science. He is particularly drawn to questions regarding the global convergence and divergence in production techniques, systems, and forms of work during the 19th and 20th centuries. Shankar has also contributed editorially to notable newspapers, such as The Hindu, focusing on renewable energy policy and the interplay between scientific understandings and political life.
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