Dr. Deepanjan Kumar Das has recently been awarded his Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Early Modern History from the Centre for Historical Studies (CHS) in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is an economic historian and epistemologist currently working as an Archivist at the Nehru Selected Works Archives (NSWA), under the supervision of Professor Madhavan Palat, within the aegis of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) at Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi.

He is avidly interested and primarily works in themes related to epistemology, economic history, pedagogy, subaltern history, microhistory, the history of margins at the brink, ecological history, gender history, labour history, identity, resistance, migration, and transcultural studies. Hailing from Mirza in Kamrup (Rural) district of Assam, his academic journey began under the guidance of a wide array of historians and academicians alike, such as Dr. S Gunasekaran, Professor Rajat Datta, Professor Yogesh Sharma, Dr. Shankar Kumar, Ratan Kumar, Professor Nandita Prasad Sahai, Professor Neeladri Bhattacharya, Professor Janaki Nair, Dr. Rachna Singh, Dr. Archana Verma,
Professor Mysore Samuel Sundaram Pandian (MSS Pandian), Professor Pius Malekandathil, Professor Najaf Haider, Professor Arvind Sinha and Professor Ranabir Chakrabarty to name a few. His primary academic focus and research areas lie in the exploration and study of marginalised groups across biomes, the formation of servile labour, ecological turgidity of riparian spaces and displacement effected by global catastrophes such as climate change, political ineptness, and growing ethnographic imbalance in both peripheral and littoral spaces. As a part of his doctoral thesis titled ‘Labour, Social Servility and Subordination in Eighteenth Century Bengal, circa 1760-
1800’, Dr Das has studied and accessed the evolution of what has been coined as ‘servile’ labour in the territory of Bengal (particularly ranging and not limited to south Bengal subah). He has diligently tried to ascertain the foundation of ‘servility’ and how it juxtaposed with ‘feudal slavery’ in Bengal.

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