Hey! 

I am a PhD scholar at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. I am also a GATES Cambridge scholar (2024 cohort) enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. I have been a Fellow at the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 2023. 

My field specialisations are labour history, world history, economic and social history, and history of capitalism, and I am studying labour legislation in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for my PhD. I am engaged with philosophical and methodological interventions in history and social sciences, grappling with questions on production regimes and the complexities of capital-labour relations, modes of production, movements, and resistance. I am theorising a framework to study labouring lives and develop our understanding of labour history and the development of capitalism.

I have been previously awarded the History Project grant jointly by Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute of New Economic Thinking. This grant supported my historical project on labour processes in the Indian automobile industry, which focused on archival research and oral history to uncover significant historical insights. To learn more about this, please click here.

I regularly publish articles and chapters on labour, social, and economic concerns. My work (with Roshni Yadav) on "Local Government Regulations and the Dispossession of Urban Informal Vendors in Delhi, India" was published in Mapping Legalities by Routledge last year. The publication blog can be found here. Based on our findings, I am advocating for the improvement of the lives of street vendors in urban Delhi. The blog on advocacy is still in progress. Please check my research works and publications here. 

Some of my blogs can be found here. 

For my CV, please click here. 

You can email me at ankit.trinitycollege@gmail.com / aks202[at]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk.