Rajat Datta
Professor
Centre for Historical Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
Rajat Datta Thirty years of teaching, research and research supervision.
Research Interest
Rajat Datta research interest include (i) economic history of early miodern India; (ii) problems of the transition from late medieval to early-colonial in India; (iii) ecology, subsistence, and crises in pre-colonial India; and (iv) the comparative history of economic development in an Asian perspective.
Publications
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"Peasant Production and Agrarian Commercialism in a Rice-Growing Economy: Some Notes on a Comparative Perspective and the Case of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century", in Peter Robb (ed.), Meanings of Agriculture: Essays in South Asian History and Economics, Delhi, OUP, 1996.
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"Crises and Survival: Ecology, Subsistence and Coping in Eighteenth Century Bengal", The Calcutta Historical Journal. Vol. xviii, no. 1, January-June 1996.
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"Agricultural Production, Social Participation and Domination in Late Eighteenth Century Bengal: Towards an Alternative Explanation", Journal of Peasant Studies, vol.17, no.1, October 1989.
