Saukarya Samad is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is an alumnus of Presidency University, Kolkata. Previously, he has taught as a Guest Lecturer at the Department of History, Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Residential College. Currently, he is associated with ‘Reading South-Asia’: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences in an editorial capacity. He also works as a Peer Reviewer for Spectrum: The undergraduate journal of the University of Alabama and a freelance translator at the People’s Archive of Rural India.
Current Research:
Saukarya’s current area of research deals with the microhistories of agrarian and labour resistances in Late-Colonial Bengal, using counter-archival sources – predominantly proscribed journals and foregrounding them as a part of the larger global struggle for decolonisation in the 1940’s.
Areas of Study:
South-Asian History, Labour History, Peasant Studies, Late-Colonial Bengal