Titas Chakraborty

Titas Chakraborty is a historian of labor, gender and migration specifically studying eighteenth century South Asia. Her major fields of training are South Asian history, Labor History and World History. At DKU I teach interdisciplinary courses on migration, inter-Asian connections, South Asia and World History. Her book, Empire of Labor: Hired Workers, Mobility and the Rise of the East India Company State in Bengal, 1650-1817 (University of California Press, 2025) draws on the archives of the English and Dutch East India companies, and middle Bengali literary sources to chronicle the transformations in the structure and culture of hired work through closely studying the experience  of European sailors and soldiers, indigenous silk reelers and boatmen over the eighteenth century. It shows that the changing relationship between the English East India Company state and its workers from the late seventeenth until the early nineteenth century had set the premise for labor-employer relationship of the modern colonial British Indian state.

She has also written extensively on slavery, slave trade, and slave resistance in the making of family, class and gender in the East India Company settlements in the eighteenth century which have appeared in Slavery and Abolition, International Review of Social History, and the Journal of Social History, amongst other places. She has also co-edited a book, A Global History of Runaways (University of California Press, 2019)

She received my doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2018.

Titas Chakraborty 是一位专注于劳动、性别与迁徙研究的历史学者，主要研究18世纪的南亚地区。她的主要研究领域包括南亚历史、劳动史与世界历史。在昆山杜克大学（DKU），她开设与迁徙、亚洲内部联结（inter-Asian connections）、南亚以及世界历史相关的跨学科课程。她的著作《劳动之帝国：雇佣工人、流动性与孟加拉东印度公司国家的兴起（1650-1817）》（Empire of Labor: Hired Workers, Mobility and the Rise of the East India Company State in Bengal, 1650-1817，2025年由加州大学出版社出版）通过研究英国和荷兰东印度公司的档案资料以及孟加拉中期文学文献，详细梳理了18世纪雇佣劳动结构和文化的转变。著作通过深入研究欧洲水手与士兵、本土丝线卷绕工人与船工的经历，揭示了从17世纪末到19世纪初，英国东印度公司国家与其工人之间的关系演变如何为现代殖民英属印度国家中劳资关系的奠定了基础。

她还广泛撰写了有关奴隶制、奴隶贸易以及奴隶抗争的研究，探讨奴隶制在18世纪东印度公司殖民地社会中对家庭、阶级与性别形成的影响，其相关研究发表在《奴隶制与废奴》（Slavery and Abolition）、《国际社会史评论》（International Review of Social History）以及《社会史杂志》（Journal of Social History）等学术期刊上。此外，她还共同编辑了《逃亡者的全球史》（A Global History of Runaways，加州大学出版社，2019年）。

她在匹兹堡大学获得博士学位，并于2017-2018年在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校历史研究所（Institute for Historical Studies）担任博士后研究员。