Siddharth Sridhar

PhD Program
sid.sridhar@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Migration/Diaspora
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • State, Politics, and Law

Areas of Interest

History of Tropical Plantations, Labor Regimes, Global History of Capitalism, History of Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism and Anti-Colonial Movements

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Debates in Indian Economic History

Minor 1

Capitalism and Imperialism

Minor 2

Empire, Labor and Nation in Southeast Asia

Working Dissertation

Title

Developing an Empire: Plantation Rubber and Peasant Agriculture in the Bay of Bengal

Supervisors

Dr. Malavika Kasturi
Dr. Bhavani Raman

Biography

Siddharth Sridhar is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His dissertation, “Developing an Empire:
Plantation Rubber and Peasant Agriculture in the Bay of Bengal” follows the emergence and decline of British imperial regimes of development in the Bay of Bengal oriented around plantations and peasant agriculture. Siddharth earned his MA in Asian Studies and BA in History at the University of Texas, focusing on the history of caste and capitalism in the South Asia.

Education

MA, Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Plan II Honors and History, University of Texas at Austin

Cohort

  • 2018-2019