Prabhu Mohapatra's guest appearances

Prabhu Mohapatra

German Historical Institute London Podcast

OwlTail

Kim König

Indra Sengupta

What is the employment contract? When was it introduced in India? What is the role of Indian labour history within the field of labour history and historical research more generally?GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengupta and PR Officer Kim König put these questions to Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi) and talk to him about his research on the genealogy of labour regulation in India and the career of the employment contract in particular.

What is the employment contract? When was it introduced in India? What is the role of Indian labour history within the field of labour history and historical research more generally?<br><br>GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengupta and PR Officer Kim König put these questions to Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi) and talk to him about his research on the genealogy of labour regulation in India and the career of the employment contract in particular.

Prabhu Mohapatra, Indra Sengupta and Kim König: The employment contract in Indian labour history

When was the employment contract introduced in India? The story of the forging of the Formal Employment Contract in the first decades of the twentieth century, of its tortuous career and eventual dismantling over the next hundred years, may give us a clue to the persistent paradoxes of India’s labouring landscape. My presentation will examine how the employment contract came into being in India, and how it was transformed and destroyed over the last century.