Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Madhavi Jha is a historian of labour and gender with a focus on South Asia from 1850s to the present. Her interest lies in the historical analysis of social and economic inequality and the specific forms of its reproduction in different spatial and temporal context. Her first book, Women at Work: Women Labourers and Public Works Construction in Colonial India, 1870-1920 (forthcoming), traces the history of women construction workers to argue that accounting of the history of construction work in nineteenth-century India can substantially revise the standard ‘male’ category of labour. Her second project includes an ethnographic history of labour unions in the region of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. She is interested in looking at the universe of labour organising in this region from the 1920s to the present.
Before joining the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at BITS Pilani-Hyderabad campus, Madhavi was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
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