Dr Saurabh Mishra

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Senior Lecturer in History: post 1800

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Level 1 Tutor

s.mishra@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2617
9 Mappin Street
Wednesday 10.00-12.00

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Dr Saurabh Mishra
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
Profile

I joined the University of Sheffield in September 2012.

I read history at Delhi University, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), and completed my Ph.D. at University of Oxford (2008).

I subsequently held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford for a project on disease, famines and livestock in colonial North India.

Research interests

I am currently working on a project on indentured labour in British Guiana which investigates the lives and experiences of indentured labourers through the lens of medical/health issues.

While the plantation economy has been studied by a number of historians, this project adopts a different perspective by focusing on the medical regime that labourers were subjected to.

My larger interests lie in exploring a range of themes connected with the social history of colonial and post-colonial South Asia.

More specifically, my focus areas till now have included the following: the history of science and medicine in the subcontinent, the nature of Islam in South Asia, the history of agrarian processes and structures, and the formation of colonial policies and ideologies.

Publications

Books

  • Mishra S (2025) Emotions, Gender, and Science: The Case of Ornithology in Colonial India, 1800-1960. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mishra S (2015) Beastly encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in North India, 17901920. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Mishra S (2011) . New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.

Edited books

  • Mishra S (Ed.) (2017) Virtual Special issue on the History of Veterinary Medicine for the journal Social History of Medicine..

Journal articles

  • Mishra S (2023) . The Historical Journal, 66(3), 715-724.
  • Mishra S (2022) . JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, 50(2), 241-263.
  • Mishra S (2017) . HISTORY COMPASS, 15(8).
  • Mishra S (2014) Introduction: Veterinary History comes of Age. Social History of Medicine(Specia).
  • Mishra S (2013) . JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY, 46(4), 989-1012.
  • Mishra S (2013) . Indian Economic and Social History Review, 48(3), 317-338.
  • Mishra S (2012) . Modern Asian Studies, 46(05), 1116-1144.
  • Mishra S (2011) . Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 85(4), 587-619.
  • Mishra FRHistS S (2005) Politicisation of a Holy Act: The Haj from the Indian subcontinent, 1860-1920. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, vol. 50(nos. 1-2).

Book chapters

  • Mishra S (2024) , Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science (pp. 205-221). Routledge
  • Mishra S (2024) , Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science Transhistorical Perspectives (pp. 205-221).
  • Mishra S (2022) , COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies (pp. 2587-2598). Springer Nature
  • Mishra S (2018) Hakims and Haiza: Unani medicine and cholera in late Colonial India In Pati B & Harrison M (Ed.), Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India (pp. 73-85). Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Mishra S (2016) 'Incarceration and Resistance in a Red Sea Lazaretto' in Alison Bashford (ed.) pp. 54-66 In Bashford A (Ed.), Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Palgrave, London
  • Mishra S (2008) Beyond the bounds of time? The Haj pilgrimage from the Indian subcontinent, 18651920 In Harrison M & Pati B (Ed.), Social history of health and medicine in colonial India (pp. 31-44). Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Mishra S () Those Fantastic Creatures from the Tropics: The Myth and Science of Feral Children in the Imperial Metropoles, 1920-40 In Hall A (Ed.), Evolution and Religion in Popular Media University of Pittsburgh, forthcoming in April 2023

Other

  • Mishra S (2023) BOOK REVIEWS: Authored more than twenty book reviews in journals such as Gender and History, Isis, History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, South Asia Research, south Asian History and Culture, Social Scientist, Biblio, Medical History, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Contemporary South Asia, Social History of Medicine, amongst others..
Research group

Research supervision

Completed Students
  • Apurba Chatterjee (second supervisor) - Images of Empire: A Study of Visual Representations in Early British India c.1757-1820

All current students

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Teaching activities

Undergraduate:

  • HST265 - The Making of Modern India, 1780-1965
  • HST3132/33 - Tools of Empire? Medicine, Science and Colonialism, 1800-1950
  • HST3304 - Debt, Money and Morality

Postgraduate:

  • HST6069 - Worlds of Labour: Working Class Lives in Colonial South Asia
Professional activities and memberships

Previous administrative roles:

  • Dissertation Coordinator.
  • Study Abroad and Erasmus Advisor