Prasannan Parthasarathi | Environment, Inequality and Famine in Tamilnadu, 1860-1900

With Prasannan Parthasarathi

Prasannan Parthasarathi is Professor of South Asian History at Boston College. He is the author of The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge, 2001), The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles (Oxford, 2009), and Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1600-1850 (Cambridge, 2011), which received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize of the World History Association and was named a Choice magazine outstanding academic title.

He is now working on a study of agriculture and the environment in nineteenth-century South India. His articles have appeared in Past and Present, the Journal of Social History, Modern Asian Studies, and International Labor and Working Class History. He is on the editorial boards of International Labor and Working Class History, The Journal of Social History, The Medieval History Journal, and Textile History, and served on the editorial board of the American Historical Review.