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Dhiraj Kumar Nite
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Biography
Dhiraj Kumar Nite (Dr, PhD) specialises in the history of wellbeing, labour relations, skill formation and entrepreneurial initiatives. He is a social scientist at Ambedkar University Delhi and a senior research associate (honourary) at the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg. He was born in Bokaro Steel City and Dhanbad region, known as the Ruhr belt of India. He pursued his advanced studies and research career in New Delhi, Johannesburg and Linnaeus University (Sweden). He was a Sashakawa Young Leadership Fellow (Tokyo Foundation), Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and Post-Doctoral Associate at Linnaeus University (Sweden). He has been researching and publishing on wellbeing and labour management relationships in the mining communities in India (Jharia coalfield) and South Africa (Witbank coalfield) in the twentieth century, and construction sector in the nineteenth century. He has been an active member of the Association of Indian Labour Historians since 2006.
Talks and Publications
Among his latest publications are:
- Skill, its Institutions and Agencies in Nineteenth-Century Western India (2023)
- Wellbeing and Labour Practices: The Construction Workers in Western India (2022)
- Social Capital and its Limits: The Life and Business of Joseph Stephens (2022)
- Aspiration of Civilised, Human and Dignified Life: Sociability and Sociality in an Indian Coalfield (2021)
- Employee Benefits, Migration and Social Movement: An Indian Coalfield, 1895-1970 (2019)
- "Consenting to Labour Appropriation?": The Mineworker on South African Gold and Coalmines, 1951-2011 (2017, with Paul Stewart)
He is currently working on two projects: Skill Formation and Welfare Outcomes in Later Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries India and Wellbeing, Power and Public Reasoning: India and South Africa.