Animesh Chatterjee

Base

Name

Animesh Chatterjee
Academic title(s)

Dr
Institute

Technische Universität Darmstadt
Department

Institute for History
Function

Postdoctoral Researcher
Address

Worcester
Zip code

WR1 2BX
Country

United Kingdom
Phone

0044 7856642580
Visible Email Address

chatterjee@pg.tu-darmstadt.de
Short biography

Animesh Chatterjee is a historian of science and technology whose research focuses on the multifaceted meanings and interpretations of public and domestic electric supply, and technologies — electric lighting, oil and gas lamps, hand-held and electric fans, and electric meters — in colonial Calcutta.

He is also interested in cultural, literary, material and scientific histories of the weather and weathering practices in colonial Calcutta.
Recent publications

Rethinking Global History of Technology from Alternative Archives, Technikgeschichte Vol. 88, no. 2 (2021): 202-206. https://doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2021-2-202
‘New Wine in New Bottles’: Class Politics and the ‘Uneven Electrification’ of Colonial India, History of Retailing and Consumption, Vol. 4, no. 3 (2018): 94-108.
Role in Tensions of Europe

Participant
Research interests

Energy, Environment, Knowledge Networks
Additional research interests

Colonial History, History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Environmental Humanities, Environmental History