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Humanities Division
History Department
Associate Professor
Faculty
Regular Faculty
India and Indian Studies
Marxism
World History
Colonialism
Labor and Social Movements
Urban studies
Humanities Building 1
531
531 Humanities 1
Spring, 2025: Tues: 12:00 - 1:30 PM and by appointment
Humanities Academic Services
Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A, University of Pune
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.
Modern South Asian social and cultural history, urban history, labor history, history of caste, Dalit studies, intellectual history, development studies, social theory, and agrarian studies
Modern South Asia, Intellectual History, Colonial India, Urban History, Labor History
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor selected as a 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association
Visiting Research Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University (2021-22)
Committee on Research, Faculty Research Grant, UCSC (2020-21)
Dean's Medal for the Social Sciences , University of Washington, Seattle, 2011
Shaikh, J. (2024). Social realism and labour strikes in interwar Bombay: what has socialism got to do with it? South Asian History and Culture, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2024.2418174
Shaikh, Juned. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021); India Edition: (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2021)
HIS 44: Modern South Asia, 1500 to Present
HIS 146A: Colonial South Asia 1750-1947
HIS 147C: South Asia in the 20th Century
HIS 147D: Intellectual History of South Asia
HIS 147: Imperial Sport: Cricket in South Asia
HIS 194P: Urban South Asia
HIS 194T: Worlds of Labor in Asia
HIS 204 C: Colonialism, Nationalism, Race
HIS194N: Urbanities in the Global South
HIS200: Theories and Methods
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