EDUCATION

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., History (South Asia): University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.
  • M.A., History: University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.
  • M.A., Modern History, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2000.
  • B.A.(Hons.) History, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Delhi, India, 1997.

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph:
Ritika Prasad, Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Special Issues
“Rethinking the Colonial Public Sphere: Print and its Practices,” Journal of Social History, Volume 58, Issue 2, Winter 2024, edited by Ritika Prasad and Corinna Zeltsman

Research Articles and Book Chapters

  • Prasad, Ritika. 2024. “Practising Censorship? Paper, Print, and Democracy in India.” Journal of Social History, special issue on “ Rethinking the Colonial Public Sphere: Print and its Practices” 58: 2 (Winter 2024), 313-38
  • Prasad, Ritika. 2021. “Railway bookselling and the politics of print in India: The case of A. H. Wheeler.” Book History, 24: 1 (Spring 2021): 115-145.
  • Prasad, Ritika.2021. “Imprimatur as Adversary: Press freedom and colonial governance in India, 1780–1823,” Modern Asian Studies, 55:2 (March 2021): 1-36.
  • Prasad, Ritika. 2017. “National Necessity” and “Patriotic Duty”: Railway Publicity in World War II India,” pp. 185-205 in Mark J Crowley and Sandra T Dawson eds, Home Fronts – Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press).
  • Prasad, Ritika. 2014. “Railways in Colonial South Asia” Mobility in History, 6:1: 120-126.
  • Prasad, Ritika. 2014. “Women, Railways and Respectability in Colonial India,” pp. 145-156 in Jason Coy, Ben Marschke, Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven, eds, Kinship Community, and Self (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books).
  • Prasad, Ritika. 2013. “‘Time-Sense”: Railways and Temporality in Colonial India.” Modern AsianStudies, 47:4: 1252-1282.
  • Prasad, Ritika. 2012. “Smoke and Mirrors: Women and Railway Travel in Colonial South Asia.” South Asian History and Culture, 3:1: 26-46.

PUBLIC WRITING
Ritika Prasad, “Overcrowded trains serve as metaphor for India in Western eyes – but they are a relic of colonialism and capitalism,” The Conversation, June 8, 2023

PUBLIC SPEAKING

PODCAST INTERVIEWS:
Reality Scribes: Interviews This podcast traces the origins of journalism in India. The hosts, Sumit Chaturvedi and Vasundhara Sirnate, take you through the history of Indian society’s news and information ecosystems, India’s news culture and how these have evolved over years, decades and centuries.