{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:02:02","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ritika-prasad\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ritika-prasad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2025\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ritika-prasad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2025\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" style=\"width:182px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b5fa4a0679044df483360fe33c3ab9d9\"><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D., History (South Asia): University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A., History: University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A., Modern History, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A.(Hons.) History, St. Stephen\u2019s College, Delhi University, Delhi, India, 1997.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monograph:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/tracks-of-change\/2393A3B1B77CF7F2B23C8C00DDA18442\">Ritika Prasad, Tracks of\u00a0Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial\u00a0India<\/a> (Cambridge University Press, 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Special Issues<\/em><br>&#8220;Rethinking the Colonial Public Sphere: Print and its Practices,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jsh\/issue\/58\/2?browseBy=volume#2055644-7726388\"><em>Journal of Social History,<\/em> Volume 58, Issue 2, Winter 2024<\/a>, edited by Ritika Prasad and Corinna Zeltsman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Research Articles and Book Chapters <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2024. \u201cPractising Censorship? Paper, Print, and Democracy in India.\u201d <em>Journal of Social History<\/em>, special issue on \u201c Rethinking the Colonial Public Sphere: Print and its Practices\u201d 58: 2 (Winter 2024), 313-38<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2021. \u201cRailway bookselling and the politics of print in India: The case of A. H. Wheeler.\u201d <em>Book History<\/em>, 24: 1 (Spring 2021): 115-145.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika.2021. \u201cImprimatur as Adversary: Press freedom and colonial governance in India, 1780\u20131823,\u201d <em>Modern Asian Studies<\/em>, 55:2 (March 2021): 1-36.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2017. \u201cNational Necessity\u201d and \u201cPatriotic Duty\u201d: Railway Publicity in World War II India,\u201d pp. 185-205 in Mark J Crowley and Sandra T Dawson eds, <em>Home Fronts &#8211; Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45 <\/em>(Woodbridge: The Boydell Press).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2014. \u201cRailways in Colonial South Asia\u201d <em>Mobility in History<\/em>, 6:1: 120-126.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2014. \u201cWomen, Railways and Respectability in Colonial India,\u201d pp. 145-156 in Jason Coy, Ben Marschke, Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven, eds, <em>Kinship Community, and Self <\/em>(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2013. \u201c\u2018Time-Sense\u201d: Railways and Temporality in Colonial India.\u201d <em>Modern AsianStudies<\/em>, 47:4: 1252-1282.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasad, Ritika. 2012. \u201cSmoke and Mirrors: Women and Railway Travel in Colonial South Asia.\u201d <em>South Asian History and Culture<\/em>, 3:1: 26-46.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PUBLIC WRITING<\/strong><br>Ritika Prasad, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/overcrowded-trains-serve-as-metaphor-for-india-in-western-eyes-but-they-are-a-relic-of-colonialism-and-capitalism-207169\">Overcrowded trains serve as metaphor for India in Western eyes \u2013 but they are a relic of colonialism and\u00a0capitalism<\/a>,&#8221; The Conversation, June 8, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUBLIC SPEAKING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PODCAST<\/strong> <strong>INTERVIEWS:<\/strong><br><strong>Reality Scribes<\/strong>: Interviews This podcast traces the origins of journalism in India. 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