Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Megha Sharma

Megha Sharma

Department of History and Archaeology

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


Contact Information

  •  PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Historical Studies, 2022 [The Juridicality of Labour in Post Colonial India, 1947-80].
  • M.Phil. in Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2015 [Conditions of Informality: Beedi Industry in Colonial and Post 1947 Central India].
  • M.A. in Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2012.
  • B.A. (Honours) in History, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, 2010

  • Senior Researcher, ICAS-MP M.S. Merian–R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies, TM2 (Labour as a Political Category) New Delhi.
  • March 2023- May 2023- National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Visiting Faculty.
  •  January 2023-March 2023-Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board, University of Delhi, Guest Assistant Professor for PG MA History.
  • January 2020-May 2022 – Ashoka University (Sonipat, Haryana), Teaching Fellow, History.
  •  September-October 2021- Ashoka University (Sonipat, Haryana), Teaching Assistant, Financial Lectures on the Reason and Making of Modern India, Young India Fellowship.

  •   Modern History, Labour Laws and Legal History in Post-Colonial India. I focus on labour policies, informal economies and labour jurisprudence.  

  • Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi, 2018-19.
  • Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, August 2018-September 2018

PRESENTATIONS

  • ‘Making of the Industrial 'Peace': Labour Jurisprudence in Delhi 1947-70’at Shiv Nadar University’s Seminar Series on 16th February 2023.
  •  ‘Entanglements with Law: Making of Industrial Peace in Post 1947 India’ at Association for Asian Studies’ Annual Conference on 17th February 2023 virtually.
  •  ‘Making of Industrial Peace: Labour Jurisprudence in Delhi 1947-70’, at fourth Inter University Historians’ Colloquium organized by OP Jindal Global University’s Centre for Research in History on 10 September 2022, Magnolia, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
  • ‘Judicial Tribunals of Delhi 1947-1970 and the Possibility of Justice’, at XIIIth International Conference on Labour History, ‘Mapping Lives of Labour,’ (virtual), organised by Association of Indian Labour Historians, & V.V. Giri National Labour Institute in collaboration with the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies (November 11-16, 2021)
  •  ‘Juvenile Labour in the Beedi Industry of Central India, 1960s-80s’, at Querying Childhood, Feminist Reframings (virtual) workshop, ICAS: MP, 10 April 2021.

  • "Accessing Education: Reconfiguring Family and Neighbourhood Networks’ in Un/Common Schooling: Educational Experiments in Twentieth-Century India, ed. Janaki Nair, Orient Blackswan: Delhi, 2022.
  • ‘Recasting Language of Work: Beedi Industry in Post-Colonial Central India’, History and Sociology of South Asia, 12: 1, 2018: pp.32-47.
  • ‘“Informality” in the Beedi Industry: An Entangled Map’, Labour and Development, 24: 1, 2017: pp.102-119.