A List of Conference Proceedings of those Attended and Organised:
- Nite, DK. ‘Workers’ Housing and State Welfares: Mineworkers in South Africa and India, 1940s-60s,’ Paper Presented at the International Conference of All India Labour Historians (AILH), New Delhi, 11-16 November 2021.
- Nite, DK, One of the Organising Coordinators of the ‘National Young Researchers’ Conference on New Researches in the History of the Indian Subcontinent,’ 28-29 May 2021.
- Nite, DK. ‘Classifying Occupational Hazards: An exposition of the narratives of precarious life, Indian Mines 1895—1970’, Paper Presented at the 4th Ireland India Institute Annual South Asian Studies Conference, Dublin, 28-20 April 2021.
- Nite, Dk. ‘Managing the Mines: An Enquiry into the Safety Rationale of the Management on the Indian Coalmines 1940s—1960s’, Paper Presented at the Workshop on Worlds of Management: Transregional Approaches to Management Knowledge since 1945, Vienna, 14-16 April 2021.
- Nite, DK. One of the Organising Coordinators of the First Annual Conference of the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) on ‘Rethinking South Asia: Alternative Paradigms, Practices and Discourses,’ New Delhi, 7-9 November 2020.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Remuneration and the Wellbeing: The Construction Workers in an Indian Region during the 1860s’, Paper Presented at the Conference on ‘the Underbelly of the Empire: Workers, Contracts, and the Social Economy of the Industrial Turn’, New Delhi, 11-12 December 2019.
- Nite, DK. ‘Multiple Times and Unified Process: An examination of interweaving of formalisation and informalisation in an Indian coalfield, 1947-1970,’ Paper presented in the Conference on ‘Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Processes’ at Gottingen University, 20-12 November 2019.
- Nite, DK. ‘Construction Workers, Remuneration and Levels of Living: An Indian Region during the 1860s’, Presented at the Conference on Wages, Prices and Small Change in India 1300-1875’, on 20 July 2019 at Pune University.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Dis-/entitlement and Levels of Living: India 1600s-1870’, Presented at a conference on ‘Education and Intellectual Traditions in South Asia’, on 11-12 July 2019 at NMML in New Delhi.
- Nite, DK. ‘Worker Housing and State Welfares: The Colliery Workers in South Africa and India, 1940s-60s’, Paper Presented at a Conference on ‘Social Change from Below’, on 12-14 June 2019, at University of Johannesburg.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Wages and the Wellbeing: The Construction Workers in an Indian Region during the 1860s’, Presented at the Conference on ‘Wages, Wage Payments and Small Change in India 1300-1875’, on 3 April 2019 at ICAS:MP (M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies: ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’, New Delhi.
- Nite, DK. Discussant of a panel on ‘Grassroots Archives: A Japanese Experience’, Panel at the Conference of Association of Asian Studies, New Delhi, 6-8 July 2018.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practice, Wages, and Welfare Ratio: The Indian Subcontinent 1860-1868’, Presented at the International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians (New Delhi), 26-28 March 2018.
- Nite, DK, ‘Worker Housing and the Politics of Reproduction: Colliery mineworkers in India, circa 1940s−1950s’, Presented at the Conference of French Network of South Asian Studies, Sciences Po University, Paris (France) 25-28 June 2017
- Nite, DK. Discussant of a panel on ‘the Migrant and the State: Colonialism to Neoliberalism’, A Conference organised by TISS Patna, 29-November – 1 December 2018.
- Nite, DK. ‘Grassroots Archives: A Japanese Experience’, Panel at the Conference of Association of Asian Studies, New Delhi, 6-8 July 2018.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practice, Wages, and Welfare Ratio: The Indian Subcontinent 1860-1868’, Presented at the International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians (New Delhi), March 2018.
- Nite, DK. ‘Whatever Happened to Worktime: Manufacturing of Industriousness on the Indian Mines, 1895-1970’, Presented a Conference on Money and Time, Gottingen University, 17-18 December 2017.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour, Wages, and Levels of Living: The Indian Subcontinent 1860-1868’, Presented at the Workshop of Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University (Sweden), 9-10 December 2017.
- Nite, DK, ‘Worker Housing and the Politics of Reproduction: Colliery mineworkers in India and South Africa, circa 1940s−1950s’, Presented at the Conference of French Network of South Asian Studies, Paris (France) 25-28 June 2017.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour, Wages, and Levels of Living: The Indian Subcontinent 1600-1870’, Presented at The Conference on Ambedkar’s Contribution to Indian Politics and Society at DAV College Amritsar, on 17 March 2017.
- Nite, DK. ‘A Fortune Maker: Life and business of Joseph Stephens, India and Scandinavia 1860-1869’, presented at the Centre for Concurrencies in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University (Sweden), on 15 December 2016.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practice, Wage and the Welfare Ratio: The Construction Worker in India (Maharashtra), 1860-68’, A Presentation at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Gottingen University, Germany, on 15 November 2016.
- Nite, DK. ‘Employee Benefits and the Migrant Workers: The Indian Coalfield (Jharia), 1895-1970’, presented at the Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians, New Delhi (Noida), 21-23 March 2016.
- DK. ‘Claiming the Mining Sense: The Mining Persons in South African Gold and Coalmines, 1952-2012,’ Presented at the Symposium on Pushing the Boundaries, Mabula Lodge (Limpopo, South Africa), 24-26 June 2015.
- Nite, DK. ‘Wo/men Mineworkers and Family-oriented Labour: Indian Colliers 1895-1948’, presented at the International Mining History Congress, Charters Tower (Australia), 6-11 July, 2014.
- Nite, DK, ‘Revisiting the Labour Economy: The Mineworker in South African Minefields, 1951-2011’, presented at the ‘Symposium on Politics of Social Change and Social Change in Politics’, Johannesburg, 2-4 July 2014.
- DK, ‘Appropriation of Labour? The Mineworkers in South African Gold and Coal Mines, 1951-2011’, presented at the International Conference on ‘Labour History: Return to Politics?’, Delhi (Noida), 22-24 March 2014.
- DK, ‘‘This roof will collapse and offices will be closed if the woman is here’: Experiences of safety and women on the gold and coal mines in South Africa’, presented at the Digging Treasure Conference, Essen (Germany), 21-23 November 2013.
- Nite, DK, ‘Wages for Work: An examination of the production preferences of mineworkers in Jharia Coalfields 1895-1970’, presented at the Sixth Global Studies Conference, 5-7 September 2013, New Delhi.
- Nite, DK, Part of a team responsible for organizing the 9th International Mining History Congress (IMHC), Johannesburg 2012, April 17-20.
- Nite, DK, ‘Whatever Happened to Work-time: An examination of the nature of the Industrious Revolution, Jharia Coalfield 1895-1970’, presented at the IMHC 2012 and Asian Historical Economists’ Congress, Hitotsubashi University (Japan), September 2012.
- Nite, DK, ‘Narratives of Mining Life: The contribution of life history to mining history on the South African mines, 1951-2011’, presented at the International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH), VV Giri National Labour Institute (Noida), 22-24 March 2012.
- Nite, DK, ‘Classifying Accidents: The Meaning of Work Hazards, Jharia Coalfields 1900 – 1970’, presented at the Interdisciplinary-Net Conference of the Value of Work, Prague: October 31- November 2, 2011.
- Nite, DK, ‘The Foundation of Wages: an examination of the reproduction and productiveness debate, Jharia coalfield, 1890s-1970’, presented at the South Asian Conference on the Politics of Poverty and Poverty of the Politics, Goettingen University, July 5-8, 2011.
- Nite, DK, ‘Reproduction Culture in the Coal Town: A study of family life and memory of miners, Jharia Coalfields 1920s – 1960s’, presented at the Workshop ‘Summer Academy: 'Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History’, Point Sud. Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako/ Mali, November 1 - 9, 2010.
- DK, ‘Negotiating the Mines: The Politics of Safety in the Jharia Coalfields 1890s-1960s’, International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians, VV Giri Labour Institute Noida (Delhi), March 2010.
- Nite, DK, ‘Long Day, Flexible Hours: An enquiry into the Work, Time and Politics, Jharia Coalfields 1890s–1920s’, (New Delhi: Conference of Association of Labour Historians, March 2006.
- Nite, DK, ‘Women and Work: an enquiry into the prohibition of women’s underground mining’, (New Delhi: Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians and International Social History Review, November 1-3, 2005).
Lectures Delivered
- Nite, DK, ‘Religion and Welfare Institutions in an Industrial Age,’ A Key Lecture Delivered as an invited speaker at the Workshop on ‘Living the Industries: People, Life and Literature' at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, on 27th November 2021.
- Nite, DK, ‘Skill Development, its Institutions and Agencies: scope and substance of human capital in 19th century Western India,’ an invited special lecture at the College of Social Work, Nagpur University, 19 July 2021.
- Nite, DK, ‘Migration and Emigration in Modern Indian History, A Lecture Delivered at 5th Orientation Programme at TISS Patna, 18th March 2021.
- Nite, DK, ‘Migrations in Modern History: Colonial and Postcolonial India’, A Lecture Delivered at TISS Patna, 14-14 February 2020.
- Nite, DK. ‘Archival Method’, A Talk Delivered at Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, 14 March 2019.
- Nite, DK. ‘Migrations in Modern History: Colonial and Postcolonial India’, A Talk delivered at TISS Patna, 19-20 February 2019.
- Nite, DK. ‘Employee Benefits, Migration and Social Struggles: An Indian Coalfield, 1895-1970’, A Talk delivered at TISS Patna and Patna University, 19 April 2018.
- Nite, DK. ‘A Fortune Maker: Life and the Business Practice of Joseph Stephens: India and Scandinavia 1860-1868’, A Talk delivered at Huseby Estate Museum (Sweden), on 11 December 2017.
- Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Wages, and Living Standards: The Indian Subcontinent 1600-1870’, A Talk Delivered at Rajdhani College (University of Delhi), on 29 March 2017.
- Nite, DK, ‘Memory, Sources and Historical Analysis’, Five Lectures Delivered at Tezpur University (Sociology Department), 12-16 October 2015.
- Nite, DK, ‘Globalisation and Liberalisation: Impacts on Labouring Life and Labour Movement’, Mahendergarh: Central University of Haryana (Law Department), May 1, 2015.
- Nite, DK, ‘Approach to ‘A New Labour History’ in South Asia’, at Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 13 October 2014.
- Nite, DK, ‘Nelson Mandela: Gandhi of South Africa’, at St Froebel Higher Secondary School, Paschim Vihar, Delhi, 18 October 2014.
- Nite, DK, ‘The Rise of Industrial Elites in India: A discussion on three forms of entrepreneurship’, at Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (PhD Programme), 21-22 July 2014.
Dissertation and Thesis Supervised
- Dhiraj Kumar, ‘Advancing De-castification: An Action Research into the Inter-caste Relations, Chhattisgarh,’, MPhil Dissertation, AUD, 2020.
- Nabhojeet Sen, ‘Convict Labour Regime in Colonial India, 1820-1870’, M.Phil. Dissertation submitted at Ambedkar University Delhi 2017.
- Peeyush Gaur, ‘From a Duck-Shooting Site to a National Park: A Study of Socio-Ecological Relationship at the Keoladeo Ghana Park’, M.Phil. Dissertation submitted at Ambedkar University Delhi 2015.
- Ruby Saini, ‘Claiming a Respectable Status: the Malis and Sainis in the Punjab, 1910-1970’, M.Phil. Dissertation submitted at Ambedkar University Delhi 2015.