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Sep 4, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Periodic advert about IIMA's History Internship. This time a thread on what past interns, all amazing, have been doing. web.iima.ac.in/users/hr/JD%20…
The History Internship allows Masters/PhD students to explore business and economic history at IIMA, for two months, either on their topics or on something that I am working on. Started in 2017 and over ten have availed it so far.
One guy wanted to kill time after his MBA before his job at a big FMCG firm started, slogged for two months, got obsessed with Spencer's (estd. 1863) and after many more months of work, we wrote this piece on marketing history | emerald.com/insight/conten…
One PhD student still figuring out her forte, worked hard at the Godrej and Cipla Archives, co-wrote this piece - emerald.com/insight/conten… - and decided that History was not for her. She's very bright and now doing Philosophy rather than History, which is sub-optimal, but great!
One person came in from a corporate archive, loved to work on advertisements and is now doing a History PhD in the USA on cultural history....perhaps on the pressure cooker.
One Master's student, helped out going through corporate directory lists searching for women names and finding more info on them. Now starting a MPhil at Oxford.
A PhD student working on Sindhi business history, did some fantastic work on the House of Motwane/Chicago Radio and is now working on more such businesses. Hopefully we have something coming soon (mentioned as forthcoming work in #IndiaMoving as a disciplining mechanism!)
One young engineer did some simple but amazing data visualization stuff using historical data (that shall be released shortly). Sitting for placements currently and as most engineers are these days, rather confused.
One PhD student from America spent 2 months analyzing historical corporate level data, computing leverage ratios and building an idea of why leverage changed over time.
One student, slogged hard, attended several courses at IIMA, got reference letters, and now is doing a PhD in UK with the SC/ST Scholarship given by the Government of Maharashtra. Truly remarkable growth.
Many more have started PhDs. Or were happy with their time even if they did not eventually pursue History. The best was when one intern got a job in a large corporate house in Bangalore in their archives section; Masters in History and job in MNC? Possible!
Bottom line is....If you are a Masters/PhD student interested in historical perspectives, do apply or share info on IIMA's History Internship. Apply only if you really want to and with solid reasons!

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Apr 2
IIMs and historically-minded research? Two new PhD theses coming from @IIMAhmedabad and @iimb_official study phenomena over nearly a century, especially on entrepreneurship.

Was lucky to be on both their dissertation committees. Brief thread on what we learn from them (1/7) Image
Manjunath A N (IRS officer) at @iimb_official looked at the entrepreneurial history of old Mysore region (1881-1956) based on a wide range of sources. This is just one page of many, on the type of sources used. Image
Among many findings which I will not disclose here, he shows how Bangalore became known as a science city by the 1950s itself and how critical state entrepreneurship was, and the links with private enterprise and Europeans . This is 1 page of many on state-owned firms. Image
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Oct 3, 2023
📢The 2023 Caste Census of Bihar allows us to see century-long demographic change in castes for a sizeable Indian region for the first time.

This thread compares the Bihar Census of 1931 with 2023 and reveals: Broad stability+ The significance of migration selectivity (1/12) Image
The last publicly available Caste Census was carried out in 1931 when Bihar was part of Bihar & Orissa. 10 districts of Bihar 1931 Census correspond to the modern state of Bihar (99% match). Marked in Census Admin Atlas 1931 map from 1-6 & 8-11 and listed in Census caste tables.
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Population changes because of migration and natural growth (fertility minus mortality). Bihar has had persistent high net outmigration (that reduces population growth) and relatively higher natural growth (late fertility transition) (which increases population growth).
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Jun 15, 2022
Here's the list of the ten largest companies of British India in 1921 by paid-up capital.

Today's thread is on the little known firm ranked at No. 1: Burma Corporation, a mining firm founded by an engineer who went on to become the President of the USA! (1/n)
Burma Corporation is remarkably less researched so much of what we know is because of recent research by @ProfBaillargeon via his doctoral thesis and this paper in @EntandSoc.
Mining was prevalent in the region around the Bawdwin Mines in northern Burma for a long time but took a new turn with the discovery of silver, lead and zinc deposits at Bawdwin in 1913. 39-year old Herbert Hoover, engineer & mining expert, helped set up Burma Co. (Pic: ES paper)
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Aug 6, 2021
Today was the first time in my life that I held a newspaper describing an Olympic Indian Hockey medal victory!
So I went back in time to see how it must have felt 11 previous times.
1928. Amsterdam. Gold Medal. No goals conceded by India in tournament.
Times of India. June 23.
1932. Los Angeles. Gold Medal. Only three teams that year. India beat Japan 11-1 and USA 24-1. 'Dhyanchand' and 'Rupsingh' starred in victories.
TOI. 1932. Aug 6 and 13. But not featured on the newspaper's front page!
1936. Berlin. Gold. Beat Germany 8-1 in the final. Dhyan Chand the star of the match.
TOI. 1936. Aug 17. Still not on the front page of the newspaper!
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Jul 26, 2021
Our inter-disciplinary research team estimates excess mortality in India from June 2020 to June 2021 at 2.7-3.4 million (most of it in the 2nd wave), using 3 different databases, including the only survey that asked a question on Covid deaths.
Pre-Print: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Great to learn from co-author Prof. Prabhat Jha and his team, who has probably spent more time over the past two decades working on Indian mortality than anyone else (See their "Million Death Study"). His twitter handle is literally @countthedead.
Also great to learn from @paulnovosad @AditiBhowmick18 @sankalpsharmaa. @devdatalab team has collated state-level data, from work of amazing journalists and researchers, and made it easily accessible online.
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Jul 15, 2021
How bad was the recent Covid wave shock on rural India?
Very Bad.
Important clues emerge from recently released death data through facilities-based Health Management Information system (HMIS).
First: States that took the hit early on.
Thread (1/n)
HMIS is different from CRS in that it is more rural, has less coverage and is facilities-based. Hence, noisier time series. Focussing on states with reasonably stable pre-pandemic baselines in this thread.
Excess mortality for April-May period, relative to average of 2018-19 baseline is HIGH. You can take trend growth into account, use different baselines and its still well past 100% for these states.
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