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Affiliation: Graduate Institute, Geneva
Student status: Other
Level of education: Ph.D.
Field of Study: History
Joined: April 20, 2023
Atiya Hussain
CH
Member: Latin America, Core
Organizer: Economic History
Working groups
Research Interests
- Business
- Capitalism
- Currency
- Economic Development
- Economic History
- Finance
- Migration
- Monetary Policy
About
I bring a connected, world history approach to decolonization and state-making, with a particular focus on the relatively understudied economic aspects of the transition from Empire.
About my research
At the intersection of economic history, and partition and memory studies, my thesis examines the economic implications of decolonization of British India. The transition to the ‘national economy’ – the bedrock of post-war global economic order – entailed the un-mixing of an economy whose bureaucratic and economic intermediation had been integral to the British Empire. Independence/Partition resulted in a post-colonial order mediated by economic units far more constrained than British India’s expansive trade and monetary ties, with under-researched implications for British Indian companies. My methodology combines a microhistory of a late colonial financial publication with corporate and business archives, as well as national archives. The world history approach offers new perspectives on and illustrates the limits of state-centered narratives that take the establishment of the Dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947 as the end-point of decolonization.