Shekhar Krishnan

National University of Singapore

“From Pathan Menace to Frontier Gandhi: Afghans in Early 20th Century Bombay City”

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Dr. Shekhar Krishnan is an historian and anthropologist of South Asia and a Consulting Editor with the Economic & Political Weekly in Mumbai, India. He is also currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster in Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.  In 2013 Dr. Krishnan completed his PhD in the Program in Science Technology & Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai from 2014 to 2015. He has been a consultant for the New York Public Library and the US Library of Congress and was co-founder and Associate Director of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) in Mumbai from 2000 to 2003.

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