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Nikhil Malik serves as a Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo. His doctoral research investigates the planned industrial township of Faridabad, conceived after the Partition of India, to explore intersections of urban development, refugee resettlement, and economic planning in post-Independence India.
Malik's research interests span Urban History, Refugee Studies, Economic Planning, Postcolonial Studies, Cold War History, Development Studies, History of Cities, and Labor History. He situates Faridabad within the global mid-twentieth-century New Town Movement, analyzing its dual role as a domestic instrument for labor regulation and a Cold War showcase of Indian modernity despite unmet utopian aspirations.
He is affiliated with the Critical Historiography research group at the University of Oslo, which employs critical methodologies to interrogate historical narratives and the construction of historical knowledge through interdisciplinary approaches.
