Ritam Sengupta

Ritam Sengupta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), specializing in the social history of time in South Asia. His project "Reconfiguring Seasonality: The Temporalities of Agrarian Practice in North India, 19th and 20th Centuries" investigates how temporality was restructured through agrarian labor, ecological changes, revenue systems, and monetization during colonial and postcolonial periods.

• Focuses on agrarian temporalities at the intersection of colonial modernity and pre-colonial continuities
• Examines irrigation infrastructure, state revenue collection, rural credit markets, and labor migration patterns
• Part of the ZMO's cross-cutting research initiative "Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia"