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Biosketch
Dr. Sathya D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad. Trained as a historian of colonial India, her research interests include famine history, mental health history, indentured labour system, social history of modern south India, colonial medicine, French colonial architectural history and migration history. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) short-term research grant. She served as an assistant professor in the Department of Arts, Koneru Lakshmaiah (KL) University, Andhra Pradesh, in academic years 2022 to 2024.
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Research
Publications
- Sathya D. and Kottai S. R. (2025) “Mental health of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Suriname,” International Journal of Social Psychiatry (in print).
- Sathya D. and Kottai S. R. (2025) “Mental health of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Guyana,” Geopsychiatry (Elsevier) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geopsy.2025.100042 (in print).
- Sathya D and Kottai S.R. (2025). Archives, mental health systems, and the history of mental health in colonial South India: Critical questions. Indian J Med Ethics. Published online first on December 6, 2025. DOI: doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2025.092
- Sathya D. (2025), "Breaking the Barriers: A Journey of a First-Generation Woman Scholar," in First in family: narratives of first-generation college journey, Vol. 3, pp. 17-21. Star Scholars Press, Maryland, USA. ISBN: 979-8-89524-044-1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32674/nza4d056
- Sathya D. (2016), “Graded Inequality, Poverty, Epidemics and Mortality during the Great Famine in Colonial South India”, Indian Journal of Dalit and Tribal Studies, Vol 4, Issue 2. ISSN no. 2348-1757. PP 60-76. Impact Factor: 0.565.
- Sathya D. (2019), “Intersection of Caste and Gender: A Study of Marginalised Women at the Time of Famine in 19th Century Colonial South India”, International Journal of Research and Analytical Review, Volume 6, Issue 1. 2349-1269. E-ISSN no.2348-1369; P-ISSN no.2349-5138. Pp591-600. Impact Factor: 5.75.
- Sathya D. (2024), “Different Approaches of South Indian Famines (Special reference to the second half of the nineteenth century”, Journal of Indian History and Culture, Vol 32, ISSN: 0975-7805, December 2023, pp 217-226.
