Faculty Profile

• Teaching, Supervision, Research and Course Design at Ambedkar University Delhi, December 2011 onwards.
• Post-doctoral Research Associate at Linnaeus University, Centre for Colonial and Post-colonial Studies, Sweden, January 2016-December 2016. Subject: Construction Business and Work Relations in India 1860-1869.
• Post-doctoral Research and Weekly-workshop Coordination Experiences from University of Johannesburg (UJ): Post-doctoral research project title ‘Mining Auto/Biographies: An oral history of the southern African mining people 1951-2011’.
• Doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi: Thesis title ‘Work and Culture on the Mines: Jharia Coalfields 1890s-1970’.

• Assistant Professor (Senior), Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), 19 December 2011 onwards.
• Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South African Research Chair in Social Change, Bunting Road Campus, 2012 onwards.

• History of the Condition of Wellbeing, Labour Relations and labour processes, and Entrepreneurial Practices
• Methodology of Historical Economics, Historical Anthropology, Oral History and Memory Study
• A Comparative Enquiry into Experiences of the Mining Communities in India (the Jharia Coalfields) and South Africa (Witbank Coalfields)
• Skill Formation, Human Capital Development, and Welfare Outcomes in the Construction Sector
• Religion and Welfare Institutions in the Age of Industrialisation

Other Academic Distinction/Award

• Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellowship (SYLFF) 2006-2009 (A fellowship managed at J.N.U. in the form of ‘Jawaharlal Nehru Young Leadership Fellowship’ for PhD)
• Recipient of Junior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) 2004-2005.
• Independent Urban Research Scholarship from SARAI (CSDS) 2003-2004.
• Short-term Urban Research Stipend from SARAI (CSDS) 2002-2003.
• Contingency Grant for Field-Research from ICHR 2003-2004.

• Nite, Dhiraj Kumar et al. ‘Skill, its Agencies and Institutions: The Formation of human capital in Nineteenth-century Western India,’ Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of Education History, 2023, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2023.2213184.  Print ISSN: 0030-9230 Online ISSN: 1477-674X.
• Dhar, Debasree and D.K. Nite, ‘Occupational Disease, its Recognition and Classification: An Indian Coalfield, 1946-71,’ Extractive Industries and Society (Journal), August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101148. Elsevier Press.
• Dhar, Debasree and D.K. Nite, 'The Compensation Law and its Antagonistic Administration: The Indian Coalfield of Raniganj, 1923-71', Labor History (journal), 2022, Vol. 63 (3), pp. 391–405. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2022.2109010. USA. ISSN: 0023656X.). Taylor & Francis.
• Nite, D.K. and B.C. Das, ‘Caste, Class and Development Experiences: Discourses on social in-/equality, merit and welfare in Modern India,’ International Journal of Community and Social Development, 2022, pp. 1-15, DOI: 10.1177/25166026221123482. ISSN: 2516-6026. Online ISSN: 2516-6034 (Australia). Sage Publ.
• .Nite, Dhiraj Kumar and B.C. Das, ‘Caste, Power and Representational Claims in Modern India,’ Explorations: E-Journal of Indian Sociological Society, Vol. 6 (1), October 2022, pp. 163-84. ISSN: 2581-5741.http://app.insoso.org/insosojournal/Repository/9Dhiraj_Kumar_Nite.pdf
• Nite, D.K. ‘Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens’ Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859–69,’ in Gunnel Cederlöf (Ed.), The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia, Rutledge (Taylor and Francis) Publ, 2022, pp. 72-100. DOI: 10.4324/9781003317227-4. ISBN: 9781032320922.
• Nite, D.K, ‘Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western India,’ in Gunnel Cederlöf (Ed.), The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia, Routledge (Taylor & Francis) Publ, 2022, pp. 101-34. DOI: 10.4324/9781003317227-5. ISBN: 9781032320922.
• Nite, D.K, ‘Labour and Development in India: A Historical Perspective, 1600s-1940s,’ in Sasikumar (Ed.), Role of Labour in India’s Development (Publication for Azadi Ke Amrit Utsav), Noida: VV Giri National Labour Institute, 2022, pp. 61-67. ISBN: 978-93-82902-80-5.
• Nite, DK, ‘Construction Workers, Remuneration and Welfare Levels: An Indian Region during the 1860s,’ in Jan Lucassen and Radhika Sheshan (Eds.), Wage Earners in India 1500–1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context, Delhi: Sage Publication, 2022, pp. 241-74. https://doi.org/10.4135/978-93-5479-364-6 ISBN: 978-93-5479-363-9 (PB) ISBN: 978-93-5479-369-1 (eBook
• Nite, DK. ‘The Aspiration of a Civilised, Human and Dignified Life: An enquiry into Sociability, Sociality and Wellbeing of Migrants in an Indian Coalfield’. DOI: 0.4324/9781003199120-3. In Sadan Jha and Pushpendra Kumar Singh, Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living, London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 29-58. ISBN 9781032047362. eBook ISBN 9781003199120.
• Nite, DK. ‘Employee Benefits, Migration and Social Movement: An Indian Coalfield, 1895-1970’, Labor History (Journal: ISSN: 0023656X.), Vol. 60 (4), 2019, pp. 372-91.
• Nite, DK. ‘Negotiating the Mines: The Culture of Safety in the Indian Coalmines, 1895-1970’, Studies in History, Vol. 35 (1), 2019, pp. 88-118. ISSN: 02576430
• Nite, DK. ‘The Colliery Town and Labour Migration: An Enquiry into the Modern-industrial Reproduction Arrangement in an Indian Coalfield, 1895-1970’, Public-Lecture Series 10, published by TISS Patna, September 2018, pp. 1-49.
• Nite, DK. ‘Archives, Being and Representation: Studies in the formation and usage of grassroots archives', Journal of Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences (RILAS) (Waseda University, Japan), October 2018, Vol. 6. pp. 575-577. RILAS 研究部門「知の蓄積と活用にむけた方法論的研究」ISSN 2187-8307.
• Nite, DK, ‘A Fortune Maker: Life and the Business Practice of Joseph Stephens, India and Scandinavia 1860-69’, in Margareta Petersson (Ed.), Fran Britishka Indien till Huseby Bruk, Lund: Arkiv Forlog, 2018, pp. 135-166. ISBN:978-91-7924-304-3.
• Nite, DK. 'Labor, Wages, and Living Standards of Working People: Early Modern and Colonial India, 1600–1870', in Kristina Myrvold and Soniya Billore (Eds.), India: Research on Cultural Encounters and Representations, 2018, Stockholm: Makadam Forlog, pp. 131-161. ISBN: 978-91-7061-253-4.
• Stewart, P. and DK Nite, ‘From fatalism to Mass Action to Incorporation to Neoliberal Individualism: Worker safety on South African mines, c.1955–2016’, Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44 (152), 2017, pp. 252-271. ISSN: 03056244.
• Nite, DK and Paul Stewart, ‘Consenting to Labour Appropriation?’: The Mineworker on South African Gold and Coalmines, 1951-2011’, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 52 (2), 2017, pp. 142-156. ISSN: 00219096.
• Nite, DK, ‘Worshiping the Colliery-goddess: An Exploration of the religious view of safety in Indian coalminers (Jharia), 1895-2009,’ Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 50 (2), June 2016, pp. 163-186. ISSN: 00699667.
• Nite, DK, ‘Labour and Development: Historical Experiences,’ in IGNOU Books for MA in Labour and Development (Block II/ Conceptualising Labour – I, Unit IV), 2016.
• Nite, DK, ‘Refashioning Women’s Self and Mining: Homemakers and Producers on the South African Mines, 1976-2011’, Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and Social Movements, Vol. 54 (December), 2015, pp. 7-36. P-ISSN: 2197-0386; E-ISSN: 2197-0394.
• Nite, DK, ‘Wo/men Miner and Family-oriented Labour: An Indian Colliery (Jharia), Indian History: Archive India Institute, Vol. 2, 2015, pp. 1-36. http://archiveindia.in/indian-history . ISSN: 2348-2850.
• Nite, DK, ‘Familist Movement and Social Mobility: Jharia Coalfields 1895-1970’, Indian Historical Review (Journal), Vol. 41, no. 2, December 2014, pp. 297-322. ISSN: 03769836.
• Nite, DK and P Stewart, ‘Revisiting the Moral Economy: The Mineworker in South African Minefields, 1951-2011’, Labour and Development (Journal), Vol. 21, no. 1, June 2014, pp. 24-44. ISSN: 09730419.
• Nite, DK, ‘Sharing Life-history and Other Memory: the mining persons in South Africa, 1951-2011’, South African Historical Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2014, pp. 122-141. ISSN: 02582473.
• Nite, DK, ‘Reproduction Preferences and Wages: The Mineworker in the Jharia Coalfield 1895-1970’, Studies in History (Journal), Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2014, pp. 55-87. ISSN 02576430.
• Nite, DK, ‘Slaughter Mining and ‘Yielding Collier’: The Politics of Safety in Jharia Coalfields, 1895-1950’, pp. 105-128, in K Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Cultures and Ecologies of Coal in India, (England: Ashgate, 2014). ISBN 978-1-4724-2470-9.
• Nite, DK and P Stewart, Mining Faces: An oral history of gold and coal mineworkers in South Africa 1951-2011, (Jacana Press, Johannesburg, 2012). ISBN971920196578.
• Nite, DK, ‘Work, Family and the Reproduction of Life: The Phase of Early Industrialisation in the Jharia Coalfields 1890—1940s’, pp. 82-105, in Marcel Van der Linden and Prabhu P. Mohapatra (eds), Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories, (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2009). ISBN 9788189487508.

Book Review and other popular essays

• Nite, D.K. Review essay on ‘Cultural Labour: Conceptualising the ‘Folk Performance’ in India by Brahma Prakash, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019.’ In tirchhispelling,wrodpress.com 17 February 2023. https://tirchhispelling.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/review-essay-of-cultural-labour-conceptualising-the-folk-performance-in-india-dhiraj-nite/
• Nite, D.K. Review Essay on ‘अली रज़ा, ररवोलयूशनरी पासट्स : कमयुिनसट इंटरनैशनिलज़म इन कोलोिनयल इंिडया. केि्ब्रिज युिनविसडटी पेस, केि्ब्रिज. (2020).’ In Pratiman: journal of samaj, samay and sanskriti, Vol. 9, 2021, pp. 280-89. ISSN:2320-8201. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRX0Y6b1lugt8pKX2ZwMP-cDinFzz1D-/view?usp=share_link
• Nite, DK, Review essay on ‘The great agrarian conquest: the colonial reshaping of a rural world, by Neeladri Bhattacharya, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2018, 522 pp., Rs.1195 (hardcopy), ISBN 978-81- 7824-524-9’, in South Asian History and Culture, Vol. 12 (4), 2021, pp. 477-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2021.1956119.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour of Love: An unpaid internship’, A review essay on Moira Weigel, Labour of Love: The Invention of Dating. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publisher, 2016. ISBN: 9780374713133. At TirchhiSpelling, 30 June 2017.
• Nite, DK. A Book Review of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Rana P. Behal (Eds.), The Vernacularisation of Labour Politics, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016. In Labour and Development (Journal), Vol. 23 (1), June 2016, pp. 136-144.
• Nite, DK. ‘Plantation Capitalism and the Working People’, A Review Essay on Rana P Behal, One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam, Delhi: Tulika Books, 2014. ISBN-10: 9382381430. Price - Rs 900. Seminar Magazine, June 2016.
• Nite, DK. ‘Bollywood Within and Without: A reading of Tanu Weds Manu Returns (a Feature Film),’ Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L No. 25, June 20, 2015.
• Nite, DK, A Book Review published in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. - XLIX No. 15, April 12, 2014: Alexander, Peter, T. Lekgowa, B. Mmope, L. Sinwell, and B. Xezwi, 2013. Marikana: A view from the mountain and a case to answer, Johannesburg: Jacana Media. ISBN 978-1-4314-0733-0. PP. 210, Rand 120.
• Nite, DK, Book Review published in Studies in History, Vol. 28 (2) 2012: Balachandran, G. Globalising Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, 1870-1945, New Delhi: OUP, 2012.
• Nite, DK, ‘The World of Lascars’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVIII, no 34, August 24, 2013.
• Nite, DK, Ruhr Mining Museum: An Institution of the Post-industrial Society’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, 2, January 2, 2014.
• Nite, DK, ‘Showcasing a Proletarian Past: The Prague Communist Museum’, Economic and Political Economy, Vol. XLVIII, 48, November 30. 2013.
• Nite, DK, ‘The Wage Struggle at Marikana: The South African Platinum Industry, 2012,’ 24 September 2012. Published at http://www.socialsciencecollective.org/wage-struggle-marikana-mine-workers/
• Nite, DK, ‘Premchand Ki Dalit Kahaniya: Ek Samajshastriye Adhyan,’ Jan Vikalp, March 2007.
• Nite, DK, Book Review published in Labour and Development (Journal), Vol. 12 (2), August 2006: Labour Geographies: Workers and the Landscape of Capitalism, New York: 2001, ISBN-10: 1572306858.
• Nite, DK. ‘Becoming South African Citizens: An Exposition of the Formation of Political Identity between the Indian Diaspora’, April 2014. Published at https://tirchhispelling.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/becoming-south-african-citizens-dhiraj-k-nite/

Project Report

• Nite, D.K and Deepti Mulgund. ‘Skill and Knowledge Formation, Institutions and Welfare Outcomes: Western India in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, ICSSR Major Project, March 2023-25.
• Nite, DK. ‘Construction Workers, Wages and the Wellbeing: An Indian Region, 1860-1868’. A Project report submitted to Ambedkar University Delhi under the scheme of ‘Seed Grants’ 2017-18.
• Nite, DK and P Stewart, Mining Faces: An oral history of gold and coal mineworkers in South Africa 1951-2011, (A Project of South African Research Chair in Social Change (University of Johannesburg) for the 9th International Mining History Congress, Johannesburg 2012).
• Nite, DK. ‘Precarious Life, Terrible Work: The Jharia Coalfields 1890s -1970’, A report of the Independent Research Project, submitted at the V.V. Giri National Labour Research Institute (Noida). 2008-2010..

A List of Conference Proceedings of those Attended and Organised:

• Nite, D.K. ‘, Decolonisation and Management Movement: the making of managerial cadre in India, 1948-72’, paper presented at Nagananda International Institute of Buddhist Studies, Sri Lanka, 24-25 July 2023.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Workers Housing and Social Welfare: Mineworkers in South Africa and India, 1940s-60s’, paper presented at SASA Congress, Kwazulu Natal University (South Africa), 5-6 July 2023
• Nite, D.K. ‘Archives, Institution and its Usage’, A Public Lecture, Department of History, Benaras Hindu University, 8 April 2023
• Nite, D.K. ‘Women’s Labour and Welfare: the Indian Extractive Industries, 1941-2015’, An Invited lecture at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, 30 January 2023.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Skill, its Agencies and Institutions: The Formation of Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Western India,’ A Paper presented at Indian History Congress, Chennai, 27-29 December 2022.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Skill Development and Welfare Gains: Scope and Substance of Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century W9estern India,’ A Paper Presented at 5th Asian Historical Economics Conference, Thailand (Chulalongkorn University), 7-8 December 2022.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Skill, its Agencies and Institutions: The Formation of Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Western India,’ A Talk Delivered at Bihar State Archives, 18 October 2022.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Skill Development and Welfare Gains: Scope and Substance of Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Western India,’ A Paper Presented at 5th Asian World Historians Conference, New Delhi, 12-13 October 2022.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Time and Welfare: An enquiry into the temporality of industriousness and life course, Indian Industry 1895-1970,’ A Paper Presented at the Timely Histories Conference, Organised by ZMO (Berlin) and CSDS, Delhi, 12-14 October 2022.
• Nite, D.K., ‘The Confluence of Art, Labour and the Mining Industry: Black Coal/ White Cube,’ A Lecture Delivered at Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Science Gallery Bengaluru, on 16th July 2022. https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/video/black-coal-white-cube/
• Nite, D.K. Discussant on ‘The Time and Space of Railways: markets, work and circulation in South Asia,’ Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Gottingen University, 16-18 June 2022.
• Nite, D.K. ‘Managing the Mines during Decolonisation: Industrial Management between Profitability and Workplace Safety in the Indian coalmines, 1937-71, Paper Presented at the Authors’ Workshop on Worlds of Management: Europe’s Entanglement and Management Knowledge since 1945, Vienna University (Centre for Contemporary History), 12-13 May 2022.
• Nite, DK. Chair and Discussant on ‘Non-normative Mobilities and Place-making “through” and “against” Statist Borders,’ in an International Online Conference on ‘Multiple Decolonialities and the Making of Asian Commons,’ Organised by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, on 11/18 February 2022.
• Nite, DK, ‘Religion and Welfare Institutions in an Industrial Age,’ A Key Lecture Delivered as an invited speaker at the Workshop on ‘Living the Industries: People, Life and Literature' at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, on 27th November 2021.
• Nite, DK. ‘Workers’ Housing and State Welfares: Mineworkers in South Africa and India, 1940s-60s,’ Paper Presented at the International Conference of All India Labour Historians (AILH), New Delhi, 11-16 November 2021.
• Nite, DK, One of the Organising Coordinators of the ‘National Young Researchers’ Conference on New Researches in the History of the Indian Subcontinent,’ 28-29 May 2021.
• Nite, DK. ‘Classifying Occupational Hazards: An exposition of the narratives of precarious life, Indian Mines 1895—1970’, Paper Presented at the 4th Ireland India Institute Annual South Asian Studies Conference, Dublin, 28-20 April 2021.
• Nite, Dk. ‘Managing the Mines: An Enquiry into the Safety Rationale of the Management on the Indian Coalmines 1940s—1960s’, Paper Presented at the Workshop on Worlds of Management: Transregional Approaches to Management Knowledge since 1945, Vienna, 14-16 April 2021.
• Nite, DK. One of the Organising Coordinators of the First Annual Conference of the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) on ‘Rethinking South Asia: Alternative Paradigms, Practices and Discourses,’ New Delhi, 7-9 November 2020.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Remuneration and the Wellbeing: The Construction Workers in an Indian Region during the 1860s’, Paper Presented at the Conference on ‘the Underbelly of the Empire: Workers, Contracts, and the Social Economy of the Industrial Turn’, New Delhi, 11-12 December 2019.
• Nite, DK. ‘Multiple Times and Unified Process: An examination of interweaving of formalisation and informalisation in an Indian coalfield, 1947-1970,’ Paper presented in the Conference on ‘Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Processes’ at Gottingen University, 20-12 November 2019.
• Nite, DK. ‘Construction Workers, Remuneration and Levels of Living: An Indian Region during the 1860s’, Presented at the Conference on Wages, Prices and Small Change in India 1300-1875’, on 20 July 2019 at Pune University.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Dis-/entitlement and Levels of Living: India 1600s-1870’, Presented at a conference on ‘Education and Intellectual Traditions in South Asia’, on 11-12 July 2019 at NMML in New Delhi.
• Nite, DK. ‘Worker Housing and State Welfares: The Colliery Workers in South Africa and India, 1940s-60s’, Paper Presented at a Conference on ‘Social Change from Below’, on 12-14 June 2019, at University of Johannesburg.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Wages and the Wellbeing: The Construction Workers in an Indian Region during the 1860s’, Presented at the Conference on ‘Wages, Wage Payments and Small Change in India 1300-1875’, on 3 April 2019 at ICAS:MP (M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies: ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’, New Delhi.
• Nite, DK. Discussant of a panel on ‘Grassroots Archives: A Japanese Experience’, Panel at the Conference of Association of Asian Studies, New Delhi, 6-8 July 2018.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practice, Wages, and Welfare Ratio: The Indian Subcontinent 1860-1868’, Presented at the International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians (New Delhi), 26-28 March 2018.
• Nite, DK, ‘Worker Housing and the Politics of Reproduction: Colliery mineworkers in India, circa 1940s−1950s’, Presented at the Conference of French Network of South Asian Studies, Sciences Po University, Paris (France) 25-28 June 2017

• Nite, DK. Discussant of a panel on ‘the Migrant and the State: Colonialism to Neoliberalism’, A Conference organised by TISS Patna, 29-November – 1 December 2018.
• Nite, DK. ‘Grassroots Archives: A Japanese Experience’, Panel at the Conference of Association of Asian Studies, New Delhi, 6-8 July 2018.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practice, Wages, and Welfare Ratio: The Indian Subcontinent 1860-1868’, Presented at the International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians (New Delhi), March 2018.
• Nite, DK. ‘Whatever Happened to Worktime: Manufacturing of Industriousness on the Indian Mines, 1895-1970’, Presented a Conference on Money and Time, Gottingen University, 17-18 December 2017.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour, Wages, and Levels of Living: The Indian Subcontinent 1860-1868’, Presented at the Workshop of Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University (Sweden), 9-10 December 2017.
• Nite, DK, ‘Worker Housing and the Politics of Reproduction: Colliery mineworkers in India and South Africa, circa 1940s−1950s’, Presented at the Conference of French Network of South Asian Studies, Paris (France) 25-28 June 2017.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour, Wages, and Levels of Living: The Indian Subcontinent 1600-1870’, Presented at The Conference on Ambedkar’s Contribution to Indian Politics and Society at DAV College Amritsar, on 17 March 2017.
• Nite, DK. ‘A Fortune Maker: Life and business of Joseph Stephens, India and Scandinavia 1860-1869’, presented at the Centre for Concurrencies in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University (Sweden), on 15 December 2016.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practice, Wage and the Welfare Ratio: The Construction Worker in India (Maharashtra), 1860-68’, A Presentation at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Gottingen University, Germany, on 15 November 2016.
• Nite, DK. ‘Employee Benefits and the Migrant Workers: The Indian Coalfield (Jharia), 1895-1970’, presented at the Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians, New Delhi (Noida), 21-23 March 2016.
• DK. ‘Claiming the Mining Sense: The Mining Persons in South African Gold and Coalmines, 1952-2012,’ Presented at the Symposium on Pushing the Boundaries, Mabula Lodge (Limpopo, South Africa), 24-26 June 2015.
• Nite, DK. ‘Wo/men Mineworkers and Family-oriented Labour: Indian Colliers 1895-1948’, presented at the International Mining History Congress, Charters Tower (Australia), 6-11 July, 2014.
• Nite, DK, ‘Revisiting the Labour Economy: The Mineworker in South African Minefields, 1951-2011’, presented at the ‘Symposium on Politics of Social Change and Social Change in Politics’, Johannesburg, 2-4 July 2014.
• DK, ‘Appropriation of Labour? The Mineworkers in South African Gold and Coal Mines, 1951-2011’, presented at the International Conference on ‘Labour History: Return to Politics?’, Delhi (Noida), 22-24 March 2014.
• DK, ‘‘This roof will collapse and offices will be closed if the woman is here’: Experiences of safety and women on the gold and coal mines in South Africa’, presented at the Digging Treasure Conference, Essen (Germany), 21-23 November 2013.
• Nite, DK, ‘Wages for Work: An examination of the production preferences of mineworkers in Jharia Coalfields 1895-1970’, presented at the Sixth Global Studies Conference, 5-7 September 2013, New Delhi.
• Nite, DK, Part of a team responsible for organizing the 9th International Mining History Congress (IMHC), Johannesburg 2012, April 17-20.
• Nite, DK, ‘Whatever Happened to Work-time: An examination of the nature of the Industrious Revolution, Jharia Coalfield 1895-1970’, presented at the IMHC 2012 and Asian Historical Economists’ Congress, Hitotsubashi University (Japan), September 2012.
• Nite, DK, ‘Narratives of Mining Life: The contribution of life history to mining history on the South African mines, 1951-2011’, presented at the International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH), VV Giri National Labour Institute (Noida), 22-24 March 2012.
• Nite, DK, ‘Classifying Accidents: The Meaning of Work Hazards, Jharia Coalfields 1900 – 1970’, presented at the Interdisciplinary-Net Conference of the Value of Work, Prague: October 31- November 2, 2011.
• Nite, DK, ‘The Foundation of Wages: an examination of the reproduction and productiveness debate, Jharia coalfield, 1890s-1970’, presented at the South Asian Conference on the Politics of Poverty and Poverty of the Politics, Goettingen University, July 5-8, 2011.
• Nite, DK, ‘Reproduction Culture in the Coal Town: A study of family life and memory of miners, Jharia Coalfields 1920s – 1960s’, presented at the Workshop ‘Summer Academy: 'Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History’, Point Sud. Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako/ Mali, November 1 - 9, 2010.
• DK, ‘Negotiating the Mines: The Politics of Safety in the Jharia Coalfields 1890s-1960s’, International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians, VV Giri Labour Institute Noida (Delhi), March 2010.
• Nite, DK, ‘Long Day, Flexible Hours: An enquiry into the Work, Time and Politics, Jharia Coalfields 1890s–1920s’, (New Delhi: Conference of Association of Labour Historians, March 2006.
• Nite, DK, ‘Women and Work: an enquiry into the prohibition of women’s underground mining’, (New Delhi: Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians and International Social History Review, November 1-3, 2005).

Lectures Delivered

• Nite, DK, ‘Religion and Welfare Institutions in an Industrial Age,’ A Key Lecture Delivered as an invited speaker at the Workshop on ‘Living the Industries: People, Life and Literature' at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, on 27th November 2021.
• Nite, DK, ‘Skill Development, its Institutions and Agencies: scope and substance of human capital in 19th century Western India,’ an invited special lecture at the College of Social Work, Nagpur University, 19 July 2021.
• Nite, DK, ‘Migration and Emigration in Modern Indian History, A Lecture Delivered at 5th Orientation Programme at TISS Patna, 18th March 2021.
• Nite, DK, ‘Migrations in Modern History: Colonial and Postcolonial India’, A Lecture Delivered at TISS Patna, 14-14 February 2020.
• Nite, DK. ‘Archival Method’, A Talk Delivered at Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, 14 March 2019.
• Nite, DK. ‘Migrations in Modern History: Colonial and Postcolonial India’, A Talk delivered at TISS Patna, 19-20 February 2019.
• Nite, DK. ‘Employee Benefits, Migration and Social Struggles: An Indian Coalfield, 1895-1970’, A Talk delivered at TISS Patna and Patna University, 19 April 2018.
• Nite, DK. ‘A Fortune Maker: Life and the Business Practice of Joseph Stephens: India and Scandinavia 1860-1868’, A Talk delivered at Huseby Estate Museum (Sweden), on 11 December 2017.
• Nite, DK. ‘Labour Practices, Wages, and Living Standards: The Indian Subcontinent 1600-1870’, A Talk Delivered at Rajdhani College (University of Delhi), on 29 March 2017.
• Nite, DK, ‘Memory, Sources and Historical Analysis’, Five Lectures Delivered at Tezpur University (Sociology Department), 12-16 October 2015.
• Nite, DK, ‘Globalisation and Liberalisation: Impacts on Labouring Life and Labour Movement’, Mahendergarh: Central University of Haryana (Law Department), May 1, 2015.
• Nite, DK, ‘Approach to ‘A New Labour History’ in South Asia’, at Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 13 October 2014.
• Nite, DK, ‘Nelson Mandela: Gandhi of South Africa’, at St Froebel Higher Secondary School, Paschim Vihar, Delhi, 18 October 2014.
• Nite, DK, ‘The Rise of Industrial Elites in India: A discussion on three forms of entrepreneurship’, at Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (PhD Programme), 21-22 July 2014.

Dissertation and Thesis Supervised

• Debasree Dhar (S185DHS01), PhD Thesis Completed, ‘Capitalism and the Dynamics of State Welfare: The Deprivation and Entitlement of the Working People in an Indian Coalfield, 1946-72’. School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, August 2023. 
• Dhiraj Kumar, ‘Advancing De-castification: An Action Research into the Inter-caste Relations, Chhattisgarh,’, MPhil Dissertation, AUD, 2020.
• Nabhojeet Sen, ‘Convict Labour Regime in Colonial India, 1820-1870’, M.Phil. Dissertation submitted at Ambedkar University Delhi 2017.
• Peeyush Gaur, ‘From a Duck-Shooting Site to a National Park: A Study of Socio-Ecological Relationship at the Keoladeo Ghana Park’, M.Phil. Dissertation submitted at Ambedkar University Delhi 2015.
• Ruby Saini, ‘Claiming a Respectable Status: the Malis and Sainis in the Punjab, 1910-1970’, M.Phil. Dissertation submitted at Ambedkar University Delhi 2015.