Aparajith Ramnath

Aparajith Ramnath is a historian of science, technology and business. He is the author of The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900–47 (Oxford University Press, 2017), and has also written for Scroll, Wire, The Hindu and FiftyTwo.in. Aparajith was trained as an electrical engineer at BITS Pilani, and as a historian of science and technology at Oxford University and Imperial College London. He has been an International Scholar of the Society for the History of Technology, a Charles Wallace India Trust grant awardee, a Sangam House Writing Fellow, and a recipient of the Young Historian of Science Award (2018) from the Indian National Science Academy. In addition to Chennai, London and Kozhikode, he has lived in Pune and Bengaluru, two cities that were central to the life of M. Visvesvaraya. Aparajith teaches at Ahmedabad University, where he is associate professor in the School of Arts and Sciences.