I am a PhD student in the research group 'Modern Indian History' at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen. His PhD project is on the social history of dock workers in the Bombay Port in the second half of the 20th century. The research project aims to investigate the changing employment relations of the industrial labour force, from the end of second World War to the present by simultaneously and parallelly looking at two fields: labour law and labour processes. He hopes to investigate how two dynamics – segmentation of the workforce through legal processes of formalisation and informalisation and mechanization of certain labour processes through capital investment and business strategies – find their concrete expression in the changing employment relations of the dock workforce and their structure in Bombay port.

Prior to his joining as a research scholar at CeMIS in 2023, Rahul completed his Masters (MA) in Modern Indian Studies at CeMIS in 2022. He graduated with a Bachelors of Technology (BTech) in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from IIT Bombay in 2015 and worked as a Journalist with Peoples Archive of Rural India (PARI) between 2016-2018 reporting on questions of agrarian crisis, working class, migration and dispossession.