Rolf Bauer
Rolf Bauer
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E-mail: rolf.bauer@univie.ac.at
Rolf Bauer, born 1984, studied Development Studies (MA) and History (PhD) at the University of Vienna. He is interested in the economic, social and environmental history of South Asia with a focus on labour relations, agriculture, commodity frontiers, psychoactive substances and disasters.
In 2019 he published his first monograph The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India with Brill. Last year (2023), the volume Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century, which he co-edited with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, was published in the Studies in Global Social History Series (Brill).
He has held visiting professorships in the field of Economic and Social History and Global History at Central European University and the University of Vienna. Since fall 2022 he has been visiting professor for Modern South Asia at this department.
Research focus
Rolf Bauer’s current research focus is the field of historical disaster studies. He conducts a comparative analysis of three famines in late 19th century north India. The basic question is how societies in colonial India dealt with droughts and what socioeconomic factors increased or mitigated the effects of droughts.
All activities
The Peasant Production of Opium in 19th Century India
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The Bengal Opium Monopoly
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Die Rückkehr des Nationalismus
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Opium & Empire. Die Geschichte einer Drog in Britisch-Indien
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Zwischen Wien und Indien. Ein Erfahrungsbericht über Archivrecherchen zur Kolonialgeschichte Indiens
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Contract Choice in 19th Century Bihar
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Colonial State and Imperial Economy: post-1857 India.
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Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial India.
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Opium, Empire and the Indian Peasant
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Why India was vulnerable to famines during British rule. Local power structures and 'forced incorporation' into a world market.
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Opium, Empire und der indische Bauer
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Opiumproduktion im ländlichen Indien des 19. Jahrhunderts
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Die East India Company und der Opiumbauer. Die Kommerzialisierung einer Droge in Nordindien, ca. 1790 - 1840.
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Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien