University of Zurich
Department of History
Rämistr. 64
CH-8001 Zürich
Debjani Bhattacharyya


Professor of the History of the Anthropocene
- Climate and Environmental History
- Political Economy
- Anthropocene
- Legal History
- Empire Studies
Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta, in: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36 (2016), pp. 465-482
Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal, in: Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 61 (2018), pp. 1036-1073
Discipline and Drain: Settling the Moving Bengal Delta, in: Global Environment 11 (2018), pp. 236-257
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta. The Making of Calcutta, Cambridge 2018
A River is not a Pendulum: Sediments of Science in the World of Tides, in: Isis 112 (2021), pp. 141-149
From Memories to Forecasting: Narrating Imperial Storm Science, in: Mary S. Morgan/Kim M. Hajek/Dominic J. Berry (eds), Narrative Science. Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800, Cambridge 2022, pp. 164-184
Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene, in: Antoinette Burton/Renisa Mawani/Samantha Frost (eds), Biocultural Empire. New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, London 2024, pp. 199-213