Mahendranath Sudhindranath

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Based in

India
Asia

Mahendranath Sudhindranath is a Senior Research Fellow finishing his doctoral studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He was the recipient of the Future Environmental Leader Scholarship 2023 from the DAAD-funded Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre and was enrolled at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His doctoral research focusses on the hydrological relationship between the rulers, their subjects, and religion – taking the case of the princely state of Travancore (encompassing areas that are part of the present-day states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu), from the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries (in colonial context). His interest revolves around environmental history, historical aspects of colonialism and climate change, the role of religion in water management, and socio-cultural-political transformations of agricultural societies.