Prasannan parthasarathi biography of mahatma

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Prasannan Parthasarathi works in the Department of History, Boston College.

Prasannan Parthasarathi is a founder of the 25% Solution, which is building a citizen movement for cuts in the Pentagon budget.

He also teaches South Asian and Global History at Boston College with a focus on economic development.^[1]

Professor Parathasarathi joined the faculty in the fall of 1998. He teaches courses on modern South Asia and the British Empire.

He has recently completed a book on the economic and social history of eighteenth-century South India, and he is now engaged in a comparative study of economic development in eighteenth-century Eurasia.^[2]

He lives in Newton, MA, with his wife, Juliet Schor, and two children.

Education

PhD, Harvard University, 1992.^[3]

Representative Publications

• The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 (2009)
• "The State of Indian Social History," Journ