Sathya D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad. Trained as a historian of colonial India, her research interests include famine history, mental health history, indentured labour system, social history of modern south India, colonial medicine, French colonial architectural history and migration history. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) short-term research grant.