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Biosketch
Dr. Sathya D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad, Kerala, India. Trained as a historian of colonial India, currently exploring interdisciplinary research on the history of mental health. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) short-term research grant, the Global Girmitya award and the Tamil Nadu Council of Historical Research grant. She has publications in Scopus-indexed journals, UGC CARE-listed journals, an opinion page in a newspaper and her achievements published in a magazine. She served as an assistant professor in the Department of Arts at Koneru Lakshmaiah (KL) University in Andhra Pradesh from 2022 to 2024.
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Research
Publications
- Sathya D. & Sudarshan R. Kottai. (2026, January 7). Scars that survive. Telegraphindia.com; Telegraph India. https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/scars-that-survive-the-intergenerational-impact-of-colonial-indentureship-on-indian-diaspora-prnt/cid/2141420
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Review of the article Sathya D. & Kottai, S. R. (2025). Archives, mental health systems, and the history of mental health in colonial South India: Critical questions." by Prof Shardhanand Harinandan Singh, Hon Professor Girmitiyology, EIMT, Zürich, Switzerland
- Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. (2025) “Mental health of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Suriname,” International Journal of Social Psychiatry (in print).
- Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. (2025) “Mental health of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Guyana,” Geopsychiatry (Elsevier) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geopsy.2025.100042 (in print).
- Sathya D & Kottai S.R. (2025). Archives, mental health systems, and the history of mental health in colonial South India: Critical questions. Indian J Med Ethics. Published online first on December 6, 2025. DOI: doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2025.092
- Sathya D. (2025), "Breaking the Barriers: A Journey of a First-Generation Woman Scholar," in First in family: narratives of first-generation college journey, Vol. 3, pp. 17-21. Star Scholars Press, Maryland, USA. ISBN: 979-8-89524-044-1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32674/nza4d056
- Sathya D. (2016), “Graded Inequality, Poverty, Epidemics and Mortality during the Great Famine in Colonial South India”, Indian Journal of Dalit and Tribal Studies, Vol 4, Issue 2. ISSN no. 2348-1757. PP 60-76. Impact Factor: 0.565.
- Sathya D. (2019), “Intersection of Caste and Gender: A Study of Marginalised Women at the Time of Famine in 19th Century Colonial South India”, International Journal of Research and Analytical Review, Volume 6, Issue 1. 2349-1269. E-ISSN no.2348-1369; P-ISSN no.2349-5138. Pp591-600. Impact Factor: 5.75.
- Sathya D. (2024), “Different Approaches of South Indian Famines (Special reference to the second half of the nineteenth century”, Journal of Indian History and Culture, Vol 32, ISSN: 0975-7805, December 2023, pp 217-226.
