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Ninad Pandit is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. Trained as an Architect, Urban Planner and a Historian of South Asia, Ninad's interests revolve around radical politics, the history of development, the history of Marxism and the Left, and liberalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

His dissertation project, tentatively titled "Bombay Radicals," will examine the emergence of mass politics as a form of anti-colonial struggle in early twentieth century Bombay with the goal of rethinking the idea of ‘radicalism’ in Colonial India, as well as clarifying the idea of "the Left" under colonialism. 

Ninad holds a professional degree in Architecture from KRVIA, Mumbai University, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MA in History from Princeton. 

Publications:

"The Mughal Pavilion" (with Laura Lee Schmidt) in Hall, Suzanne; Fernández Arrigoitía, Melissa; Dinardi, Cecilia (eds.) Writing Cities, Vol. 1, London: The London School of Economics and Political Science (2010).

Conferences: (Selected) 

"The Mughal Pavilion: Conserving a Folly," (with Laura Lee Schmidt) Writing Cities Conference, The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics, London. Summer 2009. 

"Reappearances: Lexical Apparata for Disputed Artifacts,"Research In Progress Graduate Conference, Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring 2009 

"Dharavi in a World of Cities," American Association of Geographers Annual Convention, Boston MA. Spring 2008 

"Simian Cities" Writing Cities Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard University, Spring 2008 

Website: http://sp-am.org