Michael Mann is Professor in the Department of South Asian History and Society at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His areas of interest include South Asian economic and social history, environmental history, and urban history.
Wiring the Nation is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Indian Newspapers. Mann's work in this archive is most welcome and will, one hopes, encourage more young scholars to dig in these understudied trenches. * Priti Joshi, Victorian Studies *