A historian of science, technology and industry in South Asia, Aparajith teaches courses on Indian society, business history, and the global history of industrialisation. Having graduated in electrical and electronics engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, he did his postgraduate work at the University of Oxford (MSc) and Imperial College London (PhD), researching the history of technical education and professional engineers in twentieth-century India. His monograph titled The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry and the State,1900-47 is scheduled for publication in 2017 by Oxford University Press. Aparajith was named an International Scholar of the Society for the History of Technology for the years 2015 and 2016.