Certificate Program on
“Epidemics and Indian History”

20 Hours | Self Learning Program

Rs 499 (Inclusive of GST)

Course Overview:

In this course, the participants will learn the inter relationship between financial statements by analysing the financial data using various tools. This course also focuses on refining the analytical skills required for financial decision making.

1. At the end of the course you will learn

Identify the interlink between the financial statements
Apply different analytical tools to assess the performance of the company
Assess the value created by the firm to the shareholders.

2. Who should take up this course?

Anyone aspiring to be a finance professional

Professionals who want to refine their financial analytical skills.

3. What are the course prerequisites?

Participants will need to have access to a laptop/PC.

A logical bent of mind

Curiosity to learn new skill: financial analysis

Key Features

Self Learning Program

20 hours instructor-led, pre recorded lectures.

Continuous Assessment

Pre-course and post course evaluation assignment.

Industry Project

1 Project

Constant Learner Support

Digital office hours + teaching assistant + lifetime recording access on LMS.

Alumni Status

Industry event invitations + student network access

Career Enhancement

1 session for resume building and interview tips

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Meet Your Course Faculty

Dr. Tirthankar Roy

Professor in Economic History at the London School of Economics (LSE)

Professor Roy is a foremost economic historian of India who teaches South Asia and Global History at the LSE and is the author of “India in the World Economy from Antiquity to Present”, besides other renowned books and articles. He is credited with writing the fifth volume of the official history of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). His work on economic history tries to answer 3 questions. Is there a long-term pattern in Indian Capitalism? When did the big breaks occur in that pattern? Does history help us understand how capitalism works?

Professor Roy’s research interests lie in the areas of History and Development of South Asia, Global History, Empires, Environmental History. His recent publications include Law & the Economy in Colonial India (with Anand V. Swamy, University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Session-Wise Course Curriculum

Course Structure:

The sessions will be organized as open discussions and will be interspersed with short mini-lectures. A list of papers & book chapters will be circulated a week prior to the course, which will have to be read by the participants prior to the class.

In 4 sessions of 150 minutes each, the class will discuss the large scholarship on cholera, plague, smallpox, and malaria to understand the changing relationship between disease and Indian society. The aim of these sessions is not to explain the COVID experience better but to discover how history sheds light on the dynamics of epidemics and to find out what questions we should be asking when facing a natural disaster of this kind. At the end of the session, the class will have a good knowledge of these questions, and a knowledge of what literature to read on the history of epidemics.

The lectures will cover the following topics –

Pandemics and History – the lecturer will discuss some of the key themes, and most well-researched episodes from world history (like the Black Death and the Spanish flu) – after a 20 minutes Q and A, the class will discuss 4 papers that will be pre-circulated, especially what is being explained and with what evidence.
Cholera in India: In the same format, the lecturer will present an overview of the field, the class will discuss 4 pre-circulated papers or book chapters, all available online.
Plague in India: Ditto
Smallpox and malaria: The first 100 minutes of the session will discuss the scholarship in the same format as before. In the last 40-45 minutes, the lecturer will collect thoughts on origin, transmission, mitigation based on the previous sessions.