Publications

Journal Publications

• Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. (2025) “Mental health of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Suriname: A scoping review” International Journal of Social Psychiatry, (Sage publication) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640251412216 

• Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. (2025) “Mental health of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Guyana: A Scoping review” Geopsychiatry, (Elsevier publication) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geopsy.2025.100042

• Sathya D. & Kottai S.R. Archives, mental health systems, and the history of mental health in colonial South India: Critical questions. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Published online first on December 6, 2025. DOI: doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2025.092 

(This work was reviewed by Prof. Shardhanand Harinandan Singh, Hon. Professor of Girmitiyology, EIMT, Zürich, Switzerland, under the title "Girmitiyalogy Mental Health in Colonial South India reviewed December 11 2025" https://www.academia.edu/145370515/Girmitiyalogy_Mental_Health_in_Colonial_South_India_revieuwed_December_11_2025). 

Newspaper article – opinion page

• Sathya D. & Sudarshan R. Kottai. (2026, January 7). Scars that survive, Telegraph India.  https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/scars-that-survive-the-intergenerational-impact-of-colonial-indentureship-on-indian-diaspora-prnt/cid/2141420

UGC - Care listed journals

• 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. 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. Pp. 591-600. Impact Factor: 5. 75.

• Sathya D. (2023), “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. 

Book chapter

• Sathya D. (2025), "Breaking the Barriers: A Journey of a First-Generation Woman Scholar", Eds. Uttam Gaulee, Krishna Bista and Courtney Brown: 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

Ongoing research work

Book review

• Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. Review of the book A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive (In preparation) 

Journal publication

• Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. Mental health discourses and famine distress

• Sathya D. & Kottai S. R. Mental Health Discourses among the Indian Indentured Labourers in South Africa, with Special Reference to Natala Provinces. 

Guest Editor

• Special issue editor (along with Dr Sudarshan R Kottai, Assistant Professor, Department of HSS, IITPKD) on the topic of Crises, marginality and suffering: Revisiting socio-political and economic turmoil in South Asia in the journal History of Psychiatry (SAGE)