Pritam Singh
@BabasahebsSikh
Commonwealth Scholar, University of Cambridge (2019-2020)/PhD at the London School of Economics (2022-2026). Historian of caste in India and abroad.
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@BabasahebsSikh has published an article in the Oxford Academic journal 'Past & Present'. It talks about the history of caste and Indentured Indian sanitary workers.
Read the article here:
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While it is often suggested that caste largely diluted with the migrations of Indian indentured labourers, this article tells the story of how caste became entangled on ships and in colonies through the dirty work of sanitation.
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My article on caste and indentured Indian sanitary workers on ships and in colonial South Africa has been recently published with the Past and Present. Please do give it a read and share it widely. I will love to know what you all think of it!
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My article on caste and indentured Indian sanitary workers on ships and in colonial South Africa has been recently published with the Past and Present. Please do give it a read and share it widely. I will love to know what you all think of it!
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We are having three amazing scholars who have written on indentured and 'assisted' labour migrations from India. Dr Jonathan Connolly (Chicago) Dr Kalathmika Natrajan (Exeter) and Dr Purba Hossain (York) Please register and attend through the link. Also access through Zoom. :)
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We are organising a roundtable discussion on the history of the politics of overseas labour migrations from India after the abolition of slavery in 1833 until 1967. The event is funded by the Society for the Study of Labour History and @lsehistory.
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We are organising a roundtable discussion on the history of the politics of overseas labour migrations from India after the abolition of slavery in 1833 until 1967. The event is funded by the Society for the Study of Labour History and @lsehistory.
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Excited for this! Will be presenting with such amazing scholars. :)
If anyone is near Durban or Pietermaritzburg let me know. I am here for some time. :)
Capital collected by the BJP from Brahmin-Bania industries through electoral bonds donations could easily surpass the collected incomes of Bahujan households in India. Then they say that SCs and OBCs made the BJP win.
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Inlaks Foundation is open for scholarship applications, including for PhD students applying to @KingsCollegeLon.
Deadline: March 22, 2024
Find out more below:
In patna for sometime if anyone will like to meet up do message. :)
During the process of this petition, we also found discrimination against denotified tribes & habitual offenders in prison manuals. Some state prison manuals systematically classify “denotified tribes” as “habitual offenders” by using the two terms interchangeably.
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Happy Constitution Day to all the upper caste Sikhs who have been wishing to burn it since 1950. They were not really happy with the rights that were provided to women and the marginalised groups through a book that challneged the laws of Manu.
To a Democratic Recolution.
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I am happy to share that my PhD project on caste and indentured labour migration (being undertaken at the London School of Economics) has been awarded Martin Lynn Scholarship by the Royal Historical Society for archival research.
@RoyalHistSoc
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In the movements inspired by JNU leftsist many Bahujan students were put in the forefront to face tear gas, lathi charge so that people like Shehla Rashid could become leaders. So many Bahujan students suffered because of such movements. These people are having "change of heart".
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IITs are actually the best example of how public funded education is used for private profits. Engineers from IITs go work for the capitalists that make enough profits from technology. That was the Nehruvian idea of education, making India technologically efficient for the rich.
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I am selling my Macbook air 2017 Model bought in 2019. 8GB/128 GB. I am in chennai right now DM if interested.
Why would anybody want to celebrate the coming of a tyrant king who killed a lower-caste priest, Shambhuka?
