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134266
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This paper studies photographs of Bombay's built environment, especially Dalit and working-class houses, taken by two social scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs are situated at the intersection of four discursive temporalities: (a) social reforms initiated by Indian nationalists of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries; (b) sanitary reforms and urban restructuring undertaken by city administrators and the colonial state, which reappeared vigorously after the plague epidemic of 1896; (c) colonial knowledge production, including census, labour and housing reports that informed academic social–scientific knowledge; and (d) Dalit and working-class social movements that aspired to transgressing the limits of reform in order to re-define self and the collective, and demand the redistribution of material resources.
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136674
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This paper, while examining the contested maritime spaces and geopolitical uncertainties that obtain along the proposed Maritime Silk Route, also suggests ways and means to ensure the success of the venture. However, it warns that some countries perceive the new route promoted by China as part of an expansionistic, mercantile and strategic policy, especially as a retort to the US's "Asia pivot". In centuries past, China’s seafaring ventures were not colonial in nature but rather aimed at building cultural and trade links. The new Silk Road Project likewise must be based on cooperation and trust between the nations of the region, particularly China and India, to prevent a new "Cold War" in the Pacific–Indian Ocean region
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135465
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Migration in its broadest sense implies spatial mobility, which is as old as human civilization itself. Research on migration came to be institutionalised since the 1960’s in the Western academia. The colonial states twin projects of state building and development led to the emergence of entirely new forms of migration, which were firmly rooted in the political economy of the colonial state and were highly gendered. Labour migration occurred within the confines of the colonies, in the emerging urban centres, mining and industrial sites and commercial farms became an important site for migration studies. The large-scale human movements at the behest of the colonial state, whether voluntary or forced, constitute an arena for the migration researchers. Researches on migration have focussed too on early migrations, in terms of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the Americas. In the past two or three decades, however, also the African dimensions of the Atlantic slave trade, “African slavery” and the “oriental slave” trade have been increasingly well researched.
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135461
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The legitimation of colonial state’s authority was accompanied by the delegitimation of pre-colonial authority at all levels ranging from the pre-colonial claimants to sovereignty to lower levels such as the ‘native princes’, chiefs and the like.”1 If we look into this part of the world, the North-East India, colonial state intervention was able to “delegitimise” not only the Ahoms of Assam but also other neighbouring hill polities including that of Burma (Myanmar). However, the colonial administrators and writers have presented the colonial intervention in this area, as the saviour of society and the action towards liberation of slaves as the greatest service to the humanity. The earlier generation of historians, which relied greatly upon the colonial sources, subscribed to colonial views in their writings. Consequently, the issue of resistance to the British rule in North-East India did not get the deserved space in the historiography of the region. This paper aims to bridge this gap. The first part of the paper studies the historiographical progress in this regard and the second part discusses the case of resistance of the Singpho and Khampti tribes of Arunachal Pradesh.
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