by royalhistsoc | 04 May 2021 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race
The work undertaken by lower caste Indian women during the Second World War is both surprising and shocking. For the latest post in the ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Urvi Khaitan — a current PhD researcher — reveals how tens of thousands of women worked above and below...
by royalhistsoc | 26 Apr 2021 | Writing Race
How might we address limitations in the teaching of empire, and how do we raise awareness of marginalised individuals omitted from prevailing narratives? In this third post for our new ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Serena Cheyenne — a recent MA...
by royalhistsoc | 18 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work
Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...
by | 29 Jan 2020 | Guest Posts
Empires are defined by movement—whether of goods, ideas or peoples. Bringing sugar to the metropolitan plate has a long and complicated history, involving labour migration across continents, instances of plantation brutality, slavery, and other forms of unfree labour....
by | 27 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts
Professor Sushil Chaudhury, historian of eighteenth-century Bengal, and General President Elect of the Indian History Congress, died earlier this year. In this piece for the RHS blog, Professor Peter J. Marshall places his friend’s work in the context of his...