探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge has created what is believed to be the first ever visiting fellowship into the study of indentureship, the controversial system that replaced slavery in the British Empire.
探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge has created what is believed to be the first ever visiting fellowship into the study of indentureship, the controversial system that replaced slavery in the British Empire.
Selwyn College has appointed Professor Gaiutra Bahadur as the Ramesh and Leela Narain visiting bye-fellow in Indentureship Studies. Professor Bahadur is the author of , which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. It is a major study of the lives of Indian women who became indentured labourers to colonial plantations in the nineteenth century.
Selwyn College and the - whose director is novelist, poet and academic Professor David Dabydeen - collaborated closely in setting up the programme which allows a scholar to spend eight weeks at the 探花直播, conducting research. 探花直播programme will run for an initial five years.
探花直播study of indentureship and its legacies was one of the recommendations made in the report of the Legacies of Enslavement at Cambridge Advisory Group, and it is hoped that enough funding will eventually be raised to establish a permanent Professorship in the subject, based at the 探花直播.
Professor Bahadur, who works at Rutgers 探花直播鈥揘ewark, said: 鈥淚 am honoured and delighted to be the inaugural visiting bye-fellow in indentureship studies.
鈥淲hen I first began doing research in this area, the funding just wasn鈥檛 there, so it was in many ways a labour of love. That鈥檚 why I鈥檓 so happy to see there鈥檚 now visibility and funding like this to help future researchers.鈥
Professor Dabydeen said: 鈥 探花直播study and documentation of indentureship is undoubtedly valuable, but it has barely been included in the history syllabi of British and European Universities 鈥 a staggering omission considering the millions of individuals, and indeed entire cultures, irrevocably shaped by indentureship and its legacies.
鈥淭hat is why this fellowship, and hopefully eventually establishing a Professorship, is so important. Cambridge has created an academic subject, bringing it from the margins to the very centre. I am immensely grateful to the Gafoor family in Guyana for helping to make all this possible.鈥
Professor Bahadur will give a public talk and Q&A on the writing of Coolie Woman on Thursday, 27 July, at Selwyn College. Her presentation will include a reading from her book and a topical conversation about her research experiences with the Master of Selwyn College, Roger Mosey. Details are on the . 探花直播event will be live-streamed on .
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