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Punjab's History with Maps

Punjab's boundaries and demographics have undergone deep transformations over colonial and post-colonial period in India. This twitter thread project is a very useful archive to track them.

Enforced Disappearences

"The Crimes Against Humanity Data Project is a portrait of widespread and systematic enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, based on data collected through primary source interviews.

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Frontier Urbanism

References:

  • Historian Giorgio Miescher defines frontier as a “border zone, the precise location and dimensions of which are in constant flux” (Namibia’s Red Line, 2012, p. 8)

Anti-Caste Futures

Beyond narratives of victimisation: As I type this (June 4, 2024) the Indian elections results unfold and it is evident that the Dalit and rural vote flipped the exit-polls results which had p

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ANTI-CASTE FUTURES

Beyond narratives of victimisation: As I type this (June 4, 2024) the Indian elections results unfold and it is evident that the Dalit and rural vote flipped the exit-polls results which had predic

DRAMAS OF DIVERSITY

“Dramas of Diversity” is an interactive dramaturgical workshop crafted by the Ambedkar Reading Circle (ARC) Bangalore.

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Landlessness

A still from Randeep Maddoke’s ‘Landless,’ a documentary about caste and landlessness in Punjab depicting a farming scene with Dalit farm laborers.  

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Local Cartographies

Lattha or Shujara: A map on cloth from the revenue office depicting a district of Punjab which is used on the field for verification.

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