CRIS Scientific Seminar 2023-2024

Friday, June 14th 2024, 11:30 am
Sciences Po, Room K008 (1, St-Thomas-d'Aquin)

A Silver Handle of Wishes: Social and Spatial Stratification in Early Colonial Bombay

Sukriti Issar

Associate Professor
Sciences Po - CRIS

In this talk I will discuss work-in-progress on enumeration, occupations and stratification, and segregation in early colonial Bombay. What were the categories used for enumerating populations? What can we say about spatial segregation in this period? Was there a middling ‘sort’? Using previously unexplored archival data (qualitative and quantitative) I analyse segregation, and use new data to classify occupational structure and consumption practices in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The talk will reflect on methods of history writing and archival research.

Sukriti Issar is Associate Professor in CRIS (Center for Research on Social Inequalities) at Sciences Po, Paris. She is the scientific advisor of the Governing the Large Metropolis master's program at the Urban School. Her research interests focus on urban policy, regulations, property and law, and social history. To find out more about Sukriti Issar

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