Conceptualizing Work/Employment in India

This paper examines chakri as a distinct category of work in colonial Bengal. It traces the emergence of chakri in Bengal’s encounters with colonialism, and the subsequent association of the category with ”English education” and the bhadralok (literally, ”respec- table ones”). Chakri was and...

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Main Author: Tuhina Ganguly
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2013-04-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
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Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3736

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