Jamia Millia Islamia, the Delhi-based Central University, marked the centenary of its foundation in 2020. The university was founded in 1920 during the freedom movement of India following the call of Mahatma Gandhi’s Swadeshi and the Non-Cooperation movements symbolising and…
Modern slavery is an umbrella word that covers forced labour, human trafficking, debt bondage/bonded labour, descent-based slavery, slavery of children, forced marriage, early marriage, domestic slavery, and slavery in the supply chain (Anti-Slavery International 2022). People end up trapped in…
Madhwi, Health, Medicine and Migration: The Formation of Indentured Labour, c. 1834–1920, Primus Books: New Delhi, 2020, xii+383 pages, Rs 1395. Michel Foucault in his path-breaking work The Birth of the Clinic (1973) delineates two significant developments in the field…