Pritam Singh

I completed my MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge as a Commonwealth Master’s Scholar. My MPhil thesis on anti-caste Movements in Colonial Punjab was awarded distinction and C.A. Bayly Prize for the best dissertation on South Asia. After completing my MPhil, I worked as an Academic Tutor at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat where I co-taught undergraduate courses on Modern Indian Politics, Political Philosophy, and the history of caste in modern India.

Thesis Title: Caste, Race and Empire: Tracing the Roots of Indian Traders' Hegemony Over Lower-Caste Labourers in South Africa C. 1860-1994.

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis

Expertise

Caste, India, British Colonialism, Migration, South Africa

Pritam Singh published new article, 'Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c.1860–1911'

Pritam has published his article in the Oxford Academic journal Past & Present. It talks about the history of caste and Indentured Indian sanitary workers.

Read the article HERE