Outputs (29)

Pacifying Palestine: Colonial Violence, Space and the British Response to the Great Revolt, 1936-1941 (2024)
Thesis
Freidank, M. W. Pacifying Palestine: Colonial Violence, Space and the British Response to the Great Revolt, 1936-1941. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD thesis contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of colonial violence in the history of the modern Middle East by analysing the campaign that British civil and military authorities launched against the Great Revolt in... Read More about Pacifying Palestine: Colonial Violence, Space and the British Response to the Great Revolt, 1936-1941.

Muslim Education Between Adab and Employability: The Ecoles Franco-Arabes (EFAs) in Burkina Faso (2023)
Thesis
Sawadogo, A. Muslim Education Between Adab and Employability: The Ecoles Franco-Arabes (EFAs) in Burkina Faso. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis investigates the complexities, dilemma and potential of French-Arabic schools in Burkina Faso under the name of Ecoles Franco-Arabes (EFAs) which provide schooling for more than 8% percent of school children nationally. However, on one ha... Read More about Muslim Education Between Adab and Employability: The Ecoles Franco-Arabes (EFAs) in Burkina Faso.

Cultural Propaganda in Informal Empire : The British Council in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, 1939-1971 (2021)
Thesis
Allday, L. Cultural Propaganda in Informal Empire : The British Council in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, 1939-1971. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis examines the British Council’s involvement in Britain’s Informal Empire in the Persian Gulf from 1939 until shortly after 1971, when Britain formally withdrew from the region. It traces the developments that led to the Council establishing... Read More about Cultural Propaganda in Informal Empire : The British Council in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, 1939-1971.

Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay (2020)
Journal Article
Tejani, S. (2021). Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay. Urban History, 48(3), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926820000565

Urban expansion in the early twentieth century had a profound impact on India's urban land economies. Historians argue that in this period, urban India went through an increasing marketization of land and that improvement trusts had a significant han... Read More about Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay.

Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay (2020)
Journal Article
Tejani, S. (2021). Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay. Urban History, 48(3), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926820000565

Urban expansion in the early twentieth century had a profound impact on India's urban land economies. Historians argue that in this period, urban India went through an increasing marketization of land and that improvement trusts had a significant han... Read More about Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay.

Cow Protection, Hindu Identity and the Politics of Hurt in India, c.1890–2019 (2019)
Journal Article
Tejani, S. (2019). Cow Protection, Hindu Identity and the Politics of Hurt in India, c.1890–2019. Emotions (Perth, W.A. Online), 3(1), 136-157. https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522X-02010042

Recent violence in India towards minority Muslim and Dalit communities in response to their alleged killing of cows is shocking in its brutality. Those responsible maintain the cow is sacred to Hindus and a threat to its life is an attack on Hinduism... Read More about Cow Protection, Hindu Identity and the Politics of Hurt in India, c.1890–2019.

Water technocracy : dams, experts and development in south India (2019)
Thesis
Ramesh, A. Water technocracy : dams, experts and development in south India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis excavates the origins of the multipurpose river valley project in colonial India, examining the first large multipurpose project, the Mettur dam on the River Cauvery, finished by Madras government in 1934. While most studies of the multip... Read More about Water technocracy : dams, experts and development in south India.

"To shake hands across the ocean": the political worlds of South Asian seamen, c.1918-1946 (2018)
Thesis
Manjrekar, N. "To shake hands across the ocean": the political worlds of South Asian seamen, c.1918-1946. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Colonialism and state-building in Afghanistan : Anglo-Afghan co-operation in the institutionalisation of ethnic difference, 1869-1900 (2017)
Thesis
Fuoli, F. Colonialism and state-building in Afghanistan : Anglo-Afghan co-operation in the institutionalisation of ethnic difference, 1869-1900. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The uprising in the ‘periphery’ : Bengal 1857-58 (2015)
Thesis
Chatterjee, N. The uprising in the ‘periphery’ : Bengal 1857-58. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London