Faculty of History

Continuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet's Chile

Florez, Joseph (Creighton University, 2017-07-03)

This paper explores the penetration of Pentecostalism’s discursive emphasis on rupture and discontinuity into the everyday lives of believers in authoritarian Chile. I argue that Pentecostal memories of the dictatorship ...
Secularization and ‘constitutive moments’: insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia

Chatterji, Joya

This essay proposes an argument – on the face of it, both outlandish and paradoxical – that the violent upheavals of partition, which divided British India along religious lines, encouraged trends towards secularization ...
Princes, subjects and Gandhi: Alternatives to Citizenship at the end of empire

Chatterji, Joya (Routledge, 2017-12-14)

This essay harks back to the period when Bal Ram Nanda, an outstanding student at Lahore University and subsequently a government servant in the Railways, began to write history. Nanda’s first and least known work, published ...
Correcting the probate inventory record for wealth bias

Keibek, Sebastiaan (University of Cambridge, 2017-03)

Wealthy, capital-intensive estates are severely overrepresented in historical collections of probate inventories. This paper discusses a new methodology to neutralise the wealth bias in this important historical data source, ...