Saheli Chatterjee
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Saheli Chatterjee is a doctoral student at the Department of International History and Politics. Broadly, her research interests include cultural maritime histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, borderlands in South and Southeast Asia, mobilities, spatial history, memory studies and oral history methodologies. Her thesis narrates the repatriation of the Indian minority from Burma to India during the 1960s-80s and posits repatriation as a particular form of 20th century population displacement in South Asian historiography. Saheli completed her Masters at the department in 2021 and holds a BA in History from Delhi University.
Research interests
- Cultural histories of the Indian Ocean
- Partition
- Mobilities
- Memory and theorising "space"
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Countries:
Switzerland
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Subjects:
History, Political Studies