By IMPRI Team By IMPRI Team #IMPRI Center for Work and Welfare (CWW), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, organized a book discussion on “Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living” – #WebPolicyTalk. Dr Sadan Jha (Associate Professor), Centre for Social Studies, Surat and Prof Pushpendra (Professor), Mumbai Campus, and, Chairperson, Centre for Development Practice and…
A Scandinavian Nabob of the British Empire: The Discovery of a New Colonial Archive Joseph Stephensâ life history forces us to rethink our understanding of Indiaâs railway development, the wider distribution of colonial wealth in the Western world, and the transnational nature of British imperialism. The Huseby Estate, SmÃ¥land. Photo: Wikimedia Commons History02/Jan/2021 It happens once in a while that a significant archive of a colonial businessmen gets discovered in an attic. The caretakers of a manor house â the Huseby Bruk â in the SmÃ¥land region of South Sweden discovered boxes full of papers and objects, lying silently in an upper story dark hall. These were the India papers of Mr Joseph Stephens. Stephens, in India, was a railway contractor of one of the earliest railway companies in the colonies: the Great India Peninsular Railway Company (GIPR).