Camille Buat

My PhD project explores patterns of labour mobility linking up the Northern Indian regions of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, on the one hand, to Eastern India (Bengal and Assam) from the second half of the 19th century to the present. Building on life and family histories, it follows these mobile trajectories through time, as they straddled geographical and occupational mobility, in a constant back and forth between their "home" in Eastern UP (Ghazipur, Ballia, Buxar), Bengal (Howrah, Durgapur, Asansol, Titagarh) and Assam (Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, ...).

I am completing my PhD at CeMIS and the Center of History, Sciences Po, Paris, France. Prior to the PhD, I completed a masters in History from Sciences Po entitled Communalism and Militancy: Indian Jute Labour in the 1930s: a Segmented Labour Force.

Last Publication

• Buat, Camille. 2018. "L’Inde coloniale en mouvement. Les régimes circulatoires des classes laborieuses en Asie du sud au XIXe siècle." La Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, October.

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