by Yamini Krishna | Jul 1, 2022 | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan
Search for the past: Stories from the dusty archives of the Deccan As I sifted through some administrative reports of the Asaf Jahi state at the Telangana State Archives in Hyderabad, the archivist/official, a very patient man, sat there trying to match the details...
by Swathi Shivanand | Jul 1, 2022 | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan
What the Hyderabad-Deccan region teaches us about belonging During fieldwork for my PhD on Hyderabad-Karnataka in the year 2017, I was interviewing women migrants from the region living in Bengaluru and working as construction labour, about their experience of...