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In collaboration with the Commonwealth Conflict Graves Fee (CWGC), the College of Greenwich seeks to recruit an excellent researcher to research the commemoration and non-commemoration of Punjabi troopers within the First World Conflict.
The scholarship will analyse the non-commemoration of casualties recruited in colonial Punjab, from the place c. 500,000 males enlisted to serve within the First World Conflict. Scoping analysis means that hundreds of Punjabi casualties could also be lacking from the official document of British and Commonwealth conflict useless. By figuring out these casualties and understanding the causes of their omission, the scholarship will play an necessary function in serving to the CWGC to deal with historic inequalities in commemoration
To do that, the profitable candidate will discover the ‘Punjab Registers’ – a novel assortment of newly digitised archival sources which document the names and repair histories of c. 320,000 Punjabi recruits. The ‘Registers’ present unparalleled insights into the rank and file who volunteered to serve on behalf of the British empire, enabling a way more full account of their service, sacrifice and commemoration to be developed.
Moreover, the scholarship holder will contribute to, and profit from, a significant public engagement undertaking exploring Punjab’s function within the First World Conflict. The scholarship will present helpful alternatives for the profitable candidate to achieve expertise working in each tutorial and heritage sectors on a undertaking of worldwide significance.
The profitable candidate might be supervised by Professor Gavin Rand (UoG) and Dr George Hay (CWGC).
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