Caste System, Dalit identity, Partition refugees, Urban Spaces, Social Mobility, Subaltern History and Anthropology

Delhi, India, Pakistan, South Asia

Minee Pratiksha is a SNSF Doc.CH PhD Scholar at the chair of Prof. Dr. Johannes Quack, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich. She has completed her bachelor’s in history from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. Thereafter, she did her master’s in modern history from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In her doctoral project, she conducts interdisciplinary research that integrates History and Ethnography. Her work focuses on tracing the life trajectories of Dalit refugees who migrated from Pakistan to India after 1947.

Spatial Injustice and Memory: Dalit Refugees' resettlement in Post-1947 Delhi