In my previous post, I spoke about following oral histories and material traces of the war. While I was able to find Ledo Road easily, the hospital on the other hand proved a challenge. Was the hospital still standing or much like most monuments in India converted into something else? They are rarely stagnant. Spaces […]
“One good thing that came out of the war was that the Americans built this road”, quipped Mr. Borah who had taken out a few minutes from his day to talk to me about his experiences in Margherita back in the ’40s. In my bid to study the oral histories and material traces of the […]
Hi everyone! My name is Ngamlienlal Kipgen, and I am a rising 4th year PhD student in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. As I began my CASI-funded summer project, I was reminded of what kinds of circumstances led me halfway across the world to a remote town in Assam, India. It […]
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