tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9939966.post1139197453482806040..comments2024-03-28T14:16:51.745+05:30Comments on Known Turf: Rulers, purposesAnnie Zaidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687223598027157611noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9939966.post-41734554355909121502012-06-22T23:57:29.144+05:302012-06-22T23:57:29.144+05:30I am a labor historian, so I can give you some ans...I am a labor historian, so I can give you some answers to your questions. Re. Dalhousie's highway - it's very hard to determine whether workers were paid or not - there's a lot of debate b/w free/unfree labor in Indian history. Most likely they were paid. I find it hard to believe that Dalhousie wanted the road built out of compassion for unpaid labor tho. That'd be highly out of Aniruddha Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05690998269850136056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9939966.post-26576195751046305372012-06-18T14:08:29.392+05:302012-06-18T14:08:29.392+05:30While I agree with most of what you wrote, "W...While I agree with most of what you wrote, "What was built during the day was demolished at night" disturbs me. There is a story about the Nazi concentration camps I've heard wherein the captives were asked to dig a square pit of a particular dimension and as soon as it was dug up, they were asked to fill it back up with the earth. I hear they called it the soul killing exercise antiglam superstar!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12924168309151827834noreply@blogger.com