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Margit Szermer
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The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, first published in 2016, is a comprehensive and fascinating recounting of the discovery of the gene and genetics research from wrinkled peas to CRISPR/Cas9 and all the details in between. In Mukherjee's sweeping history, the science is clearly depicted but also tightly integrated into the political movements and world events that it spawned, both hopeful and detestable. Two stories from The Gene are the central focuses of this article. One story is driven by the desire of Eugenicists in early 20th century America to rid the population of defective traits. The second is driven by the late 20th century promise of gene therapy to rid individuals of fatal inherited diseases. Both stories are tragic and serve as cautionary tales. These and other "case studies" in the role of science in society moved this reader to ask: what level of ethical and professional training is appropriate for today's emerging scientists? In this article, the intent and the limitations of mandated Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training for science and engineering graduate students are reviewed and explicated, and the obligations of scientists to themselves and others are discussed. Extrapolating from the stories in the book to the types of events and conflicts that may arise to challenge practicing scientists, a few constructive recommendations are offered for an expansion of the traditional RCR syllabus.
My research focuses on the transnational mobility of South Asians in the imperial era (nineteenth and twentieth century) i.e. the movement of men, women and children from the Indian subcontinent to other parts of the world, and also their return back to India. Much of my attention has been on how travel and the colonial encounter for migrants in Britain has had an effect on social and political identities including race, class, gender and religion.
My first book, Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned, published in 2009, discussed the politicisation of Indian students at British universities in the early twentieth century and the impact their return to India had on the nationalist movement.
My second book, Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks, was published with Oxford University Press in 2018. Funded by an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship, it looked at the activities of Indian campaigners for the female vote around the world, and how this had an impact on campaigns in the Indian subcontinent in the first half of the twentieth century.
I have written widely on the networks and reception to South Asian migrants in Britain, or on women's rights in the Indian subcontinent. My current research is centred around the global migration and mobility of Indian children in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I am also currently working on two Arts and Humanities Research Council funded projects: 'Mariners: Religion, Race and Empire in British Ports, 1801-1914' (AH/W009803/1) and 'Remaking Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1830s to the present' (AH/X001520/1).
I have extensive public engagement and impact experience. This includes interviews on radio and television, curation and advice on exhibitions relating to South Asian contributions to British life, and talks, podcasts and learning resources for school children relating to migration histories. I was one of the designers and editors of an online database on South Asians in Britain (which we are currently updating to relaunch in 2025). I have been involved in numerous public events and policy work relating to my research on migration and on Indian 'suffragettes', especially during the 2018 centenary of the partial award of votes to women in Britain. More details on some of my interviews and blogs I have written can be found on my personal website.
Before coming to Bristol in 2016, I had taught at six other UK universities (Cambridge, De Montfort, Glasgow, King's College London, London School of Economics and Oxford). I have served as external examiner for BA and MA programmes at three other UK universities. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In 2018-19 I was one of the course directors on the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities, a pre-degree programme which values personal experience and potential over A-Levels. I teach on courses at all levels (undergraduate and postgraduate) relating to the history of Britain, the British Empire, the Indian subcontinent, and social, gender and public history more broadly.
I have supervised PhD students at the University of Glasgow and the University of Bristol. I would be happy to supervise and advise students interested in doing PhDs in areas relating to nineteenth and twentieth century South Asia and the British Empire, Indian indenture, or Black and Asian British History, with particular reference to migration, gender, representation, nationalism or identity. Please do get in touch to discuss ideas.
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Pablo Mukherjee's teaching grows out of his research interests. He has taught and lectured undergraduate and post-graduate courses on Victorian and modern crime fiction, contemporary science fiction, world literatures, travel-writing, post-colonial South Asian and African literatures, critical theory, and environmental humanities. He is an experienced supervisor and mentor, and has worked with doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars on a very wide range of topics - from contemporary Afghan and Iraqi war literature to Victorian railway writing (and most things in between).
Pablo Mukherjee has held a number of awards over his academic career - Rhodes Scholarship (1996-1999), Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award (1999-2001), British Academy Research Grant (2002), two AHRC research awards (2008 and 2011) and (as Co-I) a Leverhulme International Research Network Funding. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022 ( -pablo-mukherjee-fba/), and is also member of European Association of Comparative Literature and Language Studies, British Association of Victorian Studies and Modern Language Association. He is co-editor (with Sharae Deckard) of the book series, New Comparisons in World Literature ( ) and is on the editorial board of a number of journals and academic presses.
Kalhana, a Kashmiri historian in Rajatarangini (1148-50 AD), has written that the historian "alone is worthy of praise whose word, like that of a judge, keeps free from love and hatred in relating the facts of the past."[1] Barendse largely succeeds in this effort. Any reader would broadly agree with his perspectives on the various issues, even though one might differ with some of his opinions. The book is an unbiased work of high scholarship.
The book is a very interesting work. It deals with the Arabian sea rim region in the seventeenth century. But it is not just a coastal history, it is not just a history of the various East India companies, nor it is just a history of trade. It contains all these--and something more. It reflects the evolving pattern of interaction among the various historical forces of that time. The Arabian sea has been used as a medium of expression. The work attempts to put into perspective the nature of the trading system, the institutions and the organisations involved, and the nature of politics and its influence on trade. In the introduction, the author asserts, "this study is an extended brief for 'globalism', for in exploring and focusing on linkages within and beyond the Arabian seas, it tries to overcome the limits of the area studies approach" (p. 4).
The book also contains interesting case studies and the necessary maps. The author restricts himself to the time limit of the seventeenth century. More than three-fourths of the book deals with India and, taking a guesstimate, 85 percent of the book is factual and only in the remaining 15 percent does the author express his opinion. As the facts and the manner of presentation (perspective) of those facts are undisputable, this review will deal mostly with that remaining 15 percent.
In chapter 2, "Ports and the Hinterland," we get a very interesting snapshot of trading centres in Mozambique, Madagascar, Yemen, the Gulf region, Gujarat, Konkan and the Kerala. According to the author, "at sea no single state, like the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, controlled the ocean" (p. 15); he also says, "we should perceive the Arabian seas as an 'archipelago of towns'" (p. 5). Consequently the format he adopts for the purpose of his descriptions in this chapter is to take into account the various port towns from East Africa to the Middle East and the western coast of India. Here at one point he asserts, "port cities were major killers of their population ... they constantly had to be fed by new immigrants from across seven seas..." (p. 18). Though no data in terms of population census is available from that time, other authors who have researched in this area point to the effects of an expanding economy on population increase. Thus the indigenous flow of population to these centres cannot be discounted.
Chapter 3, "European Natios in the Arabian Seas," is rather a prelude to chapters 7, 8 and 9. Here he says that on the Arabian seas there was a "coexistence of various incompatible systems of law, or legal pluralism was common" (p. 87). He uses the concept of "natio" to explain the nature of the trading companies, which he finds more comprehensive than terms like "trade diaspora." A subsection also deals with women and their interaction with the European traders in varied circumstances; for example, on one end it meant availability of grooms to girls of poor families in Portugal, on the other for the Dutch, Indian spouses provided not only means of acculturation but also important trade contact. And on the other extreme settlements provided outlets for gambling, drinking, and fornication. The issue of racism has also been dealt with--"though they might be married to Indian women, there was racism by poor whites too" (p. 101). The subsections "Soldiers of Fortune" and "European Freebooters in Asia" complement each other particularly well, showing different sides of the European adventurers in Asia.
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