My latest piece in @echistsoc.bsky.social’s The Long Run Blog explores a simple but unsettling question: how can government policy be officially race-neutral, yet still produce racialised outcomes?
Read it here:
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Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Subsidising Whiteness: British Shipping and Racialised Politics after the Great Depression'.
Shagnick Bhattacharya (Independent Scholar) presents their research, which was supported by the 2026 Joint BME Small Research Grant.
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How did the caste system function aboard ships in the twentieth century?
Shagnick Bhattacharya explores the history of lascars.
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As seamen criss-crossed the oceans in British ships in the Interwar period, Shagnick Bhattacharya @uniofexeternews.bsky.social discusses 2 examples of subaltern 'smugglers' & the problem confronting the Imperial Government.
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Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars
