Master / Licentiates / Dissertations

Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2024/2025

"Orphan" Rescue Missions: Childhood, Colonialism and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1860s-​1920s

AutorIn Name
Soni
Soni
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Harald
Fischer-Tiné
Institution
ETH Zürich, Institut für Geschichte, Lehrstuhl Geschichte der modernen Welt
Place
Zürich
Year
2019/2020
Abstract
My Ph.D. proposal tentatively titled, “Child ‘Rescue Mission’: The Case of Orphans in Colonial North India; 1860-1947”, proposes to assess the apparent ‘humanistic’ ‘rescue more...