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SUMMARY:Where Punjab and Aboriginal Australia Meet: Debbie Bargallie
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DESCRIPTION:Punjabi Dreaming: Restoring Kinship\, Defying Erasure\, and R
 eclaiming Home\n\nDebbie Bargallie\, Principal Research Fellow\, Griffit
 h University\n\nWith\n\nAwais Hussain\, Doctoral student\, University of
  York\n\nand\n\nShafiq Ahmed\, Family member\, Bury - Greater Manchester
 \n\nFor many\, genealogy is a personal quest—but for me\, it is an act o
 f historical reclamation and decolonial resistance. Punjabi Dreaming tra
 ces the intertwined legacies of transnational migration\, Indigenous ide
 ntity\, and colonial erasure through the journey of Bagh Ali (Bargallie)
  and his brother\, Rehm Ali (Ramalli)—undocumented migrants from Punjab\
 , formerly India—now Pakistan\, who settled in Australia in the late 19t
 h century. Through oral histories\, archival research\, and genetic anal
 ysis\, this work reconstructs their story as hawkers who forged kinship 
 networks with the Kamilaroi Aboriginal peoples\, navigating the intersec
 ting systems of race and exclusion under the White Australia Policy.\n\n
 Yet this is more than historical excavation—it is an act of reconnection
 . For over a century\, their descendants lost all ties to their homeland
 \, their names fragmented in colonial records. But history calls us back
 . This seminar will explore not only the research behind Punjabi Dreamin
 g but also an unprecedented journey—the first return to the family’s anc
 estral village of Langrial in 128 years. The researcher will examine wha
 t it means to re-establish a long-lost biraderi (brotherhood) and reconn
 ect bloodlines unknowingly linked across continents. How does one reclai
 m kinship after generations of separation? What does it mean to return t
 o a place 128 years after your great-grandfather left\, where memories o
 f him had faded—yet still lingers in stories and historical Mirasi recor
 ds?\n\nThis research is a collaborative exploration of transnational gen
 ealogy\, intertwining Indigenous and diasporic perspectives to challenge
  Eurocentric genealogical frameworks. It examines the fluidity of names 
 and identities\, the resilience of familial ties across continents\, and
  the role of memory in reconstructing histories fragmented by colonial p
 olicies. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s framework of cultural identity as a pr
 ocess of “being” and “becoming\,” this study considers how Bargallie’s d
 escendants negotiate their Indigenous and South Asian heritage\, reclaim
 ing connections to a place that remains central to their identity.\n\nPu
 njabi Dreaming disrupts traditional genealogical research\, offering a d
 ecolonial approach to reclaiming home\, restoring long-severed kinship\,
  and resisting colonial erasure. This seminar will explore the implicati
 ons of transnational genealogy in reimagining historical narratives and 
 reviving lost familial connections across continents\, generations\, and
  imposed borders.\n\nWe will also hear from Chloe Cousins - Manchester M
 useum's Social Justice Manager - about the recent launch of the Decoloni
 se! trail\, as well as poetry by Hassan Baig.\n\nThis event is brought t
 o you by the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) Anti-Racist Educati
 on Network\, in collaboration with Manchester Museum\, and supported by 
 the UCU\, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the School of E
 ducation\, Environment and Development (SEED) EDI team.
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LOCATION:Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Phone: 0161-27526
 48\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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