Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword, Victor V. Ramraj Prologue: Archives, Paper Regimes, and Mobility, Uma Dhupelia-Meshtrie Introduction, Neilesh Bose Part 1: Impacts of Indentured Labor 1. Gokhale, Polak, and the end of Indian indenture in South Africa, 1860 – 1911, Goolam Vahed 2. Imperial Labor: Labor, Security, and the Depoliticization of Oil Production in the Arabian Peninsula, Andrea Wright 3. Legal Discourse on ‘Coolies’ Migration from India to the Sugar Colonies, 1837-1922, Ashutosh Kumar Part II: Law in Migration Histories 4. Slavery, Abolitionism, Indentured Labor: the Problem of Exit and the Border Between Land and Sea in Colonial India, Riyad Koya 5. Who is Asiatic? Drawing the Boundary in the Legal and Political Framing of Indian South Africans, 1860-1960, Marina Martin Part III: Historical Biography 6. Taraknath Das: A Global Biography, Neilesh Bose 7. Beyond the Reach of Empire: Pandurang Khankhoje´s Transit from British Colonial Subject to Mexican 'Naturalizado' (1924-1954), Daniel Kent-Carrasco 8. A Woman of Peace and Calm: the Story of Senthamani Govender, Devarakshanam Govinden Epilogue: Oceanic Currents and Wayward Crossings, Renisa Mawani

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This collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization.

About the Author

Neilesh Bose is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in global and comparative history at University of Victoria, Canada. A historian of modern South Asia his interests include colonialism and decolonization, post-colonial history, nationalism, literary history, intellectual history.

Reviews

This important collection breaks new ground in global history, offering an array of case studies that chart subcontinental migrations within and and beyond the rubric of empire. Together, these essays demonstrate the agency of South Asians as their mobility highlights processes of the formation of the modern nation state, even as they seek to transgress the arbitrariness of its borders, identities and legal manoeuvres.
*Kama Maclean, Professor of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.*

This wide-ranging collection of essays is full of surprises and of unexpected vignettes that illuminate broader historical patterns. The attention to individuals, social structures, and state policies brings into sharp focus the legacies of South Asian histories of mobility and dispossession. The valuable contribution of the volume is to stake an important place for South Asian migrations in the very making of the modern world.
*Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan, USA*

South Asian Migrations is an ambitious, original and insightful collection of essays that incorporates large scale migrations, state regulations and individual lives, giving students, teachers and researchers of migration, indenture, legal history and global biography much to reflect upon and as such is a welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarship on the history of South Asian migration.
*H-Soz-Kult*