South Asian Migrations in Global History

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 *