Global South Asians – serie
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10 produkter
Passages through India
Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
Av Somak Biswas
Inbunden, 2023
1477 kr
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Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics …
Beyond Indenture
Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora
Inbunden, 2024
1693 kr
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Beyond Indenture brings together original essays by a mix of experienced and upcoming scholars. They reflect, as far as possible, the viewpoints and voices of indentured Indians who exercised agency, resisted and manipulated the colonial labour system to their advantage, and went on to build new …
Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora
Origins, Memories, and Identity
Av Ashutosh Kumar, Crispin Bates
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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Many Indians journeyed out of India to supplant the loss of slave labour in the former European plantation colonies of Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and the Caribbean from the early nineteenth century onwards. This book aims to highlight the careers of these migrants who served as vital agents in …
Fleeting Agencies
A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya
Häftad, 2023
499 kr
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Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration, interacted with other migrants and negotiated colonial laws. This is the first study of Indian coolie women …
In the Malay World
A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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Based on various archival and non-archival records, oral testimonies and travel accounts, some of which are used for the first time, this book explores the historical migration of Bengalis and their diasporic experiences in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, covering a period from the mid-nineteenth …
Clash of Color
Dialogues on Race, Caste, and Solidarity in the United States and India
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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The marginalization of Black Americans due to white supremacy and the oppression of Indians under British colonialism featured inescapable similarities. At the turn of the twentieth century, these parallels led Indian and Black nationalists, intellectuals, and activists to share their experiences …
Voices from Calcutta
Indian Indenture in the Age of Abolition
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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Between 1837 and 1920, 1.3 million indentured labourers migrated from India to sugar plantation colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Voices from Calcutta shows how spokesmen from Calcutta - the capital of British India - disrupted this trade and influenced the lives of these migrants. It …
Passages through India
Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
Av Somak Biswas
Häftad, 2025
469 kr
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Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics …
Citizens of Everywhere
Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920-1952
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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Citizens of Everywhere traces the international careers of a cohort of extraordinary Indian women leaders during the final decades of colonial rule. Working in pursuit of the dual goals of Indian independence and women's rights, the women featured in this book established productive transnational …
The Indentured Archipelago
Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871-1916
Inbunden, 2022
1177 kr
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This book focuses on the spatial experiences of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius and Fiji and reveals previously unexplored labour movements across the so-called Indentured Archipelago. It offers a historical geographical perspective of the lives of these labourers in Mauritius and Fiji, …
