Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Plates and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Flickering Light, Fluttering Textiles -- An Interruption: Derridean Temporality at the Festival -- 2. Material Transformations: Clay, Terracotta, Trash -- 3. Time, Interrupted: P…
"Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by depor…
Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deport…
Across the Kala Pani : the global and local contexts of penal transportation -- "Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy sepoys, and Neas men": The Bengkulu world of the Khan brothers, 1797-1825 -- "Kumpanee ke noukur" : rajas and robbers in Penang, 1790s-1870s -- "Near China beyond the seas …
"Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by depor…
"Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by depor…