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OverviewEmpire 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 deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor. A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World, Empire of Convicts narrates the experiences of Indian bandwars (convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming “their own warders.” Anand A. Yang brings long journeys across kala pani (black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anand A. YangPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 31 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520294561ISBN 10: 0520294564 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 19 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Across the Kala Pani: The Global and Local Contexts of Penal Transportation 2 • ""Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy Sepoys, and Neas Men"": The Bengkulu World of the Khan Brothers, 1797–1825 3 • ""Kumpanee ke Noukur"": Rajas and Robbers in Penang, 1790–1870s 4 • ""Near China beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggernath"": Convict Workers and the Making of Colonial Singapore, 1825–1870s 5 • Epilogue—Life after Life: The Afterlives of Bandwars in the Straits Settlements Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews"""The book—a product of decades of research—is especially valuable as a narrative that weaves together the lived experiences of convicts and the larger socio-economic and political order they were coerced to serve."" * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia * ""Empire of Convicts is an informative and closely reasoned addition to histories of colonial labour and penology and to the burgeoning literature on the Indian Ocean World."" * Journal of Development Studies *" The book-a product of decades of research-is especially valuable as a narrative that weaves together the lived experiences of convicts and the larger socio-economic and political order they were coerced to serve. * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia * Author InformationAnand A. Yang is the Walker Family Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and the author of The Limited Raj and Bazaar India. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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