Empire of convicts : Indian penal labor in colonial Southeast Asia /

"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 deportations first to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yang, Anand A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Colección:California world history library ; 31.
Temas:
1800-1899
Convict labor > Southeast Asia > 19th century > Case studies.
East Indians > Southeast Asia > 19th century > Case studies.
Penal colonies > Southeast Asia > History > 19th century.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Asie du Sud-Est > 19e siècle > Études de cas.
Colonies pénitentiaires > Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales.
Convict labor
East Indians
Penal colonies
Southeast Asia
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • "Kumpanee ke noukur" : rajas and robbers in Penang, 1790s-1870s
  • "Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath": convict workers and the making of colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s
  • Epilogue. life after life : the afterlives of bandwars in the straits settlements.

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