Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia Volume 31
(Part of the California World History Library Series)
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Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offences committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by people deported first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520294564
ISBN13:9780520294561
Release Date:January 2021
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:292 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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