Convicts in the Indian Ocean
Convicts in the Indian Ocean

Author: C. Anderson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-01-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0230596541

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When the British took control of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius soon after the abolition of the slave trade, they were faced with a labour-hungry and potentially hostile Franco-Mauritian plantocracy. This book explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work building the infrastructure necessary to fuel the expansion of the sugar industry. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, it is shown how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric.

Convicts in the Indian Ocean
Convicts in the Indian Ocean

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780312227890

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"This book explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work building the infrastructure necessary to fuel the expansion of the sugar industry. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, the book examines the origins of the convicts and their organization as forced labourers. It also shows how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Empire of Convicts
Empire of Convicts

Author: Anand A. Yang

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0520967593

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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 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.

Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants
Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

Author: A. Stanziani

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 113744844X

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Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.

A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History

Author: Edward A. Alpers

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2024-04-05

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 147805929X

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A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History is a guide for college and high school educators who are teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time or who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi as well as those who want to incorporate Indian Ocean histories into their world history courses. Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow offer course design principles that will help students navigate topics ranging from empire, geography, slavery, and trade to mobility, disease, and the environment. In addition to exploring non-European sources and diverse historical methodologies, they discuss classroom pedagogy and provide curriculum possibilities that will help instructors at any level enrich and deepen standard approaches to world history. Alpers and McDow draw readers into strategically designing courses that will challenge students to think critically about a vast area with which many of them are almost entirely unfamiliar.

Subaltern Lives
Subaltern Lives

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 110701509X

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This fascinating book uses biographical fragments to shed new light on colonial life and convictism in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean.

The Indian Uprising of 1857-8
The Indian Uprising of 1857-8

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1843312956

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An in-depth study of the 1857 Indian mutiny-rebellion, exploring the political and social themes of this remarkable phenomenon.

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Author: Gwyn Campbell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317320085

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This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.

A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 135000068X

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Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies builds on specific regional archives and literatures to write the first global history of penal transportation. The essays explore the idea of penal transportation as an engine of global change, in which political repression and forced labour combined to produce long-term impacts on economy, society and identity. They investigate the varied and interconnected routes convicts took to penal sites across the world, and the relationship of these convict flows to other forms of punishment, unfree labour, military service and indigenous incarceration. They also explore the lived worlds of convicts, including work, culture, religion and intimacy, and convict experience and agency.