Radhika Mongia

Indian Migration and Empire

A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State

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Produktbeschreibung

Radhika Mongia outlines the colonial genealogy of the modern nation-state by tracing how the British Empire monopolized control over migration, showing how between its abolition of slavery in 1834 and World War One, the regulation of Indians moving throughout the Commonwealth linked migration with nationality and state sovereignty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371021
• ISBN-10: 0822371022
• Artikelnr.: 50210266

Autorenporträt

Radhika Mongia

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Migration of "Free" Labor: Contracting Freedom  22
2. Disciplinary Power and the Colonial State: The Bureaucracy of Migration
Control  56
3. Gendered Nationalism, the Racialized State, and the Making of Migration
Law: The Indian "Marriage Question" in South Africa  85
4. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport  112
Epilogue. In History: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State  141
Notes  151
Bibliography  199
Index  221