Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak, eds., Kala Pani Crossings. Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
The first volume of the Kala Pani Crossings intends to fill a lack of scholarly research about indenture in Indian studies, which all the contributors acknowledge. “Indenture somehow always slips through the cracks” (34), as Nandini Dhar remarks. Yet “Kala Pani,” which means “black waters” in Hindi...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The first volume of the Kala Pani Crossings intends to fill a lack of scholarly research about indenture in Indian studies, which all the contributors acknowledge. “Indenture somehow always slips through the cracks” (34), as Nandini Dhar remarks. Yet “Kala Pani,” which means “black waters” in Hindi, describes an event of far greater consequences than the Indian population seems to be aware of. As the editors remind us in the introduction, indentured emigration out of India towards Fiji, Maur... |
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