Kalathmika Natarajan: Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Over the centuries, millions of migrant laborers sailed from the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, to shape what is now the world's largest diaspora. This book recovers the histories and legacies of those "coolie" migrants, and presents a new paradigm for the diplomatic history of independent India, going beyond high politics to explore how indenture, emigration and international relations became entangled.
>Drawing on rich, multi-archival analysis spanning the vast geographies of labor migration, Kalathmika Natarajan pieces together the stories of quarantine camps en route to Ceylon; cultural and educational missions in the Caribbean; discretionary passport policies in India; and the mediation of immigrant life in Britain. The result is a nuanced history from the interwar period to the decades after independence, and a critical analysis centering both caste and the negotiation of "undesirable" mobility as foundational to Indian diplomacy.