Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia Volume 31

by Anand A. Yang

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"