Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book—a product of decades of research—is especially valuable as a narrative that weaves together the lived experiences of convicts and the larger socio-economic and political order they were coerced to serve." * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *
"Empire of Convicts is an informative and closely reasoned addition to histories of colonial labour and penology and to the burgeoning literature on the Indian Ocean World." * Journal of Development Studies *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 • Across the
Kala Pani: The Global and Local Contexts of Penal Transportation
2 • "Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy Sepoys, and Neas Men": The Bengkulu World of the Khan Brothers, 1797–1825
3 • "Kumpanee ke Noukur": Rajas and Robbers in Penang, 1790–1870s
4 • "Near China beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggernath": Convict Workers and the Making of Colonial Singapore, 1825–1870s
5 • Epilogue—Life after Life: The Afterlives of
Bandwars in the Straits Settlements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
