{"id":15030,"date":"2021-03-10T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/?page_id=15030"},"modified":"2021-03-31T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:12:12","slug":"book-talk-anand-yang-empire-of-convicts-indian-penal-labor-in-colonial-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/book-talk-anand-yang-empire-of-convicts-indian-penal-labor-in-colonial-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk | Anand Yang, &#8220;Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9486 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/03\/anand-yang-300x300-1456160352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/03\/anand-yang-300x300-1456160352.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/03\/anand-yang-300x300-1456160352-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/03\/anand-yang-300x300-1456160352-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>Book Talk with Dr. Anand <span class=\"il\">Yang<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Thursday, April 1, 2021<br \/>\n3:30-5:00pm PST via Zoom<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Free and open to the public<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Zoom join info:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/washington.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5510741b64aea651b9d012264&amp;id=26fe201f6d&amp;e=b22a3ad27c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/empire-of-convicts<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Join us as JSIS professor <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/people\/anand-yang\/\">Anand\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Yang<\/span> <\/a>speaks about his new book, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/washington.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5510741b64aea651b9d012264&amp;id=e69e7d78f6&amp;e=b22a3ad27c\">Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia<\/a><\/strong>, followed by a Q&amp;A session. Sunila S. Kale, Director of the South Asia Center and Associate Professor of International Studies, will host.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14609 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/image-18-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/image-18-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/image-18.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Empire of Convicts\u00a0focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor.<\/p>\n<p>A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World,\u00a0Empire of Convicts\u00a0narrates the experiences of Indian\u00a0bandwars\u00a0(convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming \u201ctheir own warders.\u201d Anand\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Yang<\/span> brings long journeys across\u00a0kala pani\u00a0(black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Empire of Convicts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/16\/uw-books-in-brief-historian-anand-yang-explores-british-penal-transportation-world-music-textbooks-by-patricia-shehan-campbell\/\">as featured by UW News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/events\/?trumbaEmbed=eventid%3D150936429%26seotitle%3DBOOK-TALK-Anand-Yang-Empire-of-Convicts-Indian-Penal-Labor-in-Colonial-Southeast-Asia%26view%3Devent%26-childview%3D\"> here<\/a> for more details, including full Zoom information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Talk with Dr. Anand Yang Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:30-5:00pm PST via Zoom Free and open to the public Zoom join info:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/empire-of-convicts Join us as JSIS professor Anand\u00a0Yang speaks about his new book, Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia, followed by a Q&amp;A session. Sunila S. Kale, Director of the<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/book-talk-anand-yang-empire-of-convicts-indian-penal-labor-in-colonial-southeast-asia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":15048,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15030","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Book Talk | Anand Yang, &quot;Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia&quot; - Center for Global Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/book-talk-anand-yang-empire-of-convicts-indian-penal-labor-in-colonial-southeast-asia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Talk | Anand Yang, &quot;Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia&quot; - Center for Global Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Book Talk with Dr. Anand Yang Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:30-5:00pm PST via Zoom Free and open to the public Zoom join info:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/empire-of-convicts Join us as JSIS professor Anand\u00a0Yang speaks about his new book, Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia, followed by a Q&amp;A session. 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