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“Despite finding themselves in novel and precarious situations, many prisoners exercised considerable agency and resisted colonial authorities, in some cases even becoming their own ‘warders.'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In\u00a0\u201cEmpire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(University of California Press, January 2021) Jackson School and History Professor\u00a0Anand Yang<\/a>, former chair of the department of history and a former director of the Jackson School,\u00a0delves into the stories of male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia.<\/p>\n

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Anand Yang<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As Yang observes, “Despite finding themselves in novel and precarious situations, many prisoners exercised considerable agency and resisted colonial authorities, in some cases even becoming their own ‘warders.'” Read more in Yang’s\u00a0blog post about \u201cEmpire of Convicts.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The book is part of the California World History Library Series,<\/a> University of California Press. Yang is also the author of \u201cThe Limited Raj\u201d and \u201cBazaar India.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Despite finding themselves in novel and precarious situations, many prisoners exercised considerable agency and resisted colonial authorities, in some cases even becoming their own ‘warders.’” In\u00a0\u201cEmpire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia\u201d\u00a0(University of California Press, January 2021) Jackson School and History Professor\u00a0Anand Yang, former chair of the department of history and a<\/p>\n

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