Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Julia StephensSeries:Histories of Economic LifePublish date:12/16/2025Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691205458ISBN-10:691205450UPC:9780691205458Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, Europe, Social HistoryBook Topic:South, Great BritainSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCVJQJGSHA
Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations
Indian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world's population and territory. In the mid-1800s, the British government began building an elaborate bureaucracy to govern its mobile subjects, issuing photo IDs, lists of kin, and wills. It amassed...Series: Histories of Economic Life
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691205458ISBN-10:691205450UPC:9780691205458Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, Europe, Social HistoryBook Topic:South, Great BritainSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCVJQJGSHA
Julia Stephens is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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