Earlier versions of this paper were presented in the Rama Watumull Lecture Series at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (March 2011) and at the Law and Society Annual Meetings in San Francisco (May 2011). I would like to thank the respective audiences for their comments and questions, especially Gaye Chan, Nandita Sharma, Kunal Parker, and Mariana Valverde. My deepest gratitude goes to Bonar Buffam, Antoinette Burton, Sherry Dilley, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Bruce Miller, Pooja Parmar, Chris Tomlins, and three anonymous reviewers for their astute suggestions at various stages and for pushing me to sharpen the ideas presented here. Additional thanks are due to Antoinette Burton for generously sharing with me her forthcoming work on India and Africa, Zarina Mawani for checking Gujarati translations, Mitra Sharafi for bringing the Hindi Punch image to my attention and for her ongoing generosity, and Sanjeev Routray and Natasia Wright for their invaluable research assistance. The research from which this article draws was generously supported by a Hampton Endowment Grant from the University of British Columbia (2007–2009) and a Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for Canada (2009–2013). Please address correspondence to Renisa Mawani, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1; e-mail: renisa@mail.ubc.ca.
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Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914
Article first published online: 21 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00492.x
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Mawani, R. (2012), Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914. Law & Society Review, 46: 369–403. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00492.x
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- Article first published online: 21 MAY 2012
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