"This collection explores how migrations across South Asia have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. With original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law as a site of...

Historical background of Indians Kenya -- Asian penetration, land politics, and the genesis of Asian sugarcane agriculture -- Asian sugarcane farming in colonial Nyanza -- Transportation of sugarcane, production and marketing of sugar in colonial Nyanza -- Labor in the Nyanza sugar industry --...