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Book Title
Boats in a Storm
Title
Boats in a Storm
Subtitle
Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1
ISBN-10
1503636097
EAN
9781503636095
ISBN
9781503636095
Genre
History
Subject
Social Sciences
Release Year
2023
Release Date
08/22/2023
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Publication Name
Boats in a Storm : Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Publication Year
2023
Series
South Asia in Motion Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6in
Author
Kalyani Ramnath
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Number of Pages
308 Pages

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For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. These accounts unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
1503636097
ISBN-13
9781503636095
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26057270134

Product Key Features

Author
Kalyani Ramnath
Publication Name
Boats in a Storm : Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Series
South Asia in Motion Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
308 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Knc565.R36 2023
Reviews
"Ramnath offers a rich rethinking of the seismic shifts in governance and citizenship that accompanied war and decolonization in South and Southeast Asia. She shifts our gaze from official narratives, written from the perspective of politicians and diplomats, to the experience of the everyday subjects who had for generations made the interconnected shores of the Bay of Bengal their homes. A marvel of archival research and storytelling, Ramnath breathes life into dusty, crumbling records of legal disputes to reconstruct deeply moving tales of human separation and suffering, but also resilience and bravery."--Julia Stephens, Rutgers University, "Kalyani Ramnath's Boats in a Storm contributes to the ever-growing body of literature using legal archives to help reconstruct a supernational history of the Indian Ocean World. And she does so in a refreshing, impressive, and layered way.... The encounters she unearths mostly relate to everyday dealings like income tax, debts, loans, or transmitting (or inheriting) money to (or from) family abroad. However, when connecting them, Ramnath reveals all sorts of political, social, and cultural implications when it comes to matters like citizenship, business, migration, family life, and community-formation in a changing, post-colonial South and Southeast Asia."--Luc Bulten, Polity Magazine, " Boats in a Storm is a magnificent contribution to the history of law and displacement in the Indian Ocean. Using a rich legal archive, Kalyani Ramnath shows us the history of decolonization in a new light through this astonishingly detailed picture of the loss suffered by migrants who found their itineraries interrupted by new borders and new jurisdictions. This is a spectacularly accomplished and insightful book!"--Sunil Amrith, Yale University, "In her beautifully written book Boats in a Storm , Kalyani Ramnath scrutinises a plethora of archived legal accounts, memoirs, and administrative records to reconstruct the multiple migratory destinies of Indian migrants in Burma and Malaya after the Japanese occupation in 1942."--Antje Missbach, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, "Ramnath's book deserves a wide readership because the issues that she discusses around the disruptive histories of decolonization and state formation, border-making and citizenship, as well as the experiences and narration of displacement, have a wide resonance. I recommend this model study unreservedly."--Peter Gatrell, European Review of History, " Boats in a Storm provides a moving and ethnographic panorama of people caught in the midst of changing contortions of nation, citizenship and borders in the era of decolonization. It tracks personal displacements and disputes, through tax, inheritance and remittance, and shows the everyday dilemmas that shot through people's lives. In place of diplomacy or high politics, we are left with the granular in comprehending jurisdictional demarcations that have potent afterlives to the present, for violent structures of statelessness, nationalism or for conflicts and authoritarianism that followed in later-twentieth century Sri Lanka, Burma, India or Malaysia."--Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge
Table of Content
Introduction: Boats in a Storm 1. 1942 2. Banana Money 3. Partnership Deeds 4. Application Forms 5. Women Who Wait 6. Red Flags 7. 1962 Conclusion: An Uneasy Calm
Copyright Date
2023
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, Asia / India & South Asia, Legal History
Lccn
2022-051126
Dewey Decimal
342.54083
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Law, History

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