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Empire’s hidden histories live on through migrant families’ memories.
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Worldly Afterlives
tracing family trails between india and empire
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248 pages
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24 March 2026
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Summary
Worldly Afterlives: Unearthing Empire’s Ghosts Through Migrant Stories
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 am…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691205458 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691205450 |
| Series: | Histories of Economic Life |
| Author: | Julia Stephens |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Julia Stephens
Julia Stephens is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia.
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