Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies--which depicted convict women as