Kala Pani crossings : revisiting 19th century migrations from India's perspective

Introduction: Kala pani crossings : India in conversation / Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak -- Theorizing the troubled black waters / Vijay Mishra -- Moving beyond the memory question : narratives of South Asian indenture, global memory capitalism and its discontents / Nandini Dhar -- Connected literatures and histories across Kala pani : perspectives from India / Ritu Tyagi -- Escaped or tricked? Why Indian women crossed / Kanchan Dhar -- The 'terror' of Kala pani : a colonial myth? / Suparna Sengupta -- Caste travelling across the Kala pani : the case of the unborn V.S. Naipaul / Joshil K. Abraham -- The cult of Draupadi and its propagation through indentured labour in Reunion Island / Vijaya Rao -- 'I will survive on a seer of saag the full year' : uncovering women's work, belonging and 'Kala pani' in 'Bidesia' songs / Ridhima Tewari -- A passage to Mauritius : the ebb and flow of Kala pani in Hindustani cinema / Kumari Issur -- Coolie life-writing and its shifting locations--narrativizing Kala pani within the nation and in the diaspora / Kusum Aggarwal -- Pioneers across Kala pani : reading Girmitiyas in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge, Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie woman and Totaram Sanadya's Twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands / Himari Lahiri -- Exilic trajectories of crossing the Kala pani : locating female subjectivity in the writings of Ramabai Espinet and Gaiutra Bahadur / Praveen Mirda -- Retrieving the history of Coolie women : historiography, research and the role of agencies in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge and Peggy Mohan's Jahajin / Arnab Kumar Sinha -- The politics of representation and the interface of Sycorax and the can : a study of Olive Senior's Arrival of the Snake-Woman / Udita Banerjee.