The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy (Record no. 525870)
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| Personal name | Natarajan, Kalathmika |
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| Title | The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Extent | 57(2). Mar, 2023: p.321-350 |
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| Summary, etc | This article examines the postcolonial Indian state's 20-year-long discretionary passports policy until 1967, often in collaboration with the British government in its efforts to limit growing numbers of Indian immigrants. While a vast scholarship has shown the racialized limits to mobility perpetuated by the passport and visa system against ‘coloured immigrants’, this article considers the Indian state's own restrictions over the emigration of a particular category of its ‘undesirable’ citizens. This passport regime was based on Indian diplomatic notions of the ‘international’ realm as one shaped by the journeys of migrants and imbued with discourses of indenture qua caste. The Indian state sought to prevent the mobility of ‘lower’ caste and class migrants who were deemed to be legatees of the dreaded ‘coolie’ and therefore unworthy of travelling abroad as representatives of India. Such a reading of the postcolonial Indian passport as a document of caste and class privilege goes beyond the existing literature which largely focuses on its use in the context of partition. In so doing, this article posits the histories and afterlives of indenture as a constitutive element in the making of Indian diplomacy, demonstrating that a focus on indenture facilitates a much-needed recovery of the narratives and euphemisms of caste in Indian diplomacy. – Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/privilege-of-the-indian-passport-19471967-caste-class-and-the-afterlives-of-indenture-in-indian-diplomacy/FDC79CB96F09533606E43509F40A1ED4 |
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