For more than 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. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent
political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations
between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount
cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts,
often obscured by national and international political
developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities
and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant
pasts, in the aftermath of empires. 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. 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.
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