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Children of Kala Pani: Indian Indentured Routes brings together a synoptic overview of the painful experiences of indentured workers across the Global South. It is one of the few attempts here in South Africa that speaks to the historiography of indenture as an inclusive analysis of the old Indian diaspora. Children of Kala Pani: Indian Indentured Routes foregrounds the harsh experiences of the diaspora in adopted countries by going beyond the traditional research data, utilizing, e.g., literature, personal accounts. This connectedness renders the Kappal Karans or Jahaji Bheins or Bhais as transnational identities that show more similarities than differences.
Beyond the transnational identity, it is necessary to locate the labor shipment to the Global South within the colonial labor procurement processes that ran parallel with the abolishment of slavery. The exclusive nature of Indian indentured research must look beyond the narrow confines of traditional agency for a better understanding of the context of indenture to suture the divisions of our fractured past, especially here in South Africa . The telling of this history through Children of Kala Pani: Indian Indentured Routes must find its way into our school curriculum before its lost entirely.
