Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia, Ranikhet

• Book Review

While there has been a plethora of writing on the migration of indentured labour in recent years, what remained largely unexamined was the role of the state. Mongia addresses this gap by answering two important questions: how did states come to control migration, and what do these controls tell us about state formation and operation?