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Sepoys, Convicts and the ‘Bazaar’ Contingent: The Emergence and Exclusion of ‘Hindustani’ Pioneers at the Singapore Frontier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

Rajesh Rai
Rajesh Rai
Affiliation:
The South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. His e-mail contact is [email protected]
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Abstract

The article studies migrants from Uttar Pradesh in Singapore who have historically identified themselves as ‘Hindustani’ – a group that has largely been ignored in historical literature of the Indian diaspora in Singapore. Through an examination of British expansion in India in the early nineteenth century, parallel developments in Southeast Asia, community publications and oral testimonies, the article attempts to ‘(re)discover’ the history of Hindustani migration in Singapore.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 1 - 19
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© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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