Anand A. Yang is the Walker Family Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and the author of The Limited Raj and Bazaar India.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 • Across the Kala Pani: The Global and Local Contexts of Penal Transportation
2 • "Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy Sepoys, and Neas Men": The Bengkulu World of the Khan Brothers, 1797-1825
3 • "Kumpanee ke Noukur": Rajas and Robbers in Penang, 1790-1870s
4 • "Near China beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggernath": Convict Workers and the Making of Colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s
5 • Epilogue-Life after Life: The Afterlives of Bandwars in the Straits Settlements
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