London, Nov 3 (PTI) A UK-based historian has traced how the journeys of more than 1 million migrants during the colonial era influenced India’s diplomatic identity as the largest diaspora of the world in a new book published this week. Dr Kalathmika Natarajan, a lecturer in Modern South Asian History in the Department of Archaeology and History and co-director of the Exeter South Asia Centre, began diving into the subject as part of her PhD research.

The result is ‘Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914–67’, one of the first books that hopes to substantively draw links between international relations, indenture and labour migration. “This book began as a PhD thesis at the University of Copenhagen in 2015, and as an effort to explore how migration shap

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