Indians and the Antipodes: Networks Boundaries and Circulation

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Asian History and Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington. His primary research interest is in the history of nationalism and caste system in colonial and postcolonial India. He is also interested in the history of Indian migration and the Indian Diaspora. He has written seven books, edited or co-edited nine books, and published more than forty book chapters and journal articles. His most recent books are From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India (Second Edition, 2015) and (co-ed.) Religion and Modernity in India (2016). In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2014, for his book Decolonization in South Asia he was awarded Rabindra Puraskar.

Jane Buckingham teaches history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She specialises in Indian history and has published in areas including medical and disability history, human/animal relations, business and

legal history. She is particularly interested in histories of health, migration and labour. She is the author of Leprosy in colonial south India: medicine and confinement (2002). Her most recent co-edited book is Conflict, negotiation, and coexistence: rethinking human-elephant relations in South Asia (2016).