Sri Lanka, Jan. 10 -- Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka.Author: Nira WickramasingheReviewed by Anushka Kahandagama

Nira Wickramasinghe's new book, Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka discusses the histories of enslaved people in the Indian subcontinent, a topic rarely explored. The travellers in the region were not only explorers, invaders, traders or religious figures, it also included those stamped out from the histories of life and power, and forced to travel across the boundaries as 'slaves'. Their histories are connected both to the histories of the geographies and communities they came from and travelled to.

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