By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic pageants, expositions, an

By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic pageants, expositions, an

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democr

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.