Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1 Introduction: Nonfiction Booms and the Migration Turn 1
4. Chapter 2 Of the Migrations and Mobilities of Free Men and Rats: Aman Sethi and Amitava Kumar 33
5. Chapter 3 Migrant Minds, Colonial Legacies, Public Intellection: Jawaharlal Nehru, Verrier Elwin and Ramachandra Guha 64
6. Chapter 4 Migration and Environmental Justice: Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy 99
7. Chapter 5 The Migrant Female Voices of Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Krishnabhabini Das and Saradasundari Devi 133
8. Chapter 6 Visceral Needs and the Need for Others in the Migrant World: Rigoberta Menchú, Jamaica Kincaid, and Slavenka Drakulic 167
9. Bibliography 199
10. Index 213