Madhavi Kale is professor of history of

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and associate professor at the

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. Kale received her BA from

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and her

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from the

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. Kale is a specialist in British and imperial history, and has published numerous works on the Indian indenture system. In a 2002 review of ''

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'' in ''

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'', she criticized the series as "a disturbingly revisionist project that seeks to neutralize ... the massive political and military brutality and repression" of the empire."Reviews", Madhavi Kale, ''

'', Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 2002), pp. 250-253.

Selected publications

*"The Negro and Dark Princess: Two Legacies of the Universal Races Congress (London, 1911)" in ''

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'', 92 (spring): pp. 133–152. (With Robert Gregg) *"Projecting Identities: Empire and 19th-Century Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana," in Peter van der Veer, ed., ''Nation and Migration''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. *"Capital Spectacles in British Frames: Capital, Empire and Indian Indentured Migration to the British Caribbean" in '' International Review of Social History'', 41:109-33, 1996. *"When the 'Saints' came marching in: British abolitionists and Indian indentured migration" in Rick B. Halpern and Martin Daunton, eds., ''Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. *''Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean''. Philadelphia:

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, 1998.

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*http://utoronto.academia.edu/madhavikale 21st-century American historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Yale University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Bryn Mawr College faculty Academic staff of the University of Toronto Historians of the British Empire {{US-historian-stub