Kritish Rajbhandari is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. His doctoral dissertation won the ACLA Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best dissertation in Comparative Literature in 2020. He has published in South Asia, Research in African Literatures, and Comparative Literature and translated two books of poetry from Nepalbhasa.

• Introduction: the archive and the drift; 1. Language: cosmopolitan pasts and the problem of translation; 2. Narrative: Afro-Asian intimacies beyond post/colonial frames; 3. Body: indenture, nationalism, and queer contours of diaspora; 4. Place: India in Africa and the invisibility of black migrancy; 5. Sea: Chagos, testimonial fiction, and the afterlives of slavery; Coda: ocean as comparison; Notes; Index.

Kritish Rajbhandari is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. His doctoral dissertation won the ACLA Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best dissertation in Comparative Literature in 2020. He has published in South Asia, Research in African Literatures, and Comparative Literature and translated two books of poetry from Nepalbhasa.

• Introduction: the archive and the drift; 1. Language: cosmopolitan pasts and the problem of translation; 2. Narrative: Afro-Asian intimacies beyond post/colonial frames; 3. Body: indenture, nationalism, and queer contours of diaspora; 4. Place: India in Africa and the invisibility of black migrancy; 5. Sea: Chagos, testimonial fiction, and the afterlives of slavery; Coda: ocean as comparison; Notes; Index.

Kritish Rajbhandari is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. His doctoral dissertation won the ACLA Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best dissertation in Comparative Literature in 2020. He has published in South Asia, Research in African Literatures, and Comparative Literature and translated two books of poetry from Nepalbhasa.

• Introduction: the archive and the drift; 1. Language: cosmopolitan pasts and the problem of translation; 2. Narrative: Afro-Asian intimacies beyond post/colonial frames; 3. Body: indenture, nationalism, and queer contours of diaspora; 4. Place: India in Africa and the invisibility of black migrancy; 5. Sea: Chagos, testimonial fiction, and the afterlives of slavery; Coda: ocean as comparison; Notes; Index.