Historical scholarship on the colonial child and of child emigration in the British Empire has flourished in recent years, but the South Asian child migrant has not figured in these studies. Meanwhile, studies on global Indian migration in the British Empire are part of an exciting, growing field, but young people are rarely considered. This article discusses the rich and growing historiography on Indian overseas migration in the 19th and early 20th century and tries to locate the Indian child within it. It surveys work on indentured servitude, labour migration and elite travel and considers how the Indian child migrant can be located in historical works and archives. It argues that the historiography would benefit from an explicit thematisation and historicisation of the Indian child in topics such as ship voyages, child labour and education. In surveying this literature, this article argues that there is huge scope for historians of migration, childhood and empire to examine the experience of children who migrated out from the Indian subcontinent to offer deeper insight into social, economic and political change on a global scale and the Indian child migrant's relationship to shifting ideas of race, class, citizenship and nation in this period.

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大英帝国的印度儿童移民

近年来，关于大英帝国殖民儿童和儿童移民的历史研究蓬勃发展，但南亚儿童移民并没有出现在这些研究中。与此同时，关于大英帝国全球印度移民的研究是一个令人兴奋的、不断发展的领域的一部分，但很少考虑年轻人。本文讨论了 19 世纪和 20 世纪初印度海外移民的丰富和不断发展的历史编纂，并试图在其中定位印度儿童。它调查了契约奴役、劳务移民和精英旅行方面的工作，并考虑了如何在历史作品和档案中找到印度儿童移民。它认为，史学将受益于在诸如船舶航行、童工和教育等主题上对印度儿童进行明确的主题化和历史化。