ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the neglected global movements of subaltern and elite colonial Indian women, including indentured women, ayahs, social reformers, travellers, tourists and revolutionaries, through various models of female migration, travel, resistance, and agency, which acknowledges the constraints, complexity, and diversity of colonial gendered mobile lives. Studying Indian women outside colonial India does more than just challenge the invisibility of colonial Indian female migration and travel, both within public archives and the historiography of colonial South Asia; it also undermines traditional histories and geographies of empire, mobility, and gender.
