Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia is a fascinating new book by Vineeta Sinha, a professor of sociology and anthropology at the National University of Singapore.
It explores how Indian migrant workers, brought to colonial Malaya and Singapore to build and maintain the railway system, were not just labourers laying down tracks – they were also community-builders and religion-makers.
BFM speaks to the author about all of this and how it resulted in interesting parallels and divergences in political thought between the South Indians, specifically the Tamils in Tamil Nadu and those in Malaya or Singapore. Read the book here.
Presented and produced by: Dashran Yohan/BFM
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