Sancintya Mohini Simpson
Brisbane

Drawing on research into her maternal family’s history, Sancintya Mohini Simpson investigates the legacies of Indian indentured labor in the British colony of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa) from 1860 to 1911. As a descendent of this community, more than 200,000 of whom were recruited from the port of Madras (Chennai) to work on sugar plantations, Simpson navigates the complexities of trauma, migration, and memory, aiming to reappraise their forgotten narratives.