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This essay introduces the themes of the special issue, with particular attention to the work of gender in restructuring social, economic and political histories.

Introduction to the Book Forum on Ishita Pande's Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937

Abstract
This article introduces a roundtable that consists of short reflections on Stuart Hall's posthumously published memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands. Written in collaboration with Bill Schwarz and completed after his death, the genre-defying text recounts aspects of a diasporic life lived "between two islands." The essays take in-betweenness in Familiar Stranger seriously, treating it as symptomatic of Hall's locative position and as an indispensable feature of his thought. Approaching the book from the perspective of varying fields and concerns, the authors draw attention to how it opens a space between past and present; metropole and colony; high and low cultural forms; Jamaica and Britain; history and memory; seeing and knowing.

Burton's essay introduces the forum on Julian Go's Patterns of Empire, setting out the terms of the debate and mapping the entanglements of an anti-exceptionalist argument with narratives of rise-and-fall that have predominated until recently in British imperial history.