Coolies of the empire
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This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.
Title |
Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar. |
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Publisher |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Creation Date |
2017 |
Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018). Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
Introduction: indentured emigrants in the literature -- Naukari, network and indenture -- Regulating indenture -- The journey -- Agriculture and culture between two worlds -- Writing the Girmitiya experience -- The end of the indenture system -- Conclusion. |
Extent |
1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997012410290205171 |
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Tags
- East Indians Caribbean Area History.
- Indentured servants India History.
- Sugar plantations Caribbean Area History.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign Caribbean Area History.
- East Indian diaspora History.
- Diaspora, East Indian
- East Indians Diaspora
- Foreign agricultural laborers
- Sugar beet plantations
- Sugarcane plantations
- Servants, Indentured
- Asian Indians
- Indians, East
- Indians (India)
- Indic peoples
- India Emigration and immigration History.
- Great Britain Colonies History.
- Bharat
- Bhārata
- BNĖU
- БНЭУ
- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Ėnėtkhėg Uls
- Ėnėtkhėg
- Энэтхэг
- Government of India
- Hind
- هند
- Ḣindiston Respublikasi
- Inde
- Indië
- Indien
- Indii︠a︡
- Индия
- Indland
- Indo
- インド
- Republic of India
- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa
- Yindu
- Yin-tu
- 印度
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