Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920

Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar.

"Focuses on the overseas Indians who left their homeland to work on colonial sugar plantations during the 19th and early 20th centuries under the indenture system, introduced in the British Empire subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashutosh Kumar, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
East Indians > Caribbean Area > History.
Indentured servants > India > History.
Sugar plantations > Caribbean Area > History.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign > Caribbean Area > History.
East Indian diaspora > History.
India > Emigration and immigration > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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