Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar.
Ashutosh Kumar, 1984-| Call Number | 909/.0491411 |
| Author | Ashutosh Kumar, 1984- author. |
| Title | Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018). |
| 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. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Subject | 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. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018). |
| 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. |
| Subject | 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. |
| Multimedia |