Coolies of the Empire - Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 18301920

Informationen zum Autor Ashutosh Kumar is a postdoctoral Research Fellow on AHRC 'Becoming Coolies' Project at University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Delhi. He was also Fellow at The Gilder Lehrman Centre for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, Connecticut, and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. It looks at how the migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the complex mesh of the indentured labour system. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: indentured emigrants in the literature; 2. Naukari, network and indenture; 3. Regulating indenture; 4. The journey; 5. Agriculture and culture between two worlds; 6. Writing the girmitiya experience; 7. The end of the indenture system; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index....

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• Authors: Ashutosh Kumar, Ashutosh (University of Leeds) Kumar, Kumar Ashutosh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107147959
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14795-9
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Agriculture & Related Industries, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Asia / South / General