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 unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the 'mother country' of coolies. 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.

Product details

• 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