Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour - The South Asian Working Class in British Malaya

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India.

List of contents

Introduction by the Editors
Ideation: Historiographical, Methodological, and Philosophical
Chapter 1: Repurposing Colonialism: Historical Intellectuality, Postcolonial/Decolonial Encounter and the Colonial Labour History in Malaysia
Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja and Shivalinggam Raymond
Chapter 2: Colonialism's Postcoloniality/Coloniality, Historical Epistemology, and a Case for Malaysian South Indian Labour Historiography
Shivalinggam Raymond
Historical Discussions
Chapter 3: Global Colonial Economy, South Indian Labour Immigration, and British Colonial Institutions and Practices: A Historical Perspective
Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja
Chapter 4: The Inception and Internal Workings of the Tamil Immigration Fund in British Malaya, 1907-1938
Pushpavalli A. Rengasamey
Chapter 5: Towards the Interaction between the Chettiar Financial Capitalist and the South Indian Working-Class in British Malaya
Ummadevi Suppiah
Chapter 6: Indian Agents of the Government of India and the Conception of a Transnationalist Context of the South Indian Labourers of Malaya
M. Utaman Raman
Chapter 7: Colonial Exigencyand Labour Self-Agency: Colonial Policy, Labour Agricultural Land Settlement, and South Indian Response from the 1900s to the 1930s Great Depression
Thivya Ranie
Epilogue
Bibliography

About the author

Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja is a Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia
Shivalinggam Raymond is a research assistant in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia

Summary

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India.

Product details

• Authors: Sivachandralingam Raymond Sundara Raja
• Assisted by: Shivalinggam Raymond (Editor), Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja (Editor), Sundara Raja Sivachandralingam (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032302799
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230279-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Malaysia, British Empire, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General