Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: xvi, 320 pages : figures, maps, tables ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781107147959
- East Indians
- Indentured servants
- Sugar plantations
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign
- East Indian diaspora
- -- Caribbean Area -- History
- -- India -- History
- -- Caribbean Area -- History
- -- Caribbean Area -- History
- -- History
- India -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- 909.049 23 ASH
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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.
"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"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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