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Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar.
Van Pelt Library F2191.E27 A84 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashutosh Kumar, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indians--Caribbean Area--History.
- East Indians.
- Indentured servants--India--History.
- Indentured servants.
- Sugar plantations--Caribbean Area--History.
- Sugar plantations.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Caribbean Area--History.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign.
- East Indian diaspora--History.
- East Indian diaspora.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- India--Emigration and immigration--History.
- India.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- British colonies.
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107147959
- 1107147956
- OCLC:
- 991819003
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