Benevolent neutrality : Indian government policy and labour migration to British Guiana, 1854-1884 / Dr. Basdeo Mangru.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mangru, Basdeo, author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indentured servants--Guiana--History.

Indentured servants.

Indentured servants--Guiana--Social conditions.

East Indians--Guiana--History.

East Indians.

Emigration and immigration law--Guiana.

Emigration and immigration law.

Guiana--Emigration and immigration.

Guiana.

India--Emigration and immigration.

India.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Hertford, United Kingdom : Hansib Publications, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

First published in 1987, Benevolent Neutrality is a detailed, scholarly study of the migration of Indian labourers overseas and their living and working conditions under the iniquitous indenture system. Based largely on unpublished sources, this volume analyses the socio-economic, political and cultural factors which induced a traditionally non-migratory people to leave their motherland for service in distant sugar colonies. It examines the pressures to formulate policies and implement them, their effectiveness in protecting the interests of indentured workers and the ways in which these policies were obstructed.This book also includes a major pioneering study of Indian women migrants, particularly the circumstances of recruitment, sexual exploitation on sugar estates, the alarming rate of wife murders and women's assertiveness and militancy during periods of industrial unrest.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Post-Emancipation Immigration Schemes

2 Factors Influencing Emigration

3 The Problems Of Recruitment

4 The Depot and the Voyage

5 The Indenture System and its consequences

6 The Indians Become Settlers

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Originally published in 1987; this edition published 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-261), index, and glossary.

Other Format:

Print version: Mangru, Basdeo, Benevolent neutrality : Indian government policy and labour migration to British Guiana, 1854-1884.

OCLC:

1130724866

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