The Girmitiya Diaspora : origins, evolution and bonding of ethnic communities / Ruben Gowricharn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gowricharn, Ruben S., 1952- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

South Asia migrations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indentured servants--India--History.

Indentured servants.

East Indians--Migrations--History.

East Indians.

East Indian diaspora--Social conditions.

East Indian diaspora.

East Indians--Foreign countries--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2026]

Contents:

List of Figures viiiList of Tables xGlossary xiA Note on Terminology xvPreface xvii1 Introduction: The Girmitiyas 11.1 Three Issues 31.2 Previous Studies 51.3 Methodological Notes 72 Ethnogenesis: A Conceptual Model 112.1 Introduction 112.2 The Ethnic Group: Basic Concepts 122.3 Latent Ethnicity 152.4 Practices and Institutions 182.5 Rural and Urban Ethnogenesis 202.6 Race and Ethnic Politics 232.7 Diaspora: Sameness and Diversity 252.8 The Conceptual Model 293 India: Emigration of Latent Ethnicity 333.1 Introduction 333.2 The Migration Culture 343.3 Agricultural Human Capital 413.4 The Recruitment and Emigration 443.5 Demographics of the Labourers 523.6 Settling in the Colony 573.7 Specificities 594 Suriname: Unity in Diversity 624.1 Introduction 634.2 The Immigrants 644.3 The Decline of the Plantations 674.4 Colonisation Policy 694.5 Ethnic Institutions 734.6 Group-wise Integration 794.7 Transnational Ethnogenesis 854.8 Specificities 885 Guyana: A Creolised Community 915.1 Introduction 925.2 Immigration 935.3 Hybrid Peasantisation 975.4 Political Polarisation 1015.5 Creolised Ethnicity 1045.6 Indo-Guyanese Politics 1095.7 Diverse Transnationalism 1165.8 Specificities 1206 Mauritius: Ethnogenesis Amid Diversity 1236.1 Introduction 1246.2 The Indian Population 1256.3 Workers and Plantations 1286.4 Morcellement as Peasantisation 1316.5 Diverse Ethnogenesis 1376.6 Political Domination 1426.7 Chota Bharat 1476.8 Specificities 1517 Fiji: Fragmented Communities 1537.1 Introduction 1547.2 Immigration 1557.3 The Land Issue 1587.4 Homesteads/Dispersion 1627.5 Fragmented Ethnogenesis 1657.6 Democracy Curtailed 1727.7 Diaspora Bonding 1777.8 Specificities 1808 Girmitiya Communities in Diaspora 1828.1 Introduction 1828.2 Preconditions 1838.3 Institutional Variations 1868.4 Patterns of Integration 1898.5 Diaspora Bonding 1928.6 Conclusion 1959 Same Yet Different 197References 202Index 214

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9781003664819

1003664814

9781040942116

1040942113

9781040942062

1040942067

Publisher Number:

90104600104

CIPO000382176

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