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"It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical w
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Table of contents
- Preliminary
- Table of Contents
- Girmit Connections - Brinsley Samaroo
- Preface - Beginnings and Endings
- 1. Of Journeys and Transformations: Brij V. Lal and the Study of Girmit - Doug Munro
- 2. Return to Bahraich
- 3. The Odyssey of Indenture
- 4. A Journey Begins
- 5. Origins of the Girmitiyas
- 6. A Time to Move
- 7. Bound for the Colonies in 1905
- 8. The Voyage of the Leonidas
- 9. The Wreck of the Syria, 1884
- 10. Murmurs of Dissent
- 11. Kunti's Cry
- 12. Veil of Dishonour
- 13. Hinduism Under Indenture
- 14. The Story of the Haunted Line
- 15. 'A Want of Care': Death and Disease on Fiji Plantations, 1800-1900 - Glenn Fowler
- 16. Death On Fiji Plantations, 1900-1909 - Nicole Duncan
- 17. Accidental Deaths on Fiji Plantations, 1879-1916 - Anthony Cole
- 18. Naraini's Story - Jane Harvey
- 19. The Labasa Strike, 1907 - Matthew Ryan
- 20. Mr Tulsi's Store
- 21. Ben's Funeral
- 22. Sunrise on the Ganga
- Map of India
- Map of Fiji
- Appendix
- Tables and Figures
- Sources
- Books authored or edited by Brij V. Lal
- Index
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