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Convicts in the Indian Ocean
Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53
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About this book
When the British took control of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius soon after the abolition of the slave trade, they were faced with a labour-hungry and potentially hostile Franco-Mauritian plantocracy. This book explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work building the infrastructure necessary to fuel the expansion of the sugar industry. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, it is shown how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Convicts in the Indian Ocean
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction: Convict Labour and Colonial Expansion
- 2 ‘The Most Desperate Characters in all India’? The Origins of Transportation in the South Asian Context
- 3 Punishment, Labour and Reform: the Organisation of the Convict Workforce
- 4 Violent and ‘Everyday’ Forms of Resistance: Convict Responses to Transportation
- 5 The Socio-economic Integration of Convicts
- 6 The End of Transportation and the Liberation of the Convicts
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index