Coolies of the Empire
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Coolies of the Empire

Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830–1920

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eBook - PDF

Coolies of the Empire

Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830–1920

About this book

This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Coolies of the Empire
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Maps
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Abbreviations
  11. 1. Introduction: Indentured Emigrants in the Literature
  12. 2. Naukari, Network and Indenture
  13. 3. Regulating Indenture
  14. 4. The Journey
  15. 5. Agriculture and Culture between Two Worlds
  16. 6. Writing the Girmitiya Experience
  17. 7. The End of the Indenture System
  18. 8. Conclusion
  19. Appendices
  20. Glossary
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index