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COOLIES OF THE EMPIRE : Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar.

By: Language: English Publication details: UK Cambridge University Press 2017/01/01Edition: 1Description: 320ISBN:
  • 9781107147959 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.0491411 ASH/CO
Contents:
Introduction: indentured emigrants in the literature -- Naukari, network and indenture -- Regulating indenture -- The journey -- Agriculture and culture between two worlds -- Writing the Girmitiya experience -- The end of the indenture system -- Conclusion.
Summary: "Focuses on the overseas Indians who left their homeland to work on colonial sugar plantations during the 19th and early 20th centuries under the indenture system, introduced in the British Empire subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833"--
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Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction 909.0491411 ASH/CO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available E192857

Introduction: indentured emigrants in the literature -- Naukari, network and indenture -- Regulating indenture -- The journey -- Agriculture and culture between two worlds -- Writing the Girmitiya experience -- The end of the indenture system -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Focuses on the overseas Indians who left their homeland to work on colonial sugar plantations during the 19th and early 20th centuries under the indenture system, introduced in the British Empire subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833"--

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