| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 240 pages) |
| Series |
Global South Asians |
| Contents |
Cover -- FLEETING AGENCIES -- General Editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES ON THE TERM "COOLIE" -- SITUATING THE HISTORY OF COOLIE WOMEN -- SITUATIONAL AGENCY: (RE)CONCEIVING AGENCY -- FINDING AND NARRATING A HISTORY OF COOLIE WOMEN -- CHARTING UNCHARTED HISTORIES -- 1 COOLIE WOMEN IN THE EMPIRE'S RUBBER GARDEN: HISTORICAL AND CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND -- THE LABOR CONNECTION BETWEEN INDIA AND MALAYA -- NEED FOR COOLIE WOMEN ON ESTATES IN MALAYA -- ECONOMIC CONCERNS OF PLANTERS -- POLITICAL CONCERNS OF PLANTERS -- TENSIONS AMONGST PLANTERS IN MALAYA -- ADDRESSING LABOR CONCERNS THROUGH PLANNED GENDERED LABOR RECRUITMENT -- COOLIE WOMEN AND CALLS FROM THE EMPIRE'S RUBBER GARDEN -- (RE)CONCEIVING INDIAN COOLIE WOMEN'S MIGRATION HISTORY -- 2 "TAPPING" RESOURCES: (RE)FIGURING THE LABOR OF COOLIE WOMEN ON ESTATES -- PRODUCING AND REPRODUCING LABOR -- PRODUCING LABOR -- Weeding -- Tapping -- Factory Work -- REPRODUCING LABOR -- ASSESSING "DEPENDENCE" AND "DEPENDENT" IMAGES OF COOLIE WOMEN -- COOLIE WOMEN, LABOR STRIKES, AND RIOTS -- COOLIE WOMEN AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH ESTATE HIERARCHIES -- REMEMBERING COOLIE WOMEN'S "IDENTITIES" AND CONTRIBUTIONS ON ESTATES -- 3 MANAGING "PARTNERSHIPS": DOMESTICITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ENDEAVORS -- THE COOLIE HOUSEHOLD: SPATIALITIES OF VIOLENCE -- COLONIAL DESIGNS FOR COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS -- COMPLICATED REALITIES OF COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS -- VARIOUS DEPICTIONS OF COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS -- CONCEIVING THE POSITION OF COOLIE WOMEN IN COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS -- COOLIE WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE -- 4 NEGOTIATING INTIMACIES AND MORALITIES: ENTICEMENTS, DESERTIONS, VIOLENCE, AND GENDERED TRIALS -- COOLIE WOMEN'S INTIMATE RELATIONS AND COLONIAL JUDGMENTALISM -- IN THE NAME OF SOCIAL ORDER AND NATIONAL HONOR |
| Summary |
Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration, interacted with other migrants and negotiated colonial laws. This is the first study of Indian coolie women in British Malaya to date. In exploring the politicization of labour migration trends and gender relations in the colonial plantation society in British Malaya, the author foregrounds how the migrant Indian 'coolie' women manipulated colonial legal and administrative perceptions of Indian women; their gender-prescriptive roles, relations within patriarchal marriage institutions, and even the emerging Indian national independence movement in India and Malaya. All this, to ensure their survival, escape from unfavourable relations and situations, and improve their lives. The book also introduces the concept of situational or fleeting agency, which contributes to further a nuanced understanding of agency in the lives of Indian coolie women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 29, 2021) |
| Subject |
Indigenous women -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Social conditions -- History
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Unskilled labor -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Social conditions -- History
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Malaya
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108937115 |
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110893711X |
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9781009032360 |
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1009032364 |
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