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Author Ashutosh Kumar, 1984- author.

Title Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 / Ashutosh Kumar
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages .)
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject East Indians -- Caribbean Area -- History
Indentured servants -- India -- History
Sugar plantations -- Caribbean Area -- History
Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Caribbean Area -- History
East Indian diaspora -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign
British colonies
East Indian diaspora
East Indians
Emigration and immigration
Indentured servants
Sugar plantations
Society.
SUBJECT India -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056645
Subject Caribbean Area
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108226295
1108226299
9781316556627
131655662X
9781108226653
1108226655