Format:
xvi, 320 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781107147959
Content:
"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"--
Content:
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 299-313
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Kumar, Ashutosh, 1984 - Coolies of the empire Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781316556627
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Inder
;
Kuli
;
Zuckerrohranbau
;
Geschichte 1830-1920
