Voices from Indenture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from Indenture write by Marina Carter. This book was released on 1996. Voices from Indenture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fitting in with the emphasis of the series on studying movements of people that have been little researched and written about in the past, this volume focuses on the Indian labor diaspora. The author draws on 19th-century material from Mauritius, the Caribbean, Fiji, Natal, and Reunion, much of it letters of indentured or time-expired laborers and their families, and much of it previously unpublished. Coverage includes the experiences of recruitment and the voyage overseas, the working lives of indentured Indians, personal lives of Indian migrants, and new horizons--the world beyond indenture. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Coolie Woman
Coolie Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coolie Woman write by Gaiutra Bahadur. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Coolie Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
The Legacy of Indian Indenture
The Legacy of Indian Indenture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legacy of Indian Indenture write by Maurits S. Hassankhan. This book was released on 2016-11-10. The Legacy of Indian Indenture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the second publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora
Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora write by Amba Pande. This book was released on 2020-01-03. Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the processes of migration and settlement of indentured Indian women and tries to map their struggles, challenges and agencies. It highlights the fact that even though indentured women faced various kinds of violence and abuse owing to the authoritarian and patriarchal setup of the plantations, over a period of time, they managed to turn the adverse circumstances to their advantage. They struggled to emerge as productive workforces and empowered themselves through acquiring education and skill, and negotiating new spaces and identities for themselves. At the same time, they also raised families in often inhospitable circumstances, passing on to their descendants, a strong foundation to build successful lives for themselves.The book discusses indentured women from a multidisciplinary perspective and adopts multiple methodologies, including primary and secondary sources, personal narrations, pictorial representations and theoretical discussions. It also provides an overview of the current discourses and the changing paradigms of the studies on Indian indentured women. Further, it presents a detailed, region-wise description of indentured women migrants. The regions covered in this book are Asia- Pacific (countries covered are Fiji, Burma and Nepal); Africa (countries covered are South Africa, Mauritius and Reunion Island); and the Caribbean (countries covered are Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago). In addition, one full section of the book is devoted to the theoretical frameworks that touch upon gender performativity, normative misogyny, Bahadur's Coolie Women, literary representations and resistance movements. It is intended for academics and researches in the field of diaspora/migration/transnational studies, history, sociology, literature, women/gender studies, as well as policymakers and general readers interested in the personal experiences of women and migrants.
Migrant Voices in Literatures in English
Migrant Voices in Literatures in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrant Voices in Literatures in English write by Anu Shukla. This book was released on 2006. Migrant Voices in Literatures in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Papers presented at the Second World Conference of World Association for Studies in Literatures in English, held at Nagpur in January 2004.
