Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Committee on Emigration from IndiaPublisher:
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Category : Foreign workers
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Emigration from India to the Crown Colonies and Protectorates
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Committee on Emigration from IndiaPublisher:
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Category : Foreign workers
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Indian Caribbean
Author: Lomarsh RoopnarinePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149681441X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the people and the ways in which they define themselves and the world around them. Through oral history and ethnography, Lomarsh Roopnarine explores previously marginalized Indians in the Caribbean and their distinct social dynamics and histories, including the French Caribbean and other islands with smaller South Asian populations. He pursues a comparative approach with inclusive themes that cut across the Caribbean. In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean. Today India bears little relevance to most of these Caribbean Indians. Yet, Caribbean Indians have developed an in-between status, shaped by South Asian customs such as religion, music, folklore, migration, new identities, and Bollywood films. They do not seem akin to Indians in India, nor are they like Caribbean Creoles, or mixed-race Caribbeans. Instead, they have merged India and the Caribbean to produce a distinct, dynamic local entity. The book does not neglect the arrival of nonindentured Indians in the Caribbean since the early 1900s. These people came to the Caribbean without an indentured contract or after indentured emancipation but have formed significant communities in Barbados, the US Virgin Islands, and Jamaica. Drawing upon over twenty-five years of research in the Caribbean and North America, Roopnarine contributes a thorough analysis of the Indo-Caribbean, among the first to look at the entire Indian diaspora across the Caribbean.
India
Author: Indian National Congress. British CommitteePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute Illustrating the Relations Between Europeans and Coloured Races
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad
Author: Alexander RocklinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion—they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives—they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
Bonded Labour
Author: Sabine Damir-GeilsdorfPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839437334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.