This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the womens abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India.
This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian womens cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy.
The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917. ?
Preface.- Foreword.- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview:?Indian Indentured Women a Human Agency.- Chapter 2: Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900.-?Chapter 3:?
Conceiving the Coolie Woman: Indentured Labour, Indian Women and Colonial Discourse.-?
Chapter 4:?Female Indentured Labor in Suriname: For Better or for Worse?.-
Chapter 5:?The Position of Indian Women in Suriname.-
Chapter 6:? Kunti's Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations.-
Chapter 7:?Kunti, Lakshmibhai and the Ladies : Women's Labour and the Abolition of Indentured Emigration from India.-
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