Beyond Indenture: Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora (Global South Asians) | Hardcover | History

About this book Beyond Indenture: Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora (Global South Asians) published by Cambridge University Press. Key highlights - A collection of essays that reflect, as far as possible, the viewpoints and voices of indentured Indians who exercised agency, resisted and manipulated the colonial labour system to their advantage, and went on to build new lives for themselves overseas following the expiry of their contracts. - A collection of essays reflecting the viewpoints and voices of Indians who built new lives for themselves overseas following the expiry of their indenture contracts - Crispin Bates is Professor of modern and contemporary South Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of African and Asian Studies, Kyoto University. - List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Agency and Resistance 1. Negotiating Power in Colonial Natal: Indentured Migrants in Natal, 1860–1911 2. Stewed Plums, Baked Porridge and Flavoured Tea: Poisoning by Indian Domestic Servants in Colonial Natal 3. Labour Resistance in Indenture Plantations in the Assam Valley 4. A Forgotten Narrative of the Satyagraha Campaign: The Treatment of Prisoners between 1907 and 1914 - 5. Toilers across the Seas: Racial Discrimination and Political Assertion among Sikhs in Canada Part II. Remigration 6. The Remigration of Hindostanis from Surinam to India, 1878–1921 7. Not So Anchored: The Remigration of Indians within the Caribbean Region 8. On the Move: Remigration in the Indian Ocean, 1850–1906 Part III. Gender and Family 9. Intimate Lives on Rubber Plantations: The Textures of Indian Coolie Relations in British Malaya. - The lives of millions of plantation and domestic workers, traders, moneylenders, teachers, civil servants, sailors and others who migrated from India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to all continents deserve a close and detailed study. This book, with its rigorous, wide-ranging and accomplished scholarship, is exciting to read. It is a monumental contribution to the history of indenture and post-indentureship studies. –David Dabydeen, University of Cambridge - Beyond Indenture represents an exciting new chapter in the scholarship on Indian indentured migration. Going far beyond earlier debates that saw indentured labourers either purely as victims of exploitation or as wholly free agents, the bracing collection of essays here highlights a range of voices and a diversity of experiences. - The book is exemplary in featuring cutting-edge scholarship from scholars at different stages of their careers and from different locations. The collection is expertly edited and hugely compelling. –Sunil Amrith, Yale University. - Beyond Indenture is a fitting tribute to the late Brij V. Lal, scholar and individual extraordinaire. It places the history of indentured labourers from India alongside a variety of overseas labour from India. The result is a volume with a good mix of both familiar and unusual topics. The shared theme across the essays is the resilience and grit of people even under exploitative conditions. It makes this a standout volume on the subject. –Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan - An insightful and impressive set of essays on many facets of the social lives of South Asian migrant labourers in the colonial and post-colonial eras. A worthy tribute to Brij Lal. –Sugata Bose, Harvard University Related topics History/Asia - South - General.