Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34261-2 (ISBN)
Many Indians journeyed out of India to supplant the loss of slave labour in the former European plantation colonies of Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and the Caribbean from the early nineteenth century onwards. This book aims to highlight the careers of these migrants who served as vital agents in building the global society of the twenty-first century. It explores the transformative experiences of those who migrated, and the memories of those who did not return after expiration of their contracts but chose instead to stay in their respective host countries. It describes the many challenges they faced — ageing in a society far from home, the loss of their formal Indian identity after Indian independence, their efforts to preserve a sense of community in the post-independence societies of South Africa and the Caribbean, and their adapting to the new political and social realities they faced as minorities in the countries in which their ancestors had adventurously determined to settle and live.
Ashutosh Kumar is an Associate Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His publications include Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2017); The Indian Labour Diaspora: A Resource Text for Students (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Indian Soldiers in the Global Conflict: Re-visiting the First World War (Routledge, 2020) and Warfare and Society in British India, 1757-1947 (Routledge, 2022). Crispin Bates is a Professor of modern and contemporary South Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Professor at Sunway University in Malaysia. He has authored, co-authored and edited a total of 15 books including a history of South Asia from 1600 to the present entitled Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007), and a series of seven volumes concerning the history of the Indian Uprising of 1857, entitled Mutiny at the Margins (2013-17).
List of illustrations/figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Introduction Crispin Bates and Ashutosh Kumar; Part I. Origins: 1. 'Coolie Catching': The Recruitment of Indentured Women to Colonial Natal Kalpana Hiralal; 2. Life on the Plantations: Indentured Indians in South Africa and Fiji, 1860-1917 Archana Kumari; 3. Stories of Girmitiyas: Folklore and Socio-Cultural World of Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies Ashutosh Kumar; 4. The 'Ageing' Traces of Female Bhojpuri Migrants in Suriname Sarojini Lewis; 5. Girmityas and the Story of Salt behind the Sugar Bobby Luthra Sinha; Part II. Afterlives: 6. Sanctions for Citizenship: Indians Overseas and Imperial Reciprocity Heena Mistry; 7. 100 Years after Indenture: The Present Generation of Indo-Trinbagonians and Their Cultural Environments Satnarine Balkaransingh; 8. Emigration Against Caste and the Globalization of Castelessness Gajendran Ayyathurai; 9. Memory, Nostalgia and Reality: A Socio-historical Perspective of Culture and Education in the Grey Street Complex Tashmica Sharma; 10. Rooting History: Indian Indenture in South Africa and the Sultan of many journeys Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Global South Asians |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 703 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-34261-4 / 1009342614 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-34261-2 / 9781009342612 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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