[PDF] Indentured Labour In The British Empire 1834 1920 eBook

Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840686

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The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

Author : David Northrup
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521485197

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The indentured labour trade was begun to replace freed slaves on sugar plantations in British colonies in the 1830s, but expanded to many other locations around the world. This is the first survey of the global flow of indentured migrants from Africa that developed after the end of the slave trade and continued until shortly after the First World War. This volume describes the experiences of the two million Asians, Africans, and South Pacific Islanders who signed long-term labour contracts in return for free passage overseas, modest wages, and other benefits. The experience of these indentured migrants of different origins and destinations is compared in terms of their motives, conditions of travel, and subsequent creation of permanent overseas settlements.

Author : Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108225691

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This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.

Author : Richard B. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521641258

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In this wide-ranging social and economic history of the island of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the beginnings of modern political life in the colony in the mid-1930s, Richard Allen brings out the importance of domestic capital formation, particularly in the sugar industry. He describes the changing relationship between different elements in the society - slave, free and maroon, and East Indian indentured populations - and shows how these were conditioned by demographic changes, world markets and local institutions. Based on thorough archival research, and thoroughly attuned to contemporary debates, this 1999 book will bring the Mauritian case to the attention of scholars engaged in the comparative study of slavery and plantation systems.

Author : Andrea Major
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1781388423

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This book explores the complex interactions between imperial expansion, political abolitionism and colonial philanthropy that underpinned the ambivalent attitudes of both British evangelicals and East India company officials towards the existence of slavery in India in the period 1772–1843.

Author : David Dabydeen
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781912250073

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To mark the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (2017-2020), a groundbreaking new anthology brings together writing by descendants of indentured labourers from across the Commonwealth. Through the mediums of poetry, short stories and essays, the book explores - for the first time - the controversial legacy of indenture.

Author : Geert Oostindie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004253882

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Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-Second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were voluntary, others were forced; they helped to create colonial societies that were never typically Dutch, but did have Dutch characteristics. Power imbalance, ethnic differences and creolization characterized the cultural configuration of these colonial societies. This book, with contributions by a number of Dutch scholars, provides state-of-the-art discussions on these migration histories. In addition, it presents reflections on the ways this past and its repercussions are remembered (or forgotten, or actively silenced) throughout the former colonial empire. This part of the book is embedded in the wider contemporary debate about the contested concept of cultural heritage, and about the possibility of meaningful cultural heritage policies in a post-colonial world.