Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Coolie Women in the Empire’s Rubber Garden: Historical and Contextual Background
- 2 “Tapping” Resources: (Re)Figuring the Labor of Coolie Women on Estates
- 3 Managing “Partnerships”: Domesticity and Entrepreneurial Endeavors
- 4 Negotiating Intimacies and Moralities: Enticements, Desertions, Violence, and Gendered Trials
- 5 Becoming “Ranis”: Coolie Women as Rani Jhansi Regiment Recruits in World War II
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Coolie Women in the Empire’s Rubber Garden: Historical and Contextual Background
- 2 “Tapping” Resources: (Re)Figuring the Labor of Coolie Women on Estates
- 3 Managing “Partnerships”: Domesticity and Entrepreneurial Endeavors
- 4 Negotiating Intimacies and Moralities: Enticements, Desertions, Violence, and Gendered Trials
- 5 Becoming “Ranis”: Coolie Women as Rani Jhansi Regiment Recruits in World War II
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Fleeting AgenciesA Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya, pp. 209 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021