Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- III Gender and Family
- 9 Intimate Lives on Rubber Plantations: The Textures of Indian Coolie Relations in British Malaya
- 10 Labouring under the Law: Exploring the Agency of Indian Women under Indenture in Colonial Natal, 1860–1911
- 11 Gujarati ‘Passenger Indians’ in the Eastern Cape since 1900: Business, Mobility, Caste and Community
- 12 The Eurasian Female Workforce and Imperial Britain: Harnessing Domestic Labour by People of Mixed Racial Descent
- IV Legacies
- 13 After the Long March: Colonial-Era ‘Relief’ for Burma Indian Evacuees in Visakhapatnam District, 1942–1948
- 14 Opposing the Group Areas Act and Resisting Forced Displacement in Durban, South Africa
- 15 Indo-Fijians: From Agency to Abjection
- 16 New and Old Diasporas of South South Asia: Sri Lanka and Cyber-Nationalism in Malaysia
- About the Contributors
- Index
Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- III Gender and Family
- 9 Intimate Lives on Rubber Plantations: The Textures of Indian Coolie Relations in British Malaya
- 10 Labouring under the Law: Exploring the Agency of Indian Women under Indenture in Colonial Natal, 1860–1911
- 11 Gujarati ‘Passenger Indians’ in the Eastern Cape since 1900: Business, Mobility, Caste and Community
- 12 The Eurasian Female Workforce and Imperial Britain: Harnessing Domestic Labour by People of Mixed Racial Descent
- IV Legacies
- 13 After the Long March: Colonial-Era ‘Relief’ for Burma Indian Evacuees in Visakhapatnam District, 1942–1948
- 14 Opposing the Group Areas Act and Resisting Forced Displacement in Durban, South Africa
- 15 Indo-Fijians: From Agency to Abjection
- 16 New and Old Diasporas of South South Asia: Sri Lanka and Cyber-Nationalism in Malaysia
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- Beyond IndentureAgency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora, pp. 384 - 395Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024