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Voices from Calcutta: Indian Indenture in the Age of Abolition

Voices from Calcutta: Indian Indenture in the Age of Abolition - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Purba HossainSeries:Global South AsiansPublish date:7/10/2025Pages:266
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009573009ISBN-10:1009573004UPC:9781009573009Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCBECXJM88
Between 1837 and 1920, 1.3 million indentured labourers migrated from India to sugar plantation colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Voices from Calcutta shows how spokesmen from Calcutta - the capital of British India - disrupted this trade and influenced the lives of these migrants. It follows Calcuttans in their journey of debating, investigating and defending indenture, unfolding a complex web of letters, petitions, interviews and investigative-reports. As the indenture debates influenced lived experience on ships and plantations, and shaped the negotiation of subjecthood and labour rights for the empire's peripatetic labourers, they became a means by which elite Calcuttans negotiated their own position within the empire. This book locates in Calcutta voices of protest that fundamentally defined the contours of post-slavery labouring across the British Empire. Instead of simply emanating from Britain, to be dutifully followed in the colonies, labour legislation was informed by voices from those very colonies.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009573009ISBN-10:1009573004UPC:9781009573009Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCBECXJM88
Hossain, Purba: - Purba Hossain is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York. She is the author of Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building, published by Bloomsbury in 2023. She is a historian of colonial India with an interest in how Indians negotiated life under colonial rule and contributed to imperial processes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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