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Berbice and Turkeyen Campuses
Berbice and Turkeyen Campuses
Coolies of the Empire :
by Ashutosh Kumar,
Published by : Cambridge University P., (New York, NY :) Physical details: xvi, 320 p. : ill., chart, diagrs, maps, photos. ISBN: 9781107147959. Subject(s): East Indians -- Caribbean Area. -- History
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Indentured servants
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India
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History.
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Sugar plantations
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Caribbean Area .
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History.
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign
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Caribbean Area.
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History.
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East Indian diaspora
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History.
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India
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Emigration and immigration
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History.
Year: 2017
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Caribbean Research Library
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Bibliography: p. [299] --313.
Introduction: indentured emigrants in the literature -- Naukari, network and indenture -- Regulating indenture -- The journey -- Agriculture and culture between two worlds -- Writing the Girmitiya experience -- The end of the indenture system -- Conclusion.
"Focuses on the overseas Indians who left their homeland to work on colonial sugar plantations during the 19th and early 20th centuries under the indenture system, introduced in the British Empire subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833"-- |c Provided by publisher.
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