Kumar, Ashutosh

Coolies of the empire : indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 - xvi, 320 p.: ill.; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--

9781107147959


East Indians--Caribbean Area--History.
Indentured servants--India--History.
Sugar plantations--Caribbean Area--History.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Caribbean Area--History.
East Indian diaspora--History.
India--Emigration and immigration--History.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.

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