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Coolie Woman
Author | : Gaiutra Bahadur |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226043388 |
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
Fleeting Agencies
Author | : Arunima Datta |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108837385 |
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Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
The Guyana Story
Author | : Odeen Ishmael |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781479795901 |
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The Guyana StoryFrom Earliest Times to Independence traces the countrys history from thousands of years ago when the first Amerindian groups began to settle on the Guyana territory. It examines the period of early European exploration leading to Dutch colonization, the forcible introduction of African slaves to work on cotton and sugar plantations, the effects of European wars, and the final ceding of the territory to the British who ruled it as their colony until they finally granted it independence in 1966. The book also tells of Indian, Chinese, and Portuguese indentured immigration and shows how the cultural interrelationships among the various ethnic groups introduced newer forms of conflict, but also brought about cooperation in the struggles of the workers for better working and living conditions. The final part describes the roles of the political leaders who arose from among these ethnic groups from the late 1940s and began the political struggle against colonialism and the demand for independence. This struggle led to political turbulence in the 1950s and early 1960s when the country was caught in the crosshairs of the cold war resulting in joint British-American devious actions that undermined a democratically elected pro-socialist government and deliberately delayed independence for the country until a government friendly to their international interests came to power.
Coolies of the Empire
Author | : Ashutosh Kumar |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107147959 |
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This book unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the 'mother country' of coolies.
Coolie
Author | : Mulk Raj Anand |
Publsiher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction, General |
ISBN | : 0140186808 |
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Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.
Maharani s Misery
Author | : Verene Shepherd |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9766401217 |
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Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labour with indentured Indian labour. This is the story of one Indian woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the 19th century.
The Subaltern Indian Woman
Author | : Prem Misir |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789811051661 |
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This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.