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Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora

Origins, Memories, and Identity

Av Ashutosh Kumar, Crispin Bates

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Many Indians journeyed out of India to supplant the loss of slave labour in the former European plantation colonies of Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and the Caribbean from the early nineteenth century onwards. This book aims to highlight the careers of these migrants who served as vital agents in building the global society of the twenty-first century. It explores the transformative experiences of those who migrated, and the memories of those who did not return after expiration of their contracts but chose instead to stay in their respective host countries. It describes the many challenges they faced - ageing in a society far from home, the loss of their formal Indian identity after Indian independence, their efforts to preserve a sense of community in the post-independence societies of South Africa and the Caribbean, and their adapting to the new political and social realities they faced as minorities in the countries in which their ancestors had adventurously determined to settle and live.
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Ashutosh Kumar is an Associate Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His publications include Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2017); The Indian Labour Diaspora: A Resource Text for Students (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Indian Soldiers in the Global Conflict: Re-visiting the First World War (Routledge, 2020) and Warfare and Society in British India, 1757-1947 (Routledge, 2022). Crispin Bates is a Professor of modern and contemporary South Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Professor at Sunway University in Malaysia. He has authored, co-authored and edited a total of 15 books including a history of South Asia from 1600 to the present entitled Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007), and a series of seven volumes concerning the history of the Indian Uprising of 1857, entitled Mutiny at the Margins (2013-17).

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'Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora takes the reader from India to Natal, Fiji, Trinidad and Surinam. Using new source material such as folklore in the vernacular languages and photographs, the 10 chapters offer bold and fresh perspectives on the transformative experience of Indians who migrated overseas to work on colonial plantations. The focus is on being and the never completed process of becoming. Particularly insightful are the chapters dealing with the recruitment of indentured women, ageing on plantations and migration as resistance to caste oppression. This is an excellent addition to the literature on indenture and migration.' Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University

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