The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname
Author | : Ruben Gowricharn |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 303167961X |
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Author | : Ruben Gowricharn |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 303167961X |
Author | : Ruben Gowricharn |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783031679605 |
This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to peasants and finally to urban dwellers. The author argues that it was the Girmitiya peasants who had made greater contributions to developing the ethnic community over the labourers of whom about one-third returned to British India. The work covers the history of how the peasants institutionalised their practice, changed the physical landscape and integrated economically and politically as an ethnic group in their newly adopted homeland. Furthermore, the author presents arguments to demonstrate that Girmitiya peasants survived the plantation labour and peasant life due to their knowledge and skills of agrarian cultivation, known as agrarian human capital. The scholarly literature about the labour migration from British India has focused heavily on the fate of the labourers. Consequently, the history of the Girmitiya peasants as well as the cultural heritage they have produced has been grossly neglected. This book purports to fill this void by telling the history of Girmitiya peasants in Suriname, a Caribbean society adjacent to former British Guyana.
Author | : Priyanka Chaudhary |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031596153 |
Author | : Ruben Gowricharn |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2021-07-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000412571 |
This book critically examines new perspectives on the transformations in the Indian diaspora. It studies the changing perspectives on the historical background of the diaspora and analyses fresh and emerging views in response to new configurations in diaspora relations. The volume highlights the transformation of the old Indian diaspora into a new ensemble in which economic, ideological and cultural forces predominate and interact closely. It looks at various themes including Indian indentured emigration to sugar colonies, comparisons between labour migration from India and China, the Girmitiya diaspora, the Indian diaspora in Africa and the rise of racial nationalism, India’s soft power in the Gulf region, and the repurposing of the ‘Hindutva’ idea of India for Western societies as undertaken by diaspora communities. Lucid and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, migration studies, political studies, international relations, globalisation, political sociology, sociology and South Asia studies.
Author | : Ashutosh Kumar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108225691 |
This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.
Author | : Stephen Cornell |
Publisher | : Pine Forge Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1412941105 |
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Author | : Ashutosh Kumar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107147956 |
This book unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the 'mother country' of coolies.
Author | : Brij V. Lal |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1922144894 |
Professor Lal has been remarkably successful in combining scholarship with autobiography in Mr Tulsi’s Store. In the essays which cover the author’s childhood and education up to university, diligent scholarship combines with evocative autobiographical details to reveal a philosophical pattern that encompasses the experience of the descendants of all Indian indentured workers everywhere. Professor Frank Birbalsingh, York University, Canada.
Author | : Brij V. Lal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : East Indians |
ISBN | : |
"This book is an imaginative and valuable contribution to the literature on Indian immigration. The many new insights it provides are of such importance that one hopes it will serve as a model for work on other indentured colonial populations. It is a "ground breaking work", a basic contribution to the scholarly literature on Indians in Fiji, especially because its wealth of statistical information on the origins of the immigrants and its coverage of the formal structure of the system which brought them to Fiji"--Publisher's description.