Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, 1838-1920

by Lomarsh Roopnarine and Lamarsh Roopnarine

Indo-Caribbean Indenture investigates the relatively little-studied but growing field of the experiences of East Indians in the Caribbean from their arrival in 1838 to the end of indentureship in 1920. It places the indenture period into a larger socio-economic framework of imperialism, the post-slavery attempt to solve the labour shortage and the gender-relations which overarched the whole transaction in human bodies. By utilizing a new analytical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766401853
• ISBN13: 9789766401856
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"