Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard Life, Unrest and Mutiny

by Aaron Jaffer

Lascars were seamen from the Indian subcontinent and other areas of the Indian Ocean region who were employed aboard European ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. They experienced difficult working conditions and came from a wide variety of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, which created considerable scope for friction between them and their European officers. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783270381
• ISBN13: 9781783270385
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"