Benevolent Neutrality: Indian Government Policy And Labour Migration To British Guiana, 1854-1884
written by Basdeo Mangru, fl. 1987 (Hertford, England: Hansib Publications, 2012, originally published 1987), 270 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- First published in 1987, Benevolent Neutrality is a detailed, scholarly study of the migration of Indian labourers overseas and their living and working conditions under the iniquitous indenture system. Based largely on unpublished sources, this volume analyses the socio-economic, political and cultural factors which induced a traditionally non-migratory people to leave their motherland for service in distant sugar colonies. It examines the pressures to formulate policies and implement them, their effectiveness in protecting the interests of indentured workers and the ways in which these policies were obstructed.This book also includes a major pioneering study of Indian women migrants, particularly the circumstances of recruitment, sexual exploitation on sugar estates, the alarming rate of wife murders and women’s assertiveness and militancy during periods of industrial unrest.
- Field of Interest
- Black Studies
- Author
- Basdeo Mangru, fl. 1987
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 1987 Basdeo Mangru
- Content Type
- Book
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 1987
- Page Count
- 270
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Publisher
- Hansib Publications
- Place Published / Released
- Hertford, England
- Subject
- Black Studies, Diversity, Slavery, Communities, Migration, Immigration and emigration, Indentured servitude, Escravidão, Esclavitud, Guayana, Guiana, British Guiana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Guyana, India, Indians (Asian)
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Escravidão, Esclavitud, Guayana, Guiana, British Guiana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana
