Essays on Indentured Indians in Natal

Download or read book Essays on Indentured Indians in Natal written by Surendra Bhana and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These scholarly essays break new ground in the study of Indian indentured labour, the role of labour migration in economic development and the history of Natal. The collection includes M. D. North-Coombes well-documented comparison between the role of indentured labour in the sugar industries in Natal and Mauritius, Maureen Swan's study of worker accomodation and resistance to the conditions of indenture, Jo Beall's investigation of the double oppression of women under the system, and Surendra and Arvinkumar Bhana's exploration of the abnormally high rates of suicide amongst indentured workers. But these migrant workers are never seen merely as faceless victims of an oppressive system. Their acts of resistance are charted and their individual stories flesh out the Bhana's and Beall's essays, and in Rajend Mestrie's study of language contact and change and J. B. Brain's essay on the contract between Hindus, Muslims and Christian missionaries we have further reminders that these migrants brought not only their labour power but the strength of their cultural resources"--Page 4 of cover.