Voices from indenture: experiences of Indian migrants in the British empire

Abstract

Part 1 The Indian labour diaspora - an overview: the scale and the operation of regulated migration recruiters and recruits the voyage life in the colonies. Part 2 Experiences of recruitment and the voyage overseas: the first wave of Indian indentured migrants 1834-1841 experiences of recruitment 1842-1910 settlers, returnees and recruiters experiences of the voyage. Part 3 The working lives of indentured Indians: work experiences during the transition from slavery to indenture complaints of new immigrants strategies of control and resistance involving ex-indentured immigrants the infirm and the insubordinate. Part 4 The personal lives of Indian migrants: the marital life of overseas Indians family relationships under indenture the pull of home and family - migrants' efforts to return letters from relatives left behind. Part 5 New horizons - the world beyond indenture: new providers - relatives and remittances new lifestyles - property, landownership and family regroupment new diasporas - re-migrations of overseas Indians new communities - experiences of ovrseas-born Indians.

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