Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora

Ashutosh Kumar is an Associate Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His publications include Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2017); The Indian Labour Diaspora: A Resource Text for Students (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Indian Soldiers in the Global Conflict: Re-visiting the First World War (Routledge, 2020) and Warfare and Society in British India, 1757-1947 (Routledge, 2022). Crispin Bates is a Professor of modern and contemporary South Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Professor at Sunway University in Malaysia. He has authored, co-authored and edited a total of 15 books including a history of South Asia from 1600 to the present entitled Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007), and a series of seven volumes concerning the history of the Indian Uprising of 1857, entitled Mutiny at the Margins (2013-17).

List of illustrations/figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Introduction Crispin Bates and Ashutosh Kumar; Part I. Origins: 1. 'Coolie Catching': The Recruitment of Indentured Women to Colonial Natal Kalpana Hiralal; 2. Life on the Plantations: Indentured Indians in South Africa and Fiji, 1860-1917 Archana Kumari; 3. Stories of Girmitiyas: Folklore and Socio-Cultural World of Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies Ashutosh Kumar; 4. The 'Ageing' Traces of Female Bhojpuri Migrants in Suriname Sarojini Lewis; 5. Girmityas and the Story of Salt behind the Sugar Bobby Luthra Sinha; Part II. Afterlives: 6. Sanctions for Citizenship: Indians Overseas and Imperial Reciprocity Heena Mistry; 7. 100 Years after Indenture: The Present Generation of Indo-Trinbagonians and Their Cultural Environments Satnarine Balkaransingh; 8. Emigration Against Caste and the Globalization of Castelessness Gajendran Ayyathurai; 9. Memory, Nostalgia and Reality: A Socio-historical Perspective of Culture and Education in the Grey Street Complex Tashmica Sharma; 10. Rooting History: Indian Indenture in South Africa and the Sultan of many journeys Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai; Index.