Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora

Introduction

PART 1: WOMEN, LABOUR AND NARRATIVES

1. Plantation Patriarchy and Structural Violence: Women Workers in Sri Lanka

Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena

2. My Life My Story: Narratives of the Women Left Behind

Nivedita Singh

3. Tracing the Past of Hindustani Indentured Women in Suriname, 1873-1921

Tanya Sitaram

PART 2: SOCIAL ISSUES AMONG HINDUSTANI IMMIGRANTS IN THE NETHERLANDS

4. Gender-specific Problems among Surinamese Hindustanis: Suicide and Alcoholism

Indra Boedjarath

5. Elderly Surinamese Hindustanis in the Netherlands

Nirmala Birjmohan

6. Emotional Loss among Hindustani Migrants in the Netherlands

Rahina Hassankhan

7. Socializing for Educational Success

Anita Nanhoe

PART 3: RELIGION, ARTS AND IDENTITY

8. Slavery and Indentured Labour from the Perspective of Art Studies

J.S. (Mitra) Rambaran and R. Safdar Zaidi

9. Fu Moimoi: Body Art as Identity Marker

Hilde Neus

10. God at the Fore-deck and at the After-deck

Joop Vernooij

PART 4: INDIAN MUSICAL TRADITIONS AND IDENTITY

11. The Dhantal's Irreverence: Off-beat as the In-between Time of Indenture

Ananya J. Kabir

12. The Role of the Tassa Drum Ensemble in Trinidad and Tobago's Cultural Identity Formation

Satnarine Balkaransingh

13. The Mike Men of Trinidad: Cultural, Social and Political Influences

Primnath Gooptar

Notes on Contributors

Index

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• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• História da Ásia
• Escravidão e abolição da escravatura

Bhojpuri Region;Tassa Drummers;British Empire;Mike Men;History of South Asia;Surinamese Hindustani;History since 1800;Young Men;Indian History;Indian Film Songs;Manohar;Mike Systems;Modern History;Hindustani Woman;Sri LANKA;Sri Lankan Plantations;INDIAN MUSICAL TRADITIONS;Hindustani Female;Princes Town;Christian Churches;Cooking Night;Educational Upward Mobility;Indentured Labour;Holy Men;Hindustani Immigrants;Native Dutch Respondents;Gender Specific Problems;USA;Film Songs;Hindustani Respondents;British Indian Woman