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Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark's solitary
experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the
second half of the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the
recruitment, transportation, plantation labor, re-indenture,
repatriation, remittances and abolition of Indian indentured
experience on the island. In doing so, Roopnarine has produced a
compelling narrative on Indian indenture. The laborers challenged
and responded accordingly to their daily indentured existence using
their cultural strengths to cohere and co-exist in a
planter-dominated environment. Laborers had to create opportunities
for themselves using their homeland customs without losing the
focus that someday they would return home. Indentured Indians
understood that the plantation system would not be flexible to them
but rather they had to be flexible to plantation system.
Roopnarine's concise analysis has moved Indian indenture from the
margin to mainstream not only in the historiography of the Danish
West Indies, but also in the wider Caribbean where Indians were
indentured.
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