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Indian indentured emigration is among the most notable social
phenomena of modern history, which sent over one million men and
women to tropical sugar colonies in the Atlantic, Pacific and
Indian oceans. Indenture began in the 1830s and lasted till 1920; a
period which finds little or no mention either in history textbooks
or in literature. This book takes a closer look at some of the
important narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to
highlight the experience of the indentured people across the
plantation colonies in Fiji and in the Caribbean. The story of
indenture is the story of betrayal, of trauma and of resistance. It
is also a narrative of resilience, assimilation and acculturation.
This book offers an in-depth literary study to reveal that there
exists a language of indenture, one that permeates all the texts
written on the subject. The texts speak to, and for each other,
thereby revealing the indenture experience to the reader.
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