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This book is the second publication originating from the conference
Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future,
which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate
Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.
The articles are grouped in four sections. Section one concentrates
on indenture in the Caribbean and the IndianOcean and includes four
diverse, but inter-related chapters and contributions. These reveal
some newly- emerging, impressive trends in the study of indenture,
essentially departing from the over used neo-slave scholarship. Not
only are new concepts explored and analysed, but this section also
raises unavoidable questions on previously published studies on
indenture. Section two shows that there are many areas that need to
be re-examined and explored in the study of indenture. The chapters
in this section re-examine personal narratives of indentured
labourers, the continuous connection between the Caribbean and
India as well as education and Christianization of Indians in
Trinidad. The result is impressive. The analysis of personal
accounts or voices of indentured servants themselves certainly
provides an alternative perception to archival information written
mostly by the organizers of indenture. Section three in this volume
focuses on ethnicity and politics. In segmented societies like
Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago institutional politics
and political mobilization are mainly ethnically based. In
Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana this has led to ethnic
and political tensions. These themes are explored in these three
articles. Section four addresses health, medicine and spirituality
- themes which, until recently, have received little attention. The
first article examines the historical impact of colonialism through
indentureship, on the health, health alternatives and health
preferences of Indo-Trinidadians, from the period between 1845 to
the present. The second examines the use of protective talismans by
Indian indentured labourers and their descendants. Little or no
psychological research has been done on the spiritual world of
Indian immigrants, enslaved Africans and their respective
descendants, with special reference to the use of talismans.
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