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Convicts and coolies : rethinking indentured labour in the nineteenth century
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Anderson, Clare (2009) Convicts and coolies : rethinking indentured labour in the nineteenth century. Slavery and Abolition, Vol.30 (No.1). pp. 93-109. doi:10.1080/01440390802673856 ISSN 0144-039X .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440390802673856
Abstract
This article seeks to shift the frame of analysis within which discussions of Indian indentured migration take place. It argues that colonial discourses and practices of indenture are best understood not with regard to the common historiographical framework of whether it was 'a new system of slavery', but in the context of colonial innovations in incarceration and confinement. The article shows how Indian experiences of and knowledge about transportation overseas to penal settlements informed in important ways both their own understandings and representations of migration and the colonial practices associated with the recruitment of indentured labour. In detailing the connections between two supposedly different labour regimes, it thus brings a further layer of complexity to debates around their supposed distinctions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Indentured servants -- India, Penal colonies, Imperialism | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Slavery and Abolition | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0144-039X | ||||
Official Date: | March 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.30 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 93-109 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01440390802673856 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Funder: | National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
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