Girmitiyas

Girmitiyas PDF Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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"This book is an imaginative and valuable contribution to the literature on Indian immigration. The many new insights it provides are of such importance that one hopes it will serve as a model for work on other indentured colonial populations. It is a "ground breaking work", a basic contribution to the scholarly literature on Indians in Fiji, especially because its wealth of statistical information on the origins of the immigrants and its coverage of the formal structure of the system which brought them to Fiji"--Publisher's description.

Girmitiyas

Girmitiyas PDF Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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"This book is an imaginative and valuable contribution to the literature on Indian immigration. The many new insights it provides are of such importance that one hopes it will serve as a model for work on other indentured colonial populations. It is a "ground breaking work", a basic contribution to the scholarly literature on Indians in Fiji, especially because its wealth of statistical information on the origins of the immigrants and its coverage of the formal structure of the system which brought them to Fiji"--Publisher's description.

Girmitiya Culture and Memory

Girmitiya Culture and Memory PDF Author: Priyanka Chaudhary
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031596153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Tears in Paradise

Tears in Paradise PDF Author: Rajendra Prasad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473114565
Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Revised Edition. TEARS IN PARADISE, extensively researched and eloquently written, is the history of our forefathers who were brought under the infamous indentured labour system to Fiji by the British Colonial authorities from 1879 to 1916. The saga of these young, mostly illiterate, simple rural folks, lured by false promises of an ever-elusive 'Paradise', needs to be read and remembered. The author has done a remarkable task of compiling the story of this Indian Diaspora, people defenceless under an alien and systematically inhumane system, yet preserving their culture while creating the wealth and beauty of the land they made their home.

The Girmitiya Saga

The Girmitiya Saga PDF Author: Giriraj Kishore
Publisher: Niyogi Books
ISBN: 8189738453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 669

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This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions in South Africa. On the longlist of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2010.

Chalo Jahaji

Chalo Jahaji PDF Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144614
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Literature of Girmitiya

Literature of Girmitiya PDF Author: Neha Singh
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811946213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history, and identity in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. This book aims to document the history, experiences, culture, assimilation, and identity of girmitiya community. It also critically analyses the articulation, projection, and production of their experiences of migration and being immigrant, their narratives, tradition, culture, religion, and memory. It also explores how this labour community formulated into a diaspora community and reconnected/created the home (land) and continues to do so in the wake of globalization and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This book is an attempt to bring the intriguing neglected diverse historical heritage of colonial labour migration and their narratives into the mainstream scholarly debates and discussions in the humanities and the social sciences through the trans- and interdisciplinary perspectives. This book assesses the routes of migration of old diaspora, and it explains the nuances of cultural change among the generations. Although, they have migrated centuries back, absorbed and assimilated, and got citizenships of respective countries of destinations but still their longing for roots, culture, identities, “home”, and the constant struggle is to retain connections with their homeland depicted in their cultural practices, arts, music, songs, folklore and literary manifestations.

Coolies of the Empire

Coolies of the Empire PDF Author: Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108225691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.

The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname

The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname PDF Author: Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303167961X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness PDF Author: Doug Munro
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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"Brij V. Lal is a singular scholar. His work has spanned disciplines—from history to politics—and genres—from conventional monograph history, to participant history, political commentary, encyclopaedia, biography and faction. Brij is without doubt the most eminent scholar Fiji has ever produced. He also remains the most significant public intellectual of his country, despite having been banned from entering it in 2009. He is also one of the leading Pacific historians of his generation, and an internationally recognised authority on the Indian diaspora. This Festschrift volume celebrates, reflects upon and extends the life and work of this colourful scholar. The essays, whose contributors are drawn from across the globe, do more than review Brij’s work; they also probe his contribution to both scholarly and political life. This book will therefore serve as an invaluable guide for readers from all walks of life seeking to better situate and understand the impact of Brij’s scholarly activism on Fiji and beyond." — Clive Moore, University of Queensland "It is a pleasure to commend this collection of very different essays that celebrate, reflect upon and extend the life and work of a remarkable scholar. Although I have had, at times, a close association with Brij Lal’s life and work, I have learned much from reading this book. It provokes further thought about the course of democracy in Fiji, and the very sorry state and future of Pacific history and the humanities in academia. Here is a timely assertion of the significance and major contribution that courageous scholars such as Brij have made to the study and public awareness of these areas of concern." — Jacqueline Leckie, University of Otago

END OF INDENTURE An Agonising Journey To Freedom

END OF INDENTURE An Agonising Journey To Freedom PDF Author: Dr. Ruchi Verma, Narayan Kumar and Amb. Anup Mudgal
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 818430580X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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The present book is a collection of writeups contributed by various eminent artists and art critics on different kinds of art tetechniques. This book was first published in the year 1826.