1st Edition

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora Past and Present

    374 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book is the third 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.

    Introduction

    PART 1: WOMEN, LABOUR AND NARRATIVES

    1. Plantation Patriarchy and Structural Violence: Women Workers in Sri Lanka

    Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena

    2. My Life My Story: Narratives of the Women Left Behind

    Nivedita Singh

    3. Tracing the Past of Hindustani Indentured Women in Suriname, 1873-1921

    Tanya Sitaram

    PART 2: SOCIAL ISSUES AMONG HINDUSTANI IMMIGRANTS IN THE NETHERLANDS

    4. Gender-specific Problems among Surinamese Hindustanis: Suicide and Alcoholism

    Indra Boedjarath

    5. Elderly Surinamese Hindustanis in the Netherlands

    Nirmala Birjmohan

    6. Emotional Loss among Hindustani Migrants in the Netherlands

    Rahina Hassankhan

    7. Socializing for Educational Success

    Anita Nanhoe

    PART 3: RELIGION, ARTS AND IDENTITY

    8. Slavery and Indentured Labour from the Perspective of Art Studies

    J.S. (Mitra) Rambaran and R. Safdar Zaidi

    9. Fu Moimoi: Body Art as Identity Marker

    Hilde Neus

    10. God at the Fore-deck and at the After-deck

    Joop Vernooij

    PART 4: INDIAN MUSICAL TRADITIONS AND IDENTITY

    11. The Dhantal’s Irreverence: Off-beat as the In-between Time of Indenture

    Ananya J. Kabir

    12. The Role of the Tassa Drum Ensemble in Trinidad and Tobago’s Cultural Identity Formation

    Satnarine Balkaransingh

    13. The Mike Men of Trinidad: Cultural, Social and Political Influences

    Primnath Gooptar

    Notes on Contributors

    Index

    Biography

    Maurits S. Hassankhan is Head of the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities at Anton de Kom University of Suriname.

    Lomarsh Roopnarine is Associate Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Jackson State University, United States.

    Radica Mahase holds a BA and PhD in History from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and a MA in Modern Indian History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.