1st Edition
Voices and Silences Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean
By Anjali Singh
Copyright 2023
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Cartographies of Indenture: Historical Overview
2. The Girmitiyas of Fiji: A Forgotten Generation
3. The Jahajis: Indentured Indians in the Caribbean
4. The Aesthetics of Narrative: Poetics of Indenture
5. Emerging from Indenture/ship: Evolving Being and Belonging
Biography
Anjali Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India. She has a PhD in English and has travelled widely, presenting research papers in Australia and Fiji.
