"New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa" (Repost)
Paul Younger, "New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa"
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195391640 | edition 2009 | PDF | 304 pages | 5,49 mb
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195391640 | edition 2009 | PDF | 304 pages | 5,49 mb
When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture, or contract, was written for an initial period of five years and involved fixed wages and some specified conditions of work. From the workers' point of view, the one redeeming feature of the system was that most of their workmates spoke their language and came from the same area of India.
"New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa" (Repost)
