Voices and Silences Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean
Voices and Silences: Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean by Anjali Singh, published by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated on August 26, 2024, explores the significant yet often overlooked phenomenon of Indian indentured emigration. This edition, comprising 216 pages, delves into the narratives surrounding indenture, a period that spanned from the 1830s to 1920, and examines the experiences of over one million men and women sent to tropical sugar colonies across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
Readers will find an in-depth literary study that highlights the themes of betrayal, trauma, and resistance, as well as resilience, assimilation, and acculturation within the context of indentured labor. The book emphasizes the interconnectedness of various texts on the subject, revealing a distinct language of indenture that resonates throughout the narratives. By evaluating these important stories, the book sheds light on the complex experiences of indentured people in Fiji and the Caribbean, contributing to the broader discourse in cultural and ethnic studies, history, and social sciences.
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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 narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to highlight the experience of the indentured people across the plantation colonies in Fiji and in the Caribbean. The story of indenture is the story of betrayal, of trauma and of resistance. It is also a narrative of resilience, assimilation and acculturation. This book offers an in-depth literary study to reveal that there exists a language of indenture, one that permeates all the texts written on the subject. The texts speak to, and for each other, thereby revealing the indenture experience to the reader.
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