Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Gaiutra Bahadur

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture


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ISBN: 9780226211381 | 312 pages | 8 Mb

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  • Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
  • Gaiutra Bahadur
  • Page: 312
  • Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
  • ISBN: 9780226211381
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her ...



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