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Girmitiyas : The Making Of Their Memory-Keepers From The Indian Indentured Diaspora

Brij V. Lal

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They are scattered around the globe now, descendants of girmitiyas, indentured labourers, and other subaltern groups of Indians. The journey of their forebears, from India to the tropical sugar colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was fraught, but they emerged from the debris of subalternity to lay the foundations of many a colony, from South Africa to Suriname and many places in-between. For the most part, however, they have been ignored by history books as a people without agency or humanity, unworthy of consideration. This picture has been changing in recent decades largely as the result of scholars such as those represented in this volume. They have shifted the focus of research from the imperial discourse of policy and high politics to the lived experience of people in the colonies and their concerns, hopes and struggles. A new historiography was thus born. In the essays in this volume, scholars from the Indian subaltern diaspora write about their improbable journeys and serendipitous transformations in the face of great odds, of the influences that shaped their thinking and approach to the study of the past of their forebears. This is scholarship up close and personal, not desiccated and dry. Fascinating, often moving stories in themselves, the essays collectively provide indispensable insights into the emergence of a field of history which their intervention has rescued from certain obscurity. In the process, both the writers and their forebears are ennobled.

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Author	Brij V. Lal
Publisher	Primus Books
Language	English
Binding Type	Hardcover
Main Category	Art & Humanities
Sub Category	Political Science
ISBN13	9789355720740
SKU	BK 0174557