Coolies, capital, and colonialism : studies in Indian labour history /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Behal, Rana Partap, Linden, Marcel van der, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:International review of social history. Supplement 14
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
  • Working across the seas : Indian maritime labourers in India, Britain, and in between, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher
  • The brickmakers' strikes on the Ganges Canal in 1848-1849 / Jan Lucassen
  • On the move : circulating labour in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial India / Ian J. Kerr
  • Mobility and containment : the voyages of South Asian seamen, c. 1900-1960 / Ravi Ahuja
  • Power structure, discipline and labour in Assam tea plantations during colonial rule / Rana P. Behal
  • "Following custom?" : representations of community among Indian immigrant labour in the West Indies, 1880-1920 / Prabhu P. Mohapatra
  • Masculinity, respect, and the tragic : themes of proletarian humor in contemporary industrial Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami
  • Stretching labour historiography : ideas from South Asia / Willem van Schendel
  • War on the shopfloor / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.