New Homelands

Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa

Gebonden Engels 2009 9780195391640
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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. In this fieldwork-based study, Paul Younger looks at the present day descendents of these workers and their post-indenture societies in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa. He finds that they still cling to the fact that it was an arbitrary British decision that took them there and made the society pluralistic. This plurality seems to require them to search their memory for a distinctive religious tradition that they can pass on to their children

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ISBN13:9780195391640
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:304
Uitgever:OUP USA

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