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Inside Indian indenture : a South African story, 1860-1914 / Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed.
- Title
- Inside Indian indenture : a South African story, 1860-1914 / Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed.
- Author
- Desai, Ashwin.
- Publication
- Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Vahed, Goolam H., 1961-
- Description
- ix, 492 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Many were filled with hopes as high as the stars as they crossed the Indian Ocean, making their way from India to Durban in southern Africa in the late 1800s. Yet, realising the dream of a better life and returning home triumphant was not to be for many. Thousands returned with less than they had started out with, only to find that home was no longer the place they had left. The travellers, too, had changed irrevocably: caste had been transgressed, relatives had died and spaces for reintegration had closed up as colonialism tightened its grip. Home for these wandering exiles was no more.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-469) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Shiva's dance -- Paglaa samundar (mad ocean) -- From Raj to Raju -- 'Master Coolie' arrives -- Interpreters of indenture -- Inside the world of Uriah Heep and Jabez Balfour -- Esperanza: a place of hope? -- Bhen Choodh and the politics of ploys -- Cast(e) on an African stage -- Family matters -- When the 'coolies' made Christmas -- From heathens to Hindus -- Coolies with Bibles -- B{629}adsh{629}ah Pîr meets Sofie Saheb -- The many faces of leisure and pleisure: from China to ganja -- The bodysnatchers (1899-1902) -- Virgin Mary and the three-pound cross -- 'Drawing blood from a stone' -- Resistance goes undeground -- The moral persuaders? -- Africa calling.
- ISBN
- 9780796922441 (pbk.)
- 0796922446 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 468980661
- SCSB-10927699
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library