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Maharani's misery : narratives of a passage from India to the Caribbean / Verene A. Shepherd.

Title: Maharani's misery : narratives of a passage from India to the Caribbean / Verene A. Shepherd.
Author: Shepherd, Verene
Publication: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2002.

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Description

xxix, 177 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book continues the ongoing archeological project of excavating gender-differentiated data on the nineteenth-century post-slavery relocation of bonded labour to the colonial Caribbean. In a broader context, it contributes to that genre of historical writing that focuses on the exercise of social power and authority, through the medium of socio-sexual manipulation, by empowered males over subaltern women. The book combines documentary evidence with a surrounding narrative interpretation in order to highlight the experiences of the young Indian woman, Maharani, who was raped, and died subsequently, on board the ship Allanshaw that sailed from Calcutta to colonial Guyana in 1885. The events on this passage from India should provide further evidence that nineteenth-century labour “migration” replicated several aspects of the Middle Passage of enslaved Africans, although it was never allowed to reach slavery’s brutal limits."--pub. desc.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-173) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Indian Women and Labour Migration: Background to Maharani's Passage from India -- Journey Interrupted: Maharani's Death on the Allanshaw -- Investigating the Complaint of "Criminal Assault"

ISBN

9766401217
9789766401214

OCLC

51496891
SCSB-12369635

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library