New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa - Younger, Paul (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, McMast er University) - Libros - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195391640 - 10 de diciembre de 2009
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New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa

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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 Youngerlooks 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. Thisplurality seems to require them to search their memory for a distinctive religious tradition that they can pass on to their children


304 pages, 52 black and white halftones; 6 line illustrations

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 10 de diciembre de 2009
ISBN13 9780195391640
Editores Oxford University Press Inc
Páginas 304
Dimensiones 165 × 237 × 20 mm   ·   634 g
Lengua Inglés  

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