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100			_aMisir, Prem _eed.
245			_aSubaltern Indian Woman : Domination and Social Degradation
260			_bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2018 _aSingapore :
300			_axix, 292 p. ; _bill., _c22 cm
365			_b1795.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Ind ians from 1834 through 1917. Misir’s Indian Indentured Woman: Domination and Social Degradation is one of the few books that discusses girmit women’s degrading treatment, meagre wages, exploitation and a quest for survival. Misir’s book is a timely addition to the ‘girmit literature’ as we celebrate the 100 years of the end of the Indenture system. – Dr. Rajni Kaushal Chand, Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Arts and Media, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands [This book] is a welcome addition to the literature on indentured Indian women, and their social being in Girmit nations from 1834 to 1917 … This is a must read for anyone interested in indenture, social and political transformation, colonial studies, and gender studies. – Dr. Pramila Devi, Director, Lautoka Campus, The University of the South Pacific.
650			_aWomen slaves
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aFeminist anthropology
650			_aAsia
650			_aDomestic violence
650			_aGender studies
650			_aAnglo-Indian female paradigm
650			_a British Emancipator
650			_aCoolie lines
650			_aIndo-Fijian women
650			_aPlantation hierarchy
650			_aSurinam;Imperial India
650			_aFiji plantation labour
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