In her recently-released book Coolie Woman, author Gaiutra Bahadur traces the life story of her great-grandmother, who boarded an indenture ship in Calcutta in the early 1900s. The book has been ...

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Since its conceptual evolution some three decades ago, COOLITUDE, a neologism advanced by Mauritian cultural theorist Khaleel Torabully, has grown into an intellectual framework that led to the ...

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and 25% were women. Children were a strong component that made up the system of indenture. In 165 years since the introduction of indentured labour to South Africa and beyond, one poorly ...

In comparison to other former imperial colonies like Reunion, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Fiji, South African scholarship on indenture ... for Natal with a woman named Valliammal ...