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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur

• Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
• Gaiutra Bahadur
• Page: 312
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780226211381
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Pdf file ebook download Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur 9780226211381

In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her ...

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After two years of travel, research and “chasing footnotes,” Bahadur wrote Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, a book that examines the  Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Book) by Gaiutra
In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited  Journey of the 'coolie' women in the history of the British empire
Coolie Woman – The Odyssey of Indenture is a genealogical page-turner interwoven with a compelling, radical history of empire told from the  Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture (Book, 2013) [WorldCat.org]
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I finally ordered Gaiutra Bahadur's book, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, which traces the author's great-grandmother's passage  Author and Journalist Gaiutra Bahadur Speaks at The Storm King
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