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Coolies, capital, and colonialism : studies in Indian labour history / edited by Rana P. Behal and Marcel van der Linden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International review of social history. Supplement ; 14Publication details: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521699746
  • 9780521699747
Other title:
  • Studies in Indian labour history
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.10954 22
LOC classification:
  • HD8686 .C66 2006
Contents:
Introduction / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya -- Working across the seas : Indian maritime labourers in India, Britain, and in between, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher -- The brickmakers' strikes on the Ganges Canal in 1848-1849 / Jan Lucassen -- On the move : circulating labour in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial India / Ian J. Kerr -- Mobility and containment : the voyages of South Asian seamen, c. 1900-1960 / Ravi Ahuja -- Power structure, discipline and labour in Assam tea plantations during colonial rule / Rana P. Behal -- "Following custom?" : representations of community among Indian immigrant labour in the West Indies, 1880-1920 / Prabhu P. Mohapatra -- Masculinity, respect, and the tragic : themes of proletarian humor in contemporary industrial Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami -- Stretching labour historiography : ideas from South Asia / Willem van Schendel -- War on the shopfloor / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.
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Published for the International Institute voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-286).

Introduction / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya -- Working across the seas : Indian maritime labourers in India, Britain, and in between, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher -- The brickmakers' strikes on the Ganges Canal in 1848-1849 / Jan Lucassen -- On the move : circulating labour in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial India / Ian J. Kerr -- Mobility and containment : the voyages of South Asian seamen, c. 1900-1960 / Ravi Ahuja -- Power structure, discipline and labour in Assam tea plantations during colonial rule / Rana P. Behal -- "Following custom?" : representations of community among Indian immigrant labour in the West Indies, 1880-1920 / Prabhu P. Mohapatra -- Masculinity, respect, and the tragic : themes of proletarian humor in contemporary industrial Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami -- Stretching labour historiography : ideas from South Asia / Willem van Schendel -- War on the shopfloor / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.

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