Voices from Calcutta

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Indian Indenture in the Age of Abolition

Purba Hossain (University of York)

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English

Cambridge University Press
10 July 2025

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social groups

Series: Global South Asians

Between 1837 and 1920, 1.3 million indentured labourers migrated from India to sugar plantation colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Voices from Calcutta shows how spokesmen from Calcutta – the capital of British India – disrupted this trade and influenced the lives of these migrants. It follows Calcuttans in their journey of debating, investigating and defending indenture, unfolding a complex web of letters, petitions, interviews and investigative-reports. As the indenture debates influenced lived experience on ships and plantations, and shaped the negotiation of subjecthood and labour rights for the empire's peripatetic labourers, they became a means by which elite Calcuttans negotiated their own position within the empire. This book locates in Calcutta voices of protest that fundamentally defined the contours of post-slavery labouring across the British Empire. Instead of simply emanating from Britain, to be dutifully followed in the colonies, labour legislation was informed by voices from those very colonies.

By: Purba Hossain (University of York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781009573009
ISBN 10: 1009573004
Series: Global South Asians
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 10 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Purba Hossain is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York. She is the author of Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building, published by Bloomsbury in 2023. She is a historian of colonial India with an interest in how Indians negotiated life under colonial rule and contributed to imperial processes.