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Indian Indentured Migration and the Forced Labour Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Marina Carter
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The migrants who left India to work on colonial sugar plantations in the nineteenth century have been variously categorised as neo-slaves or as voluntary black settlers. This paper assesses some of the recent historical claims and revisionist interpretations of Indian indentured labour and takes up a number of themes based on the Mauritian case to highlight important aspects of this colonial labour diaspora.

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Itinerario , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1997, pp. 52 - 61
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1997

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