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‘The contrast between the lean, hungry Cassius-looking coolies who arrive at Port Louis, and the stout, muscular well-fed fellows with well-lined purses who leave its shores, is very remarkable.’ Taken from F.J. Mouat, A Bengal Civilian, Journal of Five Months’ Residence in the Mauritius, Calcutta, 1838.

Source: William Agnew Paton, Down the Islands, A Voyage to the Caribbees, Charles Scribner, NY, 1887. Illustration by M J Burns.

Source: J. Rodway & H.J. Stark, Stark’s Guide Book and History of British Guiana, Sampson Low, London, 1907.

Individuals wishing to return to India with family members were required to obtain the consent of relatives or guardians. Source: Mauritius Archives

Source: J. Rodway and H.J. Stark, Stark’s Guide Book and History of British Guiana, Sampson Low, London, 1907.

BASAS Annual Conference

posted by francesca on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 00:00

Dr Andrea Major from the project team attended the British Association of South Asian Studies conference at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, 6-8 April 2016. She hosted and spoke in a panel on Indentured identities: colonial discourse, subaltern agency and Indian labour migration, 1834-1930.

(http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/basas/)

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