| 书目名称 | The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname |
| 副标题 | Agrarian and Economi |
| 编辑 | Ruben Gowricharn |
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| 概述 | Presents history of British Indian peasants in Girmitiya societies.Follows the transformation of the Girmitiya from agriculturalists to plantation labourers to peasants to urban dwellers.Provides acce |
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| 描述 | .This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to peasants and finally to urban dwellers...The author argues that it was the Girmitiya peasants who had made greater contributions to developing the ethnic community over the labourers of whom about one-third returned to British India. The work covers the history of how the peasants institutionalised their practice, changed the physical landscape and integrated economically and politically as an ethnic group in their newly adopted homeland. Furthermore, the author presents arguments to demonstrate that Girmitiya peasants survived the plantation labour and peasant life due to their knowledge and skills of agrarian cultivation, known as agrarian human capital. The scholarly literature about the labour migration from British India has focused heavily on the fate of the labourers. Consequently, the history of the Girmitiya peasants as well as the cultural heritage they have produced has been grossly neglected. This book pu |
| 出版日期 | Book 2024 |
| 关键词 | British Indian Indentured labourers; Plantation colonies; Rice peasants; Historical transformations; Gir |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67961-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-67963-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-67961-2 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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