{"product_id":"voices-from-calcutta-indian-indenture-in-the-age-of-abolition-9781009573009","title":"Voices from Calcutta: Indian Indenture in the Age of Abolition","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHossain, Purba:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603096207634,"sku":"9781009573009","price":117.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4312423a-1376-453d-8faa-c2150fd12b5d.jpg?v=1757424007","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/voices-from-calcutta-indian-indenture-in-the-age-of-abolition-9781009573009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}