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Springer Subaltern Indian Women Domination and Social Degradation by Misir Prem
1. Introduction and Overview: Indian Indentured Women as Human Agency / Prem Misir 2. Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860–1900 / Indrani Sen 3. Conceiving the Coolie Woman: Indentured Labour, Indian Women and Colonial Discourse / Mishi Faruqee 4. Female Indentured Labor in Suriname: For Better or for Worse? / Rosemarijn Hoefte 5. The Position of Indian Women in Surinam / P.C. Emmer 6. Kunti’s Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations / Brij V. Lal 7. Kunti, Lakshmibhai and the “Ladies”: Women’s Labour and the Abolition of Indentured Emigration from India / Karen A. Ray 8. Fallen Through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women Against Indentured Labour Emigration / Shobna Nijhawan 9. Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora / Verene A. Shepherd 10. “Time to Show Our True Colors”: The Gendered Politics of “Indianness” in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Smitha Radhakrishnan 12. Reflexivity and the Diaspora: Indian Women in Post-Indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius and South Africa / Ravindra K. Jain 13. The Indo-Fijian Woman’s Story: Violence Against Women / Prem Misir