The Subaltern Indian Woman Domination and Social Degradation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Misir, Prem (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Women.; Asia-History.; Feminist anthropology.; Emigration and immigration.; Women's Studies.; History of South Asia.; Feminist Anthropology.; Diaspora.

This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women's abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining the...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview: Indian Indentured Women a Human Agency
• Chapter 2: Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900.- Chapter 3:  Conceiving the Coolie Woman: Indentured Labour, Indian Women and Colonial Discourse.- Chapter 4: Female Indentured Labor in Suriname: For Better or for Worse?
• Chapter 5: The Position of Indian Women in Suriname
• Chapter 6:  Kunti's Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations
• Chapter 7: Kunti, Lakshmibhai and the "Ladies": Women's Labour and the Abolition of Indentured Emigration from India
• Chapter 8: Fallen through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women against Indentured Labour Emigration
• Chapter 9: Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora
• Chapter 10: "Time to Show Our True Colors": The Gendered Politics of "Indianness" in Post-Apartheid South Africa
• Chapter 11: Reflexivity and The Diaspora: Indian Women in Post‐indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius and South Africa
• Chapter 12: The Indo-Fijian Woman's Story: Violence Against Women.   .