A Passage from India: The East Indian Indenture Experience in Trinidad 1845-1885

dc.contributor.advisorClifford Griffin, Committee Memberen_US
dc.contributor.advisorRichard Slatta, Committee Memberen_US
dc.contributor.advisorDavid Gilmartin, Committee Chairen_US
dc.contributor.authorPersad, Rajesh Surendraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-02T18:03:30Z
dc.date.available2010-04-02T18:03:30Z
dc.date.issued2008-10-29en_US
dc.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
dc.degree.levelthesisen_US
dc.degree.nameMAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this research has been to analyze the social relationships that developed during the formative years of East Indian indenture system in the Trinidad. This work is an attempt to explore how the East Indian indentured immigrants in Trinidad individually and collectively navigated through the experience of servitude to form a collective identity and become established in a foreign land as they evolved from transient laborers to permanent settlers. Without the Indian laborers the sugar industry and the island’s prosperity faced ruin while the perceived prosperity of the Indians inspired resentment. Caught between the worlds of freedom and unfreedom, the Indians sought to establish themselves within Trinidad’s society.en_US
dc.identifier.otheretd-08132008-104154en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/1372
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dc.subjectEast Indian Indenture Laboren_US
dc.subjectTrinidaden_US
dc.titleA Passage from India: The East Indian Indenture Experience in Trinidad 1845-1885en_US

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