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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF INDIAN INDENTURED LABOUR AND ITS DIASPORA: PAST AND PRESENT

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora

Past and Present

Edited by
Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Radica Mahase

First published 2017

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ISBN: 978-1-138-28078-6 (hbk)
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Contents

1. 1. 1. Plantation Patriarchy and Structural Violence: Women Workers in Sri Lanka
      RACHEL KURIAN AND KUMARI JAYAWARDENA
   2. 2. My Life My Story: Narratives of the Women Left Behind
      NIVEDITA SINGH
   3. 3. Tracing the Past of Hindustani Indentured Women in Suriname, 1873-1921
      TANYA SITARAM
2. 1. 4. Gender-specific Problems among Surinamese Hindustanis: Suicide and Alcoholism
      INDRA BOEDJARATH
   2. 5. Elderly Surinamese Hindustanis in the Netherlands
      NIRMALA BIRJMOHAN
   3. 6. Emotional Loss among Hindustani Migrants in the Netherlands
      RAHINA HASSANKHAN
   4. 7. Socializing for Educational Success
      ANITA NANHOE
3. 1. 8. Slavery and Indentured Labour from the Perspective of Art Studies
      J.S. (MITRA) RAMBARAN AND R. SAFDAR ZAIDI
   2. 9. Fu Moimoi: Body Art as Identity Marker
      HILDE NEUS
   3. 10. God at the Fore-deck and at the After-deck
      JOOP VERNOOIJ
4. 1. 11. The Dhantal's Irreverence: Off-beat as the In-between Time of Indenture
      ANANYA J. KABIR
   2. 12. The Role of the Tassa Drum Ensemble in Trinidad and Tobago's Cultural Identity Formation
      SATNARINE BALKARANSINGH
   3. 13. The Mike Men of Trinidad: Cultural, Social and Political Influences
      PRIMNATH GOOPTAR

Background

This volume is the third publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future , which had been organized in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR) of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, in collaboration with a number of government and non-government organizations.

The aim of the conference was to connect historical specificities of slavery, indentured labour and migration to contemporary issues of globalization, diaspora, identity formation, nationalism and transnationalism. A second aim of the organizers was to promote new perspectives and approaches in the study of forced and free migration and their impact on the society. By bringing scholars together from various parts of the world - senior scholars as well as new promising talents - they wanted to stimulate exchange of ideas, set up new networks and strengthen existing ones.

Some questions that were answered during the conference were:

• What are the legacies of slavery and indentured labour in social, economic, cultural and political fields?
• How did post-slavery identity formation occur in different parts of the world in general?

• What has been the psychological impact of slavery and indentured labour?
• How are transnational identities developing in the world today?
• How is the process of identification related to the imaginary relation with the country of origin and with other 'partners in distress' in the Diaspora?
• In the case of the second migration or the twice Diaspora, what is perceived as country of origin? In other words, what kind of homeland perspectives do people have and what impact will this have on their relation with the former homeland?
• In which ways did the various groups adapt to the new environment? What has been the policy or attitude of the receiving countries or societies?
• How are localizing processes ('Creolization') expressed in migrant cultures?
• What kind of transnational ties exist among descendants of immigrants in the Caribbean? Are alternative transnational identities in the Caribbean real or imagined?
• How are transnational ties and identities recognized and institutionalized by the State in the former homelands?
• What has been the policy of the countries of origin regarding their former citizens living in the Diaspora?
• How and why are local processes of identity formation related to emotional and practical identification to the countries of origin, and how do these countries feature in these processes?
• Which are the social, economic, cultural and political consequences of migration and Diaspora in modern times?

The participants were invited to review their respective papers and submit them to the organizers of the conference. Some presenters opted to not publish their papers for various reasons. The conference organizers then selected from the available papers and these were grouped according to topics. As a result, four volumes are now in the publication planning stage.

The first one is Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Historical and Contemporary Issues in Suriname and the Caribbean, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine, Cheryl White and Rauica Mahase. The second one is The Legacy of Indian Indenture: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Migration and Diaspora, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Hans Ramsoedh. The third book is titled Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora: Past and Present, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Radica Mahase. The last one is on a neglected area of the Indian Diaspora and is titled Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora: Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed and Lomarsh Roopnarine.

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