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9781009415491
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009415492
ISBN-13
9781009415491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9073168899

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Book Title
Fleeting Agencies : a Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Asia / India & South Asia, Economics / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Author
Arunima Datta
Book Series
Global South Asians Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.6 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Reviews
'Fleeting Agencies is a major contribution to the history of global migration. With creativity and nuance, Arunima Datta recovers from archival fragments the experiences of Indian women workers on the plantations of colonial Malaya. This book will be widely admired across fields - and admired as much for its methodological sophistication as for its moving and engaging narrative.' Sunil Amrith, Yale University
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
331.411734
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Figures and Diagrams; Introduction; 1. Coolie Women in the Empire's Rubber Garden: Historical and Contextual Background; 2. 'Tapping' Resources: (Re) Figuring the Labour of Coolie Women on Estates; 3. Managing 'Partnerships': Domesticity and Entrepreneurial Endeavours; 4. Negotiating Intimacies and Moralities: Enticements, Desertions, Violence and Gendered Trials; 5. Becoming 'Ranis': Coolie Women as Rani Jhansi Regiment Recruits in WWII; Conclusion; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index.
Synopsis
In Fleeting Agencies, the author revises and decolonizes the history of transnational female plantation labour and acknowledges the agency of women workers. This is the first book to examine the history of Indian coolie women who migrated to British Malaya and contributed to the making of the Rubber Empire., Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration, interacted with other migrants and negotiated colonial laws. This is the first study of Indian coolie women in British Malaya to date. In exploring the politicization of labour migration trends and gender relations in the colonial plantation society in British Malaya, the author foregrounds how the migrant Indian 'coolie' women manipulated colonial legal and administrative perceptions of Indian women; their gender-prescriptive roles, relations within patriarchal marriage institutions, and even the emerging Indian national independence movement in India and Malaya. All this, to ensure their survival, escape from unfavourable relations and situations, and improve their lives. The book also introduces the concept of situational or fleeting agency, which contributes to further a nuanced understanding of agency in the lives of Indian coolie women.
LC Classification Number
HD4875

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