This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history, and identity in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. This book aims to document the history, experiences, culture, assimilation, and identity of girmitiya community. It also critically analyses the articulation, projection, and production of their experiences of migration and being immigrant, their narratives, tradition, culture, religion, and memory. It also explores how this labour community formulated into a diaspora community and reconnected/created the home (land) and continues to do so in the wake of globalization and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This book is an attempt to bring the intriguing neglected diverse historical heritage of colonial labour migration and their narratives into the mainstream scholarly debates and discussions in the humanities and the social sciences through the trans- and interdisciplinary perspectives. This book assesses the routes of migration of old diaspora, and it explains the nuances of cultural change among the generations. Although, they have migrated centuries back, absorbed and assimilated, and got citizenships of respective countries of destinations but still their longing for roots, culture, identities, “home”, and the constant struggle is to retain connections with their homeland depicted in their cultural practices, arts, music, songs, folklore and literary manifestations.
Table of Content
1. Introduction.- 2.Language, Literature and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of Malaysian Tamil Diaspora.- 3. Girmit as a Global Labour Regime: Essentials, Expansion and Exceptions.- 4. Tracing the Girmitiya Consciousness in Bhojpuri Folkloric Songs: A Study of Select Bhojpuri Video Songs.- 5. The Poetics of Unsung Chutney Singer Lakhan Karriah of Trinidad.- 6. Poetics of the Crossing (Re)routing Identity in Indenture.- 7. Convicts as the Indentured Labour: Role and Contribution of Indians to the Development Works in the Southeast Asia.- 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage: A Case study of Girmitya in Mauritius.- 9. Reality and Illusion about India In Girmitiya literature: A Study on Capildeo Family.- 10. Resurgence of Girmitiya; Journey through Indian Diaspora.- 11. The Girmityas and Power Politics: A Genealogical Analysis of Colonial Fiji.- 12. Relocating cultural identity: Pattern and Conditions of Indian Diaspora in Fiji.- 13. Articulating Experiences and Unterrable sufferings of Girmitiyas in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies.- 14. Indentured Labour Migration from Bombay Presidency: A study of Marathi speaking Community in Mauritius.- 15. Vivid Girmitiya Sacraments: A Study of Ganga and Ganga Talao.- 16. Swadeshi Girmitology: A Critical Study of Eurocentric History of the Indian Indenture System with Indian perspective.
About the author
Neha Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Sajaudeen Chapparban is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Diaspora Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India.
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