Women, Indenture, and Resistance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- ISBN 9780198978602
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The book explores the lives of Indian women migrants in Fiji (1879–1920), focusing on themes like displacement, violence, motherhood, and economic hardship. Set in colonial sugar plantations, it highlights themes of resilience, resistance, challenging stereotypes, and their defiance despite limited choices.
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Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations, the book delves into themes of migration, displacement, colonialism, physical and sexual violence, wife-murder, maternal neglect, madness, and economic hardship—exacerbated by fixed wages and the high cost of living. Employing the framework of minority history and drawing on intersecting theories from colonial, postcolonial, subaltern, and feminist historiography, this study excavates archival fragments from the underbelly of the National Archives of Fiji. It critically engages with the British Colonial Secretary’s Office Minute Papers, Indian Birth, Death, Plantation and General Registers, Supreme Court depositions, and Emigration Passes to interrogate the power dynamics, contradictions, and silences embedded in these colonial records. Throughout, the book challenges dominant portrayals of indentured women as passive or victimised. Instead, it brings to light minute yet powerful details of women’s individual and collective responses to colonial and patriarchal structures. These narratives of trauma, resilience, and resistance offer a vital contribution to the study of indentureship and gender in Fiji.
The interdisciplinary investigation concludes with a personal homage to Jasni, a great-great-grandmother of indenture, whose memory anchors the work in lived history.
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