Arunima Datta

Fleeting Agencies (eBook, PDF)

A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya

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Produktbeschreibung

Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009032360
• Artikelnr.: 70912618

Autorenporträt

Arunima Datta is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of North Texas. She is the author of the multiple award-winning book Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021), which received the Sara A. Whaley Award from the National Women's Studies Association, the Gita Chaudhuri Award from the Western Association of Women Historians and the Stansky Award from the North American Conference of British Studies. Her earlier work on the history of travelling ayahs in Britain has also won the Carol Gold Award. Her recent book, Waiting on Empire: History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (2023) was recently published by Oxford University Press. She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Her works have appeared in several scholarly journals, public history journals and magazines, and on BBC4.

Inhaltsangabe

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.