Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour (eBook, PDF)

The South Asian Working Class in British Malaya
Redaktion: Sundara Raja, Sivachandralingam; Raymond, Shivalinggam

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000918205
• Artikelnr.: 68281763

Autorenporträt

Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja is a Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia Shivalinggam Raymond is a research assistant in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by the Editors
Ideation: Historiographical, Methodological, and Philosophical
Chapter 1: Repurposing Colonialism: Historical Intellectuality,
Postcolonial/Decolonial Encounter and the Colonial Labour History in
Malaysia
Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja and Shivalinggam Raymond
Chapter 2: Colonialism's Postcoloniality/Coloniality, Historical
Epistemology, and a Case for Malaysian South Indian Labour Historiography
Shivalinggam Raymond
Historical Discussions
Chapter 3: Global Colonial Economy, South Indian Labour Immigration, and
British Colonial Institutions and Practices: A Historical Perspective
Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja
Chapter 4: The Inception and Internal Workings of the Tamil Immigration
Fund in British Malaya, 1907-1938
Pushpavalli A. Rengasamey
Chapter 5: Towards the Interaction between the Chettiar Financial
Capitalist and the South Indian Working-Class in British Malaya
Ummadevi Suppiah
Chapter 6: Indian Agents of the Government of India and the Conception of a
Transnationalist Context of the South Indian Labourers of Malaya
M. Utaman Raman
Chapter 7: Colonial Exigencyand Labour Self-Agency: Colonial Policy, Labour
Agricultural Land Settlement, and South Indian Response from the 1900s to
the 1930s Great Depression
Thivya Ranie
Epilogue
Bibliography