This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women who are constantly faced with race
gender caste and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations but
who are also armed with latent links to the women's abolition movements in the homeland. Also
examining their post-indenture life it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in
India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society a persisting backdrop to the huge
19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from
India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured
Indian women's cries degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control
impacted their social organization and its legacy.The book owes its origins to the 2017
centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system
of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.
