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Author	Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975-
Title	Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.
Publication Info.	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	331.4 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Note	"Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The magician's box -- Ancestral memory -- The women's quarters -- Into dark waters -- Her middle passage -- A new world -- Beautiful woman without a nose -- Gone but not forgotten -- The dream of return -- Every ancestor -- Surviving history.
Subject	Indentured servants -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.
	Guyana -- History -- 20th century.
	Women slaves -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.
	Women, East Indian -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Slave labor -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.
	Women foreign workers -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.
	Women foreign workers -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Brahmans -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Added Title	Odyssey of indenture
ISBN	9780226034423 (cloth : alkaline paper)
	0226034429 (cloth : alkaline paper)
	9780226043388 (e-book)

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