Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture

Farzana Gounder is a linguist and Deputy Head of School (Research) at IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute. Her research area is oral nar-ratives of indenture and their role in the collective memory. Amba Pande is with the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, School of Inter national Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research area is the Indian diaspora and international migration. Kalpana Hiralal is Professor in History in the School of Social Sciences at Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her PhD dissertation focused on the South Asian Diaspora to Africa in the context of settlement, trade and identity formation. Maurits S. Hassankhan is a historian and senior lecturer/researcher at the Anton de Kom University, Suriname. He has organized several inter national conferences on slavery and Indentured labour and diaspora.

• Introduction Part 1:  Perspectives from the Diaspora on   Indentured Migration  1. ‘A Most Callous Indifference’: Sukhdei’s Story 2. Gender and Resistance in Indian Indenture Life Stories: Oral History and the National Stage of Memorialization 3. Indentured Hindustani Women in Suriname Part 2: Perspectives from the ‘Home’ Country on   Indentured Migration  4. Indentured Women and Hindi Print-Public Sphere  in Early Twentieth Century India 5. Wives Across the Seas – ‘Left behind’ and ‘Forgotten’? Gender and Migration in the Indian Ocean Region 6. Gender, Labour and Resistance: Mapping the Lives of Indentured Women in Natal, South Africa 1860-1914 Part 3:  Gender, Sexuality and Agency  7. Unsettling Diasporas – Negotiation of Identities  and Subversion of Categories: Asian Women in  and Beyond Slavery at Mauritius, the Cape  and Sri Lanka 8. Migrant Women Multiterritoriality Processes in  Transnational Marriage Condition 9. Marriage, Concubinage and Extramarital  Relations in Suriname and the Caribbean: Continuity and Change