Literature in the Postcolony

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Coolie Woman: Reading the Journey of Indenture from India to Guyana – Anjali Chandawarkar

In the context of this course, my cultural map traces the journey of indentured labour from the East Coast of India to Guyana (or British Guiana, as it was known earlier) in the Caribbean. I have based it entirely on Gaiutra Bahadur’s book, Coolie Woman: An Odyssey of Indenture (2013). Bahadur’s work makes visible an…

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