Nirajan Bohora

Migration, Displacement, and Identity Transformation in Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

This paper examines the interaction between migration, displacement and identity transformation in the context of the nineteenth and early twentieth century migration of Indians as coolies to the Caribbean and in the light of Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. It argues that indenture was not jus...