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Coolies, capital, and colonialism : studies in Indian labour history
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Coolies, capital, and colonialism : studies in Indian labour history

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Published for the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.

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Introduction / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Working across the seas : Indian maritime labourers in India, Britain, and in between, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher
The brickmakers' strikes on the Ganges Canal in 1848-1849 / Jan Lucassen
On the move : circulating labour in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial India / Ian J. Kerr
Mobility and containment : the voyages of South Asian seamen, c. 1900-1960 / Ravi Ahuja
Power structure, discipline and labour in Assam tea plantations during colonial rule / Rana P. Behal
"Following custom?" : representations of community among Indian immigrant labour in the West Indies, 1880-1920 / Prabhu P. Mohapatra
Masculinity, respect, and the tragic : themes of proletarian humor in contemporary industrial Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami
Stretching labour historiography : ideas from South Asia / Willem van Schendel
War on the shopfloor / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.

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