Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture - Gaiutra Bahadur - Google Books

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In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and…