On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 6:44 AM Ra Jesh via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
> On a completely different tack, I'm reading *The Cane Cutter's Song by > Raphael Confiant*, discovered the world of immigrant Tamils into colonial > Carribean countries. As a part-Tamilian, it is humbling that I know so > little about this branch of diasporic Tamils. Hope to finish it by the year > end. > Ah, the topic of the Indian diaspora is one of my idée fixes. Every single country I have traveled in (and the count is coming up on three dozen) has had a South Asian presence for at least a 100 years. After my trips I try to find out more about how they got there. Some books I have come across on the topic (some are still in my TBR stack): Chalo Jahaji by Brij V. Lal. It was my introduction to indentured labor (Girmitiyas). In 2004 or so the Ministry of External Affairs produced a website and a report with brief histories of how the diaspora settled in various parts of the world. The website, sadly, is no more. But you can find a copy of it in archive.org <https://web.archive.org/web/20180112070726/http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/contents.htm> . India Moving: A History of Migration By Chinmay Tumbe. A great book in theory, but sadly the body of the book itself barely scratches the surface. The good bits of this book are the references section in the back with pointers to studies and books to follow up on. Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur. Most of the works mentioned above deal with the movement of men. This is one of the exceptions that looks at the migration from the perspective of women. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
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