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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lomarsh roopnarine”
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  • The Indian Caribbean

    Migration and Identity in the Diaspora

    by Lomarsh Roopnarine ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies AssociationThis book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the people and the ways in which they define themselves and the world around them. Through oral history and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873

    by Lomarsh Roopnarine ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark’s solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the recruitment, transportation, plantation labor, re-indenture, repatriation, remittances and abolition of Indian indentured experience on the island. In doing so, Roopnarine has produced a compelling ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora

    Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies

    Edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed, Lomarsh Roopnarine ...
    This is the fourth publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname. The core of the book is based on a conference panel which focused specifically on the experience of Muslim with indentured migrants and their ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • The Legacy of Indian Indenture

    Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Migration and Diaspora

    Edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine, Hans Ramsoedh ...
    This book is the second publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.The articles are grouped in four sections.Section one concentrates on indenture in the Caribbean and the IndianOcean and includes four ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora

    Past and Present

    Edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine, Radica Mahase ...
    This book is the third publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was organised in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname. ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour

    Historical and Contemporary Issues in Suriname and the Caribbean

    Edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine, Cheryl White, Radica Mahase ...
    This book is the first publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname. ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

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  • Empire's Garden

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    Series series Radical perspectives
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  • Routes to Slavery

    Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Edited by David Eltis, David Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
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    The Making of Calcutta

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    Transnational networks and changing identities

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