About the South Asian Diaspora Project

The focus of this application is on the complex web of relationships that characterized the migration of indentured labor from the Indian subcontinent to distant parts of the world. The basic objective of this application is to illustrate specific related factors such as

  1. Significant aspects of British colonialism in the Indian subcontinent.
  2. Changing structures of power in the areas being colonized (the subcontinent and the various colonial destinations of indentured labor).
  3. Specific historical features of each colony where South Asians were indentured. In the case of indentured labor in British Guyana and Trinidad, the relationship between indentured Indians and Africans leads into a consideration of the institution of slavery and its impact on Africa and the Americas (this will link into a whole component on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including data on numbers of people transported, regions and destinations-under construction).

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