The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not been recordings of the laborers life narratives. It is seven of these audio recordings, made for public broadcast, which form the data for a fine-grained language-analysis to unearth the life-world of indenture. Through the merging of Labov s high-point analysis with Bamberg s positioning analysis, the book focuses on the situated discursive performativity of identities, and draws attention to the complex and at times conflicting positions within the life narratives. Sorting through those positions resulted in the ultimate challenge to the essentially homogenizing current master narrative discourse on who can be classified as an indentured laborer, and what signifies as an indenture experience."

Vols. 1-36, 1914-1949, 1999- issued in separate parts, called sections, e.g. Journal section, Federal Court section, Privy Council section, Allahabad section, Bombay section, etc.

In this book the life style of students staying in big boarding schools and the mutual conflict between general students and students studying with governmental scholarships is depicted. General students, their guardians, teachers and even management committee believed that merit scholars come from lower strata of the community and they spoil the environment of the school. Mostly they used to be the toppers which lead to a feeling of inferiority complex among general students. Due to this the merit scholars used to be rusticated for very small reasons. Sometimes they were rusticated in a planned manner. This was the time when the villages were going through very rapid social and economic change. There was transformation in caste system. People were getting aware about their rights During this time the laws of Zamindan abolition' and 'Land demarcation' were made which has 11 great impact on social and economic development. The author Shri Amitabh Kumar was born at Lucknow the capital of Uttar Pradesh in 1968, in a lower middle class family. Mis father was a clerk at a government office. The author's early schooling was in boardings. Shri Amitabh Kumar, a graduate from Lucknow University, was also actively involved in politics. At present he is a railway officer and posted as a Station Manager at Lucknow station. Before this he has worked as Chief Controller and Assistant Commercial Manager in railways.

The age of imperialism ushered in a new phenomenon of large-scale organized migration of labourers through the systems of slavery and indenture, which were devised to feed the colonial political-economy. Another feature of such migrations was that it led to the permanent settlement of the uprooted African and Asian labourers in the new lands. These developments, in the long run, intertwined the histories of the ‘ruler’ and the ‘ruled’, the so-called ‘civilized’ and the ‘uncivilized’ along with the people from various continents, thus giving rise to plural societies. The narratives, however, remained dominated by the colonial legacies and frames of reference. Today such historical colonial narratives are being challenged and clarified through multi-disciplinary academic engagements. The authors in this volume take gender as a prominent analytical category and raise new questions and understandings in the way we conceptualize, document and write about gendered migrations in the diaspora. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.