Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART 1: INDENTURE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE CARIBBEAN; 1. Trans-Colonial Migration during East Indian Indentured Servitude in British Guiana and Trinidad; 2. New Perspectives on the Origins of the 'New System of Slavery'; 3. Searching for the Lost Indentured Indians of St. Kitts; 4. The Legacy of Indentured Labour and the Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: A Missed Opportunity?; PART 2: RE-EXAMINING INDENTURE AND THE MIGRATION EXPERIENCE; 5. Elisabeth Bhugwandye Singh: A Surinamese-Guyanese Female Voice in Migration History.
6. Recharging the Ancestral Battery: Physical and Spiritual Return to Bharat Mata7. East Indian Education in Nineteenth-century Trinidad: Social Exclusion or Integration?; PART 3: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS; 8. The Development of Hindustaniness in Suriname: Reconstruction, Mobilization and Integration; 9. Ethnicity and Political Accommodation in Suriname, 1960-2000; PART 4: HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SPIRITUALITY; 10. The Psychological Impact of Indentureship: Then and Now; 11. The Use of Protective Talismans by Indentured Indians and their Descendants, with Reference to Enslaved Africans.