Chapter 1. Peasants in Girmitiya scholarship
Part I: From rural dweller to plantation labourer
Chapter 2. Migration and agrarian human capital
Chapter 3. Labourers on the plantations
Chapter 4. An embryonic ethnic community
Part II: From labourer to peasant
Chapter 5. The rise of rice peasants
Chapter 6. Homemaking in Suriname
Chapter 7. Ruralisation policy
Part III: From peasant to urban dweller
Chapter 8. The mechanisation of rice farming
Chapter 9. Ethnic and economic politics
Chapter 10. The transition of rice farmers
Conclusion: Transformations of the Girmitiya peasantry.