Convicts in the Indian Ocean : Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53 - C. Anderson

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Convicts in the Indian Ocean

Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53

By: C. Anderson

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Hardcover | 27 January 2000 | Edition Number 1

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When the British took control of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius soon after the abolition of the slave trade, they were faced with a labour-hungry and potentially hostile Franco-Mauritian plantocracy. This book explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work building the infrastructure necessary to fuel the expansion of the sugar industry. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, the book examines the origins of the convicts and their organization as forced labourers. It also shows how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric.

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'Dr Anderson has written a scintillating, intelligent and readable book...' - M.N. Pearson, Lennox Head, Australia, The Northern Mariner

'Clare Anderson's book is the first detailed study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Mauritian history - the importation of convicts from India in the early 19th century - but it is also much more than this. Dr Anderson does an admirable job in placing the Mauritius convict experience within a wider theoretical and historical context...the convict lives which [she] has painstakingly recreated make this history a riveting read. She has the rare skill of combining academic precision with the ability to tell a good story.' - Mauritian International

'Overall, the work is concise, coherent and cogent...' - Patricia Kennedy, International Journal of Maritime History

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Preface	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Glossary	p. xi
Introduction: Convict Labour and Colonial Expansion	p. 1
'The Most Desperate Characters in all India'? The Origins of Transportation in the South Asian Context	p. 12
Punishment, Labour and Reform: the Organisation of the Convict Workforce	p. 34
Violent and 'Everyday' Forms of Resistance: Convict Responses to Transportation	p. 59
The Socio-economic Integration of Convicts	p. 85
The End of Transportation and the Liberation of the Convicts	p. 111
Appendices
Convict Ships Embarked for Mauritius	p. 127
Socio-economic Origins of the Convicts	p. 129
Convicts in Mauritius: Demographic Data	p. 135
Notes	p. 138
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 188
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Convicts in the Indian Ocean

Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53

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