Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia

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Act III
agrarian transformation
Assam Tea Gardens
Assamese Peasant
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Chinese Headmen
Colonial Administration
colonial asia
colonial capitalism
Colonial Indochina
Coolie Lines
Engagement Bonus
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Filipino Planters
Iloilo City
indentured labour systems in Asia
indentured migration
Indigenous Fijians
Indigo Plantation
labour resistance
Negeri Sembilan
Negros Occidental
Negros Planters
peasantisation
Penal Contract
plantation economic history
plantation labour
Plantation Workforce
proletarianisation
race and labour relations
Rubber Plantations
Tamil Coolies
Tamil Nadu
Tea Gardens
Terres Rouges
Unfree Labour
Unfree Relations
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780714634678
  • Weight: 521g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Dec 1993
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This volume originated in a conference on 'Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia', held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in September 1990. The contributions to this collection focus on the production of rubber, sugar, tea, and several less strategic plantation crops, in colonial Indochina, Java, Malaya, the Philippines, India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Fiji (although geographically anomalous, both the latter are included because of the centrality to their sugar plantations of indentured labour from India).
Henry Berstein, Tom Brass, E. Valentine. Daniel