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Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean

Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean

Shepherd, Verene A.

Paperback

Caribbean History

ISBN10: 9766401217
ISBN13: 9789766401214
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: Oct 1 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This book continues the ongoing archaeological project of excavating gender-differentiated data on the nineteenth-century post-slavery relocation of bonded labour to the colonial Caribbean. In a broader context, it contributes to that genre of historical writing that focuses on the exercise of social power and authority, through the medium of socio-sexual manipulation, by empowered males over subaltern women. The book combines documentary evidence with a surrounding narrative interpretation in order to highlight the experiences of the young Indian woman, Maharani, who was raped, and died subsequently, on board the ship Allanshaw that sailed from Calcutta to colonial Guyana in 1885. The events on this passage from India should provide further that nineteenth-century labour migration replicated several aspects of the Middle Passage of enslaved Africans, although it was never allowed to reach slavery's brutal limits.

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