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Convicts in the Indian Ocean

Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53

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  1. Clare Anderson

    1. Economic and Social History, University of Leicester, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Convict Labour and Colonial Expansion

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 1-11

  3. ‘The Most Desperate Characters in all India’? The Origins of Transportation in the South Asian Context

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 12-33

  4. Punishment, Labour and Reform: the Organisation of the Convict Workforce

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 34-58

  5. Violent and ‘Everyday’ Forms of Resistance: Convict Responses to Transportation

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 59-84

  6. The Socio-economic Integration of Convicts

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 85-110

  7. The End of Transportation and the Liberation of the Convicts

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 111-123

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 125-192
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About this book

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, it is shown how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric.

Reviews

'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

Authors and Affiliations

  • Economic and Social History, University of Leicester, UK

    Clare Anderson

About the author

Clare Anderson is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Convicts in the Indian Ocean

  • Book Subtitle: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53

  • Authors: Clare Anderson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596542

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-76112-0Published: 27 January 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59654-2Published: 27 January 2000

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 192

  • Topics: Asian History, Economic History, Prison and Punishment, Modern History

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