01651nas a2200253   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001000044653001400054653002000068653000900088653001400097653001400111653001400125100001300139700001600152245008200168856011800250300001200368490000700380520099000387022002001377       2013                            d10aIndia10aMauritius10aOral traditions10aFiji10aFolksongs10aGirmitiya10aIndenture1 aA. Kumar1 aR.N. Tiwari00aHistory, memory and culture of indentured migrants: A comparative perspective  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907968316&partnerID=40&md5=21fe793687d1fca023dd90e31989fdbe  a495-5070 v933 aIn the project of writing history of indentured migrants, apart from archival sources, oral traditions and cultural texts are equally vital sources of writing  history from below . The paper focuses on oral traditions, primarily on folksongs collected from the field in India, in order to document pain and suffering of the indentured labourers and also of their families who were left behind in  homeland . In spite of suffering in an alien land, the migrants have kept their cultural heritage alive in the form of rituals, folksongs and folktales. Besides, they were also engaged in a dynamic interaction with the multiethnic societies of the countries of migration resulting in much variation in the cultural heritage (intangible in this case) of these different cultural locations. The paper makes use of a comparative framework for study of similarities of Indenture experience and culture of the "sending" and "receiving" countries primarily through intangible cultural heritage.  a00251569 (ISSN)