TY - JOUR
KW - India
KW - Mauritius
KW - Oral traditions
KW - Fiji
KW - Folksongs
KW - Girmitiya
KW - Indenture
AU - A. Kumar
AU - R.N. Tiwari
AB - In 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.
BT - Man in India
LA - English
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: Serials Publications
N2 - In 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.
PY - 2013
SP - 495
EP - 507
T2 - Man in India
TI - History, memory and culture of indentured migrants: A comparative perspective
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907968316&partnerID=40&md5=21fe793687d1fca023dd90e31989fdbe
VL - 93
SN - 00251569 (ISSN)
ER -