03965nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-67961-2 DE-He213 20251030112901.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240820s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031679612 978-3-031-67961-2 10.1007/978-3-031-67961-2 doi F1409.6-1414.2 HBJK bicssc HIS024000 bisacsh NHK thema Gowricharn, Ruben. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82578 The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname [electronic resource] : Agrarian and Economic Transformations in a Plantation Society / by Ruben Gowricharn. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIII, 287 p. 30 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. Peasants in Girmitiya scholarship -- Part I: From rural dweller to plantation labourer -- Chapter 2. Migration and agrarian human capital -- Chapter 3. Labourers on the plantations -- Chapter 4. An embryonic ethnic community -- Part II: From labourer to peasant -- Chapter 5. The rise of rice peasants -- Chapter 6. Homemaking in Suriname -- Chapter 7. Ruralisation policy -- Part III: From peasant to urban dweller -- Chapter 8. The mechanisation of rice farming -- Chapter 9. Ethnic and economic politics -- Chapter 10. The transition of rice farmers -- Conclusion: Transformations of the Girmitiya peasantry. This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to peasants and finally to urban dwellers. The author argues that it was the Girmitiya peasants who had made greater contributions to developing the ethnic community over the labourers of whom about one-third returned to British India. The work covers the history of how the peasants institutionalised their practice, changed the physical landscape and integrated economically and politically as an ethnic group in their newly adopted homeland. Furthermore, the author presents arguments to demonstrate that Girmitiya peasants survived the plantation labour and peasant life due to their knowledge and skills of agrarian cultivation, known as agrarian human capital. The scholarly literature about the labour migration from British India has focused heavily on the fate of the labourers. Consequently, the history of the Girmitiya peasants as well as the cultural heritage they have produced has been grossly neglected. This book purports to fill this void by telling the history of Girmitiya peasants in Suriname, a Caribbean society adjacent to former British Guyana. Latin America History. 76516 Cultural property. Agriculture. 68079 Labor. 60901 History. Imperialism. 45663 Latin American History. 76518 Cultural Heritage. Agriculture. 68079 Labor History. 75020 Imperialism and Colonialism. 71228 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031679605 Printed edition: 9783031679629 Printed edition: 9783031679636 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67961-2 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 62582 62582