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Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta (revie...

Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta (revie...

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Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta (review)

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Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta (review)

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Journal of colonialism & colonial history, 2022-12, Vol.23 (3)

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English

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Rather, they were active producers and reproducers of labor on British Malaya's rubber plantations from the first decade of the twentieth century onward, when planters and civil servants began encouraging the recruitment of coolie women to address plantations' skewed sex ratios that alarmed colonial administrations and Indian nationalists alike (38...

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Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta (review)

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2811662368

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2811662368

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1532-5768

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1532-5768

DOI

10.1353/cch.2022.0028

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