Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview: Indian Indentured Women as Human Agency

Chapter 2 Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi : Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860–1900

Chapter 3 Conceiving the Coolie Woman: Indentured Labour, Indian Women and Colonial Discourse

Chapter 4 Female Indentured Labor in Suriname: For Better or for Worse?

Chapter 6 Kunti’s Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations

Chapter 7 Kunti, Lakshmibhai and the “Ladies”: Women’s Labour and the Abolition of Indentured Emigration from India

Chapter 8 Fallen Through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women Against Indentured Labour Emigration

Chapter 9 Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora

Chapter 10 “Time to Show Our True Colors”: The Gendered Politics of “Indianness” in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Chapter 11 Reflexivity and the Diaspora: Indian Women in Post-Indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius and South Africa

Chapter 12 The Indo-Fijian Woman’s Story: Violence Against Women