Suggested Reading

Chalo Jahaji

Dr. Brij Lal

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

The Encyclopedia of Indian diaspora

Edited by Dr. Brij Lal

Inside Indian Indenture

Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai

Coolie Woman - The Odyssey Of Indenture

Gaiutra Bahadur

Roots

Alex Haley

A Pilgrimage to the Place of his birth in Guyana

Robert Mahesh

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Indentured!: A Labourer's Journey

Vicki Bismilla

The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora

Lomarsh Roopnarine

The Megacity Secretly Built by Slaves

Ben Anderson, BBC

Cobalt mining in Congo

Blood, Sweat, and Batteries: Inside Congo's Cobalt Mines I Fortune

Father Christopher Hartley shares his experience in the Dominican Republic living alongside sugar cane farm workers

Price of fashion – PBS

Viriah, A real life inspirational story, by Krishna Gubili

Indian indenture in Caribbean – Part 1 of 2

Indian indenture in Caribbean – Part 2 of 2

Plantation slavery in the 18th c. Caribbean

Coolies: How British Reinvented Slavery

Interview with Dr Ashwin Desai : Indian Indenture in South Africa

Harvard University’s Khalil Gibran Muhammad has analyzed how American sugar production cemented slavery within the U.S. economy

Cost of fashion – Undercover stories

Article on Cobalt mining in Washington Post

Article on Cobalt mining in Guardian

Child Labor in the fashion supply Chain

Kafala in middle east

Migrants rights – Exploring Kafala

The plight of domestic workers in Middle East

1912-Legislative Council of India - motion to abolish Indenture

Sarnami: An Indian language born in South America, on the verge of becoming an endangered tongue

Totaram Sanadhya, an Indian in Fiji: A life defined by the indentured labour system and the fight against it

Suggested Readings