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- Title
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya.
- Authors
Wan, Darren
- Abstract
In Fleeting Agencies, Arunima Datta critiques this trope by vividly presenting and analyzing evidence that Tamil coolie women were not just hapless victims dependent upon the migrating men they accompanied. Datta tracks coolie women's motivations for enlisting in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR), the only women's regiment in Subhas Chandra Bose's anti-British and pro-Japanese Indian National Army. In the third chapter, Datta focuses on the domestic space of plantation coolie lines and critiques the tropes of the abusive coolie man and the victimized coolie woman as products of the normative Victorian morality against which coolies' daily lives were judged.
- Subjects
MALAY Peninsula; INDIAN women (Asians); BRITISH colonies; SOCIAL history; SEX ratio; ADMINISTRATION of British colonies; NORMATIVITY (Ethics)
- Publication
Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1532-5768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cch.2022.0028