Ashutosh Kumar is a postdoctoral Research Fellow on AHRC 'Becoming Coolies' Project at University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Delhi. He was also Fellow at The Gilder Lehrman Centre for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, Connecticut, and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.

List of figures and maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: indentured emigrants in the literature; 2. Naukari, network and indenture; 3. Regulating indenture; 4. The journey; 5. Agriculture and culture between two worlds; 6. Writing the girmitiya experience; 7. The end of the indenture system; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

"Focuses on the overseas Indians who left their homeland to work on colonial sugar plantations during the 19th and early 20th centuries under the indenture system, introduced in the British Empire subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833"--