What is it about?
This essay looks at the history of boatmen in eastern India under colonialism. It focuses on their work conditions which was defined by both economic and ecological factors under which they worked.
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Why is it important?
One of the few articles that brings labour history to late 18th and early 19th centuries of colonial India.
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This page is a summary of: Contract, Work, and Resistance: Boatmen in Early Colonial Eastern India, 1760s–1850s, International Review of Social History, December 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s002085901400039x.
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