First Person Singular? North Indian Migrant Narratives From the Era of Indenture

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Analysis uncovers personal accounts of indentured labor in North India, indicating insights beyond traditional archives.

Migrant self-writing highlights unique personal experiences from the indenture system, which is often overlooked in macro-histories.
Two autobiographies, one from a laborer in Fiji and another in Suriname, reveal the complex subjectivities of North Indian migrants.
While these narratives provide crucial insights, they often center on themes of suffering and coercion rather than broader narratives.
Such self-narratives are limited as they primarily reflect the views of individual historical agents, not collective experiences.

Anand A. Yang (2025) studied this question.

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