Convicts in the Indian Ocean/ Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53
Anderson,Clare
- 1st.ed.
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
- 208
1. Introduction: Convict Labour and Colonial Expansion 2. The Most Desperate Characters in all India'? The Origins of Transportation in the South Asian Context 3. Punishment, Labour and Reform: the Organisation of the Convict Workforce 4. Violent and 'Everyday' Forms of Resistance: Convict Responses to Transportation 5. The Socio-economic Integration of Convicts 6. The End of Transportation and the Liberation of the Convicts Appendices A. Convict Ships Embarked for Mauritius B. Socio-economic Origins of the Convicts C. Convicts in Mauritius: Demographic Data