Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed, Inside Indenture: A South African Story, 1860-1914

Exceptionally skilful use of biographical sketches

Abstract

This appropriately titled and beautifully written book explores the lives of 152 266 indentured labourers that came from India to work on the sugar plantations of Natal over the period 1860 to the end of indenture in July 1911. They were part of approximately 1,3-million indentured Indians that went to fourteen British colonies over the period 1838-1916.