Feeding the Girmitiya: Food and Drink on Indentured Ships to the Sugar Colonies

Ashutosh Kumar

doi:10.1525/gfc.2016.16.1.41

RESCUING TASTE FROM THE NATION: OCEANS, BORDERS, AND CULINARY FLOWS

Article Information

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2016.16.1.41

Publication Date

Published online March 14, 2016.

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University of California Press Journals

Print ISSN

1529-3262

Online ISSN

1533-8622

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Author Information

Ashutosh Kumar
Ashutosh Kumar is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of History, Faculty of Arts at University of Leeds. He received his PhD from the Department of History, University of Delhi, and was awarded the Sephis Fellowship for his study of indentured labor migration from North India to the sugar colonies during the nineteenth century. He has published articles in peer-reviewed international journals. His book Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830–1920 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.