Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on Contributors

pp v-v

Frontispiece

pp vi-vi

Preface

pp 1-6

Introduction

pp 7-20

Working Across the Seas: Indian Maritime Labourers in India, Britain, and in Between, 1600–1857

pp 21-46

The Brickmakers' Strikes on the Ganges Canal in 1848–1849

pp 47-84

On the Move: Circulating Labour in Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial India

pp 85-110

Mobility and Containment: The Voyages of South Asian Seamen, c. 1900–1960

pp 111-142

Power Structure, Discipline and Labour in Assam Tea Plantations during Colonial Rule

pp 143-172

“Following Custom”? Representations of Community among Indian Immigrant Labour in the West Indies, 1880–1920

pp 173-202

Masculinity, Respect, and the Tragic: Themes of Proletarian Humor in Contemporary Industrial Delhi

pp 203-228

Stretching Labour Historiography: Pointers from South Asia

pp 229-262

DOCUMENT

pp 263-263

Editorial introduction

pp 263-264

War on the Shopfloor

pp 265-278

Select Bibliography

pp 279-286