The full title of this article published in The Indian Express is “Cambridge University launches first-ever visiting fellowship to study Indian indentured labour history.” Cambridge University's Selwyn College has appointed Guyanese American professor Gaiutra Bahadur as the Ramesh and Leela Narain visiting bye-fellow in Indentureship Studies. Bahadur is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey…
The University of Cambridge has created what is believed to be the first ever visiting fellowship into the study of indentureship, the controversial system that replaced slavery in the British Empire.Selwyn College has appointed Professor Gaiutra Bah
Gaiutra Bahadur is the author of ‘Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture', a major study of the lives of Indian women who became indentured labourers to colonial plantations in the 19th century.
The University of Cambridge s Selwyn College has appointed Guyanese-American Professor Gaiutra Bahadur as the first-ever Ramesh and Leela Narain Visiting Bye-Fellow in Indentureship Studies, allowing her to conduct research on the lives of Indian women indentured labourers to colonial plantations in the 19th century. The Indentureship Studies programme is a collaboration with the Ameena Gafoor Institute, and enables a scholar to spend eight weeks at the university to conduct research.