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020			_a9781108837585
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000104 _d: 20/01/2024
082			_a331.409 DAT
100			_a Datta, Arunima.
245			_aFleeting Agencies _b: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya. _c/ Arunima Datta.
260			_a, United Kingdom _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2021.
300			_axvii, 240 pages _c: 24cm.
365			_b1195
520			_aFleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration, interacted with other migrants and negotiated colonial laws. This is the first study of Indian coolie women in British Malaya to date. In exploring the politicization of labour migration trends and gender relations in the colonial plantation society in British Malaya, the author foregrounds how the migrant Indian 'coolie' women manipulated colonial legal and administrative perceptions of Indian women; their gender-prescriptive roles, relations within patriarchal marriage institutions, and even the emerging Indian national independence movement in India and Malaya. All this, to ensure their survival, escape from unfavourable relations and situations, and improve their lives. The book also introduces the concept of situational or fleeting agency, which contributes to further a nuanced understanding of agency in the lives of Indian coolie women.
650			_aHistory
650			_aMalaya
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aIndigenous women
700			_aArunima Datta
942			_cBOOK
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