Passages of ink: Decoding the Natal indentured records into the Digital Age
In every British colony that received indentured workers from India, officials recorded personal and social details for identifying the arriving migrants. In Natal, 152,184 migrants were inscribed into such lists between 1860 and 1911. This article traces the history of this set of documents from th...
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University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
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| Series: | Kronos |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902014000100003&lng=en&tlng=en |