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Class, Capitalism and Colonialism - Professor John Holmwood
This session discusses inequality and social change in modern society. It sets out how modern society is distinguished from earlier types of society and comes to be understood by sociologists as capitalist modernity with class as a central category of analysis. This displaces the fundamental role of colonialism in modernity with two consequences. The first is that there is difficulty in understanding the continued reproduction of structures that are otherwise identified as being pre-modern. The second is the increasing discrepancy between what is held to be the objective reality of class and everyday understandings of inequality which seem not to map directly onto it. This discrepancy is frequently assigned to an unfortunate intrusion of subjective meanings associated with ‘identity’ - usually, those of gender, race and ethnicity - without either reflection on the implicit failure of class analysis, or a structural explanation of the identities deemed to be problematically subjective. In this session, I will suggest that a proper appreciation of the role of colonialism in the emergence and development of modernity would allow us to understand class and other inequalities differently.
Resources
Oliver Cromwell Cox - Global Social Theory website. globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/oliver-cromwell-cox/
Marx: Colonialism and Capitalism - John Holmwood on Connected Sociologies website. thesociologicalreview.org/projects/connected-sociologies/curriculum/modern-social-theory/marx-colonialism-class-capitalism/
Weber: Religion, Nation and Empire - Gurminder K. Bhambra on Connected Sociologies website. thesociologicalreview.org/projects/connected-sociologies/curriculum/modern-social-theory/weber-religion-nation-empire/
World Inequality Report wir2018.wid.world/
Questions for discussion
1. How do sociologists distinguish between traditional and modern society?
2. What do sociologists see as the main features of capitalism?
3. Why does European colonialism continue to matter?
Thiss lecture is part of the Connected Sociologies module on the Politics of Inequality. Read more and download lesson plans here: thesociologicalreview.org/projects/connected-sociologies/curriculum/politics-inequality/
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Varieties of Empires and Colonialism - Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
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Empires and nation states are typically understood as two distinct types of political organization. There are states, it is claimed, that are empires and there are others that are nation states. Nation states tend to be associated with the emergence of modernity and a system of empires with the world that modernity displaces. Presenting empires and nation states as distinct political entities, ...
Inequities of Caste - Professor Meena Dhanda
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar explains caste as graded inequality, which began with endogamous practices of the ritually ranked highest group (Brahmans) closing others out, and through imitation led to the formation of other closed caste groups. The argument that the alien origins of the term ‘caste’ is responsible for introducing hereditary and hierarchical elements into non-hierarchical occupational grou...
The Political Economic Governance of the Spanish Empire - Dr Julia McClure
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At the end of the fifteenth century Western Europeans breached their Atlantic seal and initiated a new era of global expansion. They were driven, in part, by the competition for commodities, especially spices and precious metals, and the desire to circumvent Muslim traders of goods from the East Indies. When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they encountered a part of the world that previously...
Taxation and Governance in Colonial Indonesia - Dr Maarten Manse
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One of the many ways in which colonial powers attempted to exploit colonized populations was through taxation. How did colonial officials organize taxation in the confusing and precarious context of colonial governance and administration? This lecture explores colonial Indonesia in the nineteenth and twentieth century to unveil how taxation in fact played a pivotal role in shaping governance an...
The Cromwellian Land Settlement of Ireland - Professor David Brown
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The Cromwellian Land Settlement of Ireland, devised during the late 1650s, is usually seen as an extension of England’s Tudor and Stuart colonisations of the Irish provinces of Munster and Ulster respectively. While true on one level, in that a deepening process of colonisation did take place, this interpretation is an oversimplification of what happened. Under Cromwellian rule, Ireland became ...
Ocean Legalities - Professor Renisa Mawani
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Law has conventionally been tied to land, territory, and nation states. What does its history look like from the sea, from above and below the waterline, and from the decks of ocean-going vessels? What counts as law in maritime worlds and how have ocean legalities shaped an international legal order as we know it today? Focused largely on the Indian Ocean, but borrowing from other ocean worlds,...
The Case of the Ottoman Empire - Professor Fatma Müge Göçek,
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The Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) was the longest-lasting Muslim empire contiguously ruling at the height of its power over the three continents of (Eastern) Europe, (Western) Asia, and (North) Africa. This non-Western political formation met its demise along with the Austria-Hungarian (1867-1918) and Russian (1721-1917) Empires at the end of World War I (1914-1918). Many nation-states emerged fro...
Ethnic Health Inequalities - Dr Dharmi Kapadia
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Ethnic minority people have poorer health than white people. When we talk about health, this includes physical and mental health conditions as well as general wellbeing. For ethnic minority people, we see inequalities in range of heath conditions as well as poorer access to, and experience of, health services. There are a number of reasons for these differences, including what resources people ...
Seeking Freedom: 'Imagining 18th C. Black Lives in Northern England'
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Opening plenary for the 2023 Connected Sociologies event 'Who do we think we are', which took place in Lancaster University. In this recording, Lela Harris (artist and designer), Geraldine Onek (primary school teacher & co-founder of Lancaster Black History Group) and Imogen Tyler (Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, and executive board member of LBH) discuss their collaborative wor...
Connected Sociologies Summer School 2023: Opening plenary 'Race, Class and "Crises"'
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Opening plenary to the 2023 Connected Sociologies Summer School, which took place in Bsix College in Hackney. In this recording, Adam Elliott-Cooper and Gurminder K. Bhambra discuss race, class and the multiple 'crises' facing us.
Connected Sociologies Summer School 2023: Closing plenary "Surviving Crises"
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Closing plenary for the 2023 Connected Sociologies Summer Schoool, which took place in BSix College in Hackney. In this recording, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Chantelle Lewis and Sivamohan Valluvan discuss how we might survive the many crises we face today.
From Development to Reparations - Gurminder K. Bhambra and Paul Gilbert
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Live recording of one of the morning sessions for our first ever event in Brighton, 'From the Culture Wars to Reparative Histories', held at the Brighthelm Centre. Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, and Project Director for the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project. She is co-author of Colonialism and Modern Social Theory and ...
Contesting the Culture Wars: Opening Plenary - Chantelle Lewis, Alan Lester & Nadya Ali
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Live recording of the opening plenary for our first ever event in Brighton, 'Contesting the Culture Wars', held at the Brighthelm Centre. Chantelle Lewis is a Research Fellow in Black British Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is a public sociologist, broadcaster and event director. Chantelle's research is situated at the intersections of socio-historical analysis; politics, Black feminis...
From the Culture Wars to Reparative Histories: Closing Plenary - Cathy Bergin & Anita Rupprecht
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Live recording of the closing plenary for our first ever event in Brighton, 'From the Culture Wars to Reparative Histories', held at the Brighthelm Centre. Cathy Bergin is a lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her recent work has concentrated on transnational solidarity and reparative history in the context of anti-racism and anti-colonialism. Anita Rupprecht is a lecturer at the University...
The UK’s global economic elite - Prof Arun Advani
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The UK’s global economic elite - Prof Arun Advani
Political Ecology: Reflections from the Global South - Prof Mitul Baruah
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Political Ecology: Reflections from the Global South - Prof Mitul Baruah
Climate Change, Migration, Race: Dr Andrew Baldwin
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Climate Change, Migration, Race: Dr Andrew Baldwin
A Green New Deal? Harpreet Kaur Paul
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A Green New Deal? Harpreet Kaur Paul
Connected Sociologies Summer School: Surviving Society in Conversation with Stella Dadzie
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Connected Sociologies Summer School: Surviving Society in Conversation with Stella Dadzie
Food Shortages: Causes and Policy Implications - Dr Pritam Singh
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Food Shortages: Causes and Policy Implications - Dr Pritam Singh
Exploring the Growth of Charitable Food Aid in the UK - Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite
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Exploring the Growth of Charitable Food Aid in the UK - Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite
Deep Poverty - Dr Daniel Edmiston
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Deep Poverty - Dr Daniel Edmiston
Decolonising Social Science Gurminder Bhambra at BSIS 9Feb2022
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Decolonising Social Science Gurminder Bhambra at BSIS 9Feb2022
Sociologies of Extraction
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Sociologies of Extraction
Plastics and Toxic Colonialism - Prof Alice Mah
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Plastics and Toxic Colonialism - Prof Alice Mah
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire - Max Haiven
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Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire - Max Haiven
Extractivism and Social Movements - Dr Andrea Sempértegui
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Extractivism and Social Movements - Dr Andrea Sempértegui
Channel Crossings: Colonial Histories and Maritime Legacies
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Channel Crossings: Colonial Histories and Maritime Legacies
Borders & Violence - Dr Arshad Isakjee
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Borders & Violence - Dr Arshad Isakjee

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @glps6167
    @glps6167 17 годин тому

    The silver mines in potosi and Zacatecas were not taken over by the Spanish, but found and created by the Spanish

  • @glps6167
    @glps6167 17 годин тому

    "Tenochtitlan had 22 million inhabitants" in 1519 ? You mean to say the Aztec Empire had 22 million inhabitants.

  • @mickcarpenter2963
    @mickcarpenter2963 14 днів тому

    This is a great summary and shows how the analysis of 'racial capitalism' needs to be at the centre of all our social and political analysis, and is often missing even from otherwise 'radical' left analysis. Thank you. Would have nice to have a bibliography of the various sources cited so that people could easily follow up the lecture. But I guess people can Google them.

  • @tonycarton8054
    @tonycarton8054 27 днів тому

    this is brilliant work .I was born /brought in N Ireland ,spent about 45 years in New Zealand ,now back again in NI .I am wishing to trace commonalities in Enclosures in Ireland and New Zealand .Keep up the great work .Slainte / Kia kaha

  • @mmiv37
    @mmiv37 Місяць тому

    Great lecture. I will take the time to fully digest this.

  • @pingaligopal5205
    @pingaligopal5205 Місяць тому

    Nice talk. But no mention of colonial consciousness where the previously colonised persist with the intellectual narratives set by the colonials. The narratives of caste and “religions “ in India is a classic example and one may refer to the works of Balagangadhara and the Ghent School scholars in this regard. She is wrong on Kashmir however with a short term historical perspective only. In the civilizational long term perspective, Kashmir is an integral part of India.

  • @rohitsilva
    @rohitsilva Місяць тому

    Thank you

  • @edbop
    @edbop Місяць тому

    The problem is sociology is it fails to give people the basis of knowledge and understanding that they would need to make a genuinely useful analysis of social change. This creates a situation where they are forced to write a lot of nothing, largely meaningless waffle, such as this videos description. I'd suggest going back to uni and do something like PPE then you'll at least have a basic grasp of the subjects involved. Good luck.

  • @sweethome-dx2ry
    @sweethome-dx2ry Місяць тому

    Great analysis

  • @londonbowcat1
    @londonbowcat1 2 місяці тому

    18:00 glad to hear Happy Valley clarendon. 1768 returned after 11 years so 1757

  • @sayitaintso2900
    @sayitaintso2900 3 місяці тому

    The UK is an awful, terrible country. Have you considered living somewhere else?

  • @auggies
    @auggies 4 місяці тому

    I respectfully ask where is this practiced in the US today?

  • @bindushapillai6554
    @bindushapillai6554 6 місяців тому

    മലയാളത്തിൽ കിട്ടുമോ

  • @AbandonEarth911
    @AbandonEarth911 6 місяців тому

    Workers of all lands unite.

  • @ahsoni
    @ahsoni 6 місяців тому

    One word Islamophobia. More evident now.

  • @malcolmstar8036
    @malcolmstar8036 8 місяців тому

    Thank you. I have been interested in the Levellers and Diggers which I learned about as a young man in the 60’s . I’d not been aware of links between enclosures and slavery I’m particularly interested in discovering the link between the psychological alienation and isolation of the modern person and the history of enclosure. Can you point me in the direction of other sources.

  • @jplj7013
    @jplj7013 8 місяців тому

    Brilliant explanation of shocking events that few people understand.

  • @sachetsofrelish
    @sachetsofrelish 9 місяців тому

    Indenture was a 'development' of the convict assignment system 'pioneered' in Australia, wasn't it?

  • @limbolink5879
    @limbolink5879 10 місяців тому

    brilliant lecture thank you so much!

  • @shannarobinson7550
    @shannarobinson7550 11 місяців тому

    ACTUALLY, the first name you need to know is CLR James and Eric Williams, who wrote about the Haitian Revolution and the belief that British abolished slavery because it was economically necessary to do so, NOT because they were altruistic.

  • @clive373
    @clive373 11 місяців тому

    I wish every person understood this.

  • @strawhatpirates4038
    @strawhatpirates4038 11 місяців тому

    tf is bro yapping about

  • @nishatagore
    @nishatagore 11 місяців тому

    I object to a white woman narrating of what they did to India. She is false and bias. People listen to the Indians.

    • @sachetsofrelish
      @sachetsofrelish 9 місяців тому

      Someone objects to Dr Kaladeen's DNA, which they have a magical power to analyse through video on the internet.

  • @chrisschmitt1931
    @chrisschmitt1931 Рік тому

    People are correct in saying that Israel is not an apartheid state, they are a colonial dispossession state which is worse

  • @tonyaustin4472
    @tonyaustin4472 Рік тому

    This sadly is yet another misleading political polemic conflating two separate historical events; namely the complex British enclosure phenomenon and the oversea’s exploitation of slaves mainly by a relatively small number of the British mercantile. It’s sloppy and it seems to me irresponsible for a lecturer to put this up in such a biased take on separate events. The English enclosures were reactions to multiple separate forces over centuries for example climate changes, plagues, wool prices, draining of fen lands, dissolution of monasteries, development of agricultural machinery and many many more. It’s depressing to see these two really important but largely unconnected events turned into a kind of Marxist alternative truth.

    • @clarkbowler157
      @clarkbowler157 5 місяців тому

      Do you have any proof that enclosure was in fact not an act of violent class suppression? Can you please point me towards some resources?

    • @tonyaustin4472
      @tonyaustin4472 5 місяців тому

      If you would go and look at any authoritative economic agricultural history you’d find out that this lecturer is either biased or lacking any perspective. It wasn’t the enclosures that diminished the number of land owners: it was the landowners who carried out the classic 17th to 19th Century enclosures. The folk who actually farmed the land were a mix of large and small farmers, craftsmen along smallholders. In addition the Lord of the Manor held his or her own parcels of pasture and arable and either employed his own workers or had an arrangement that the other tenants would do it for him. It was an extremely simple system and it worked well for centuries. Problems came about which doomed the Manorial system were many and various as I explained in my other comment, but some parts of England were still unenclosed well into the 19th Century. The small market town where I live wasn’t enclosed till 1844 and not far away from me is a village that remains unenclosed to this day. So what happened to the folk working on the land? First of all they were given plots of land reflecting in size the holdings they held of the Lord. Some did well by that, some struggled with inadequate small plots; what the smallholder lost were the rights of common pasture after the harvest. Some of them developed trades, some went to work for the new enclosed farms, others migrated to towns to work in the new industries that were changing the country from an agricultural economy to an industrial one. Where there was violence it was with the introduction of machinery into the agricultural economy; the draining of vast areas that had been fenland, marshland etc with the resultant disruption to long established local economies based around fishing, thatching, pasturing of cattle and sheep in the summer months and the cutting of fodder for the winter. See how nuanced this all is. Forget your Marxist rhetoric: look at this as the endless change of human life. You can’t live in a point of time, some frozen idyl that hasn’t come from somewhere and isn’t going anywhere. I’m talking about the Enclosures here not the atrocity of slavery. The Enclosures were just a small part of our history, just as the coming of the first farmers would have affected the existing hunter gatherer societies. Try and take a balanced view :-) we are never going back to being hunter gatherers nor are we going to un-enclose the agricultural landscape….in fact it’s looking like the fens I live on the edge of are going to end up being re-flooded in order to protect London and the South East from climate change :-)

  • @sarahdawihamed5360
    @sarahdawihamed5360 Рік тому

    Thank you so much for this great discussion

  • @foodandbeverageservicesja.1185

    Thank you for your historical, and prudent lesson.

  • @magdahomer
    @magdahomer Рік тому

    thank yous! expanding my perspective n mind - grateful for the language and framework

  • @OutsideTheColony
    @OutsideTheColony Рік тому

    Very good talk and my second video where you are in. There is something about colonialism that went over the heads of many and that is psychological colonisation. Resist Ireland as not all is what it seems. :) have some videos on colonialism etc from Irish Traveller world view.

  • @emeryroe2487
    @emeryroe2487 Рік тому

    An excellent reckoning with monstrous violence. Well worth half an hour of your time.

  • @gregoryjames165
    @gregoryjames165 Рік тому

    Fascinating. But who are you to judge Joshua Hinde as evil? How did he treat his family? What did he do for the wider community? How did he treat his friends? Things are rarely black and white. Slavery was a fact all over the globe at the time. The Barbary pirates had enslaved an estimated 15 million White Europeans between 700 - 1800AD many ending in the Ottoman Empire. And let us not forget that once the British Empire left Africa, the Africans brought slavery back and there are now estimated to be 40 million living as slaves there now. Where is the outrage at this? Where is the effort to stop this immense injustice. And though capitalism is creating many many problems, you are wrong about life expectancy which is increasing in the global south because of it. One must not also ignore the fact that 6 billion people in the Global South would not be alive today if it were not for the West's medicines and agricultural technologies which were an inextricable outcome of the capitalist industrial technological civilization

  • @OrwellsHousecat
    @OrwellsHousecat Рік тому

    Seems odd to not heard much said about the other areas from where rich folk come to London (eg middle-east, African). If we're talking oligarchs let's say it

  • @danielnewton6928
    @danielnewton6928 Рік тому

    Really great lecture! Thanks

  • @christinmatthey42
    @christinmatthey42 Рік тому

    🙈 "promosm"

  • @ANOOPTIWARI-pr7wt
    @ANOOPTIWARI-pr7wt Рік тому

    Extremely helpful lecture. I am working on a PhD dissertation around the politics of development, extractivism, the Anthropocene and popular resistance by indigenous people in India. Thank you.

  • @mightymikeamps9317
    @mightymikeamps9317 Рік тому

    Marx was a huge racist!

  • @Aditya-pi8tw
    @Aditya-pi8tw Рік тому

    Main features of decolonization??

  • @mebrahtubeyene8977
    @mebrahtubeyene8977 Рік тому

    how different theories of migration interpreted refugee integration ?

  • @johnconlon9652
    @johnconlon9652 Рік тому

    My own view is that the Decline and Fall of Homo sapiens started with urbanisation, circa 10,000 years ago and may now already be agonal; in a crowd, the psychopathic born scum rise to the top, whilst those with sociopathic tendencies learn to try and join their "superiors". Born in Preston in 1949, in 1973, I interviewed a Psychopath in my final medical Psychiatry exam. Got the diagnosis right and have been interested in personality disorders ever since ... decided not to join so many journeymen psychiatrists, of whom there are even more nowadays. Medicine is now a business, not a vocation. Whenever I meet any of the "Elite", I try and work out where he or she lies on the disorder spectrum; the more money, the worse it gets. And I avoid towns and cities. I enjoyed the talk. Slante. ☘

  • @littlebickley
    @littlebickley Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing your work here. Connections I had not previously made. When will the extraction end? When there is nothing left? How can we even begin to turn this around and win back the earth?

  • @Dacky1989
    @Dacky1989 Рік тому

    Haïti is and always has been a beacon of Justice for the World. Amerikkka's history is a lie and disgusting from George Washington to George Floyd and beyond.

  • @kehindeonakunle7404
    @kehindeonakunle7404 Рік тому

    Great work being done by the two highly acclaimed public intellectuals

  • @Beepassingby
    @Beepassingby Рік тому

    Dr.Gurminder,your work is inspiring.Keep it up👏 the more I read your work,the more convinced I am that this is the way forward for sociology

  • @marinakukso
    @marinakukso Рік тому

    excellent lecture, and thank you for making it so well-produced and publicly available!

  • @governmentsponseredterrorism

    Nazi gov and army invades other countries to steal peoples property then flying off back to London. Still goes onto today. Nazi police in uk is involved in human and drug trafficking. They get communities to nazi spy on their target to forced nazi eugenics and sterilization all to do with racial bias. Whenever the victim speaks out openly they get the Nazi criminals to brainwash and gaslight the victim to deny it’s happening which is anti semetic. Nazi social services and evil NHS are involved in these war crimes abd human right abuses. Still today the British government are colonizing by illegally kidnapping citizens from other countries forcing them into live in britain. The British empire still exists today.

  • @kennysartwork5827
    @kennysartwork5827 Рік тому

    the best definition of "decolonization", the best example is when the colonies of America declared their independence 1776 and wrote the constitution of the United States

  • @GoodnWise
    @GoodnWise Рік тому

    Thank you Prof. Tyler for a brilliant, informative lecture.

  • @SteveSpears-Kuhlah
    @SteveSpears-Kuhlah Рік тому

    6:16

  • @MrShankar123456
    @MrShankar123456 Рік тому

    It would be great for Earth if we could convert 30% of soy bean,rape seed, sunflower 🌻 farms back to forests.These oils have hexane in them and cause inflammation leading to metabolic diseases.Palm oil is crushed directly and no solvents are used and therefore healthier.Palm oil is better for the planets populace because once planted ,it lasts for years,no tilling of land ,and no soil disturbance is needed.For every hectare cultivated,palm oil gives the best returns.Shifting to coconut and palm oils can actually save the environment and is definitely good for health.

  • @jezrsmith7680
    @jezrsmith7680 2 роки тому

    Very good info. The only thing lacking is from what areas in India these indentured labourers came from.

    • @eswaribalan164
      @eswaribalan164 Рік тому

      Mostly from the south of india.

    • @faizalhossen2289
      @faizalhossen2289 10 місяців тому

      @@eswaribalan164. Yes, some from present Tamil Nadu and Andra Pradesh and Maharastra. But, majority from Bihar and UP.