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Guyana-born U.S. journalist Bahadur has written a masterly chronicle of the lives of "coolie women" (and also "coolie men"), indentured laborers who were transported from India to the Caribbean from 1838 (i.e., after slavery was outlawed in the British Empire) to 1920, by which time such indentures had ceased. The work focuses on the author's great-grandmother, who, pregnant and alone, sailed from Calcutta to Georgetown, Guyana (fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More