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Part 1 The Indian labour diaspora - an overview: the scale and theoperation of regulated migration; recruiters and recruits; the voyage;life in the colonies. Part 2 Experiences of recruitment and the voyageoverseas: the first wave of Indian indentured migrants 1834-1841;experiences of recruitment 1842-1910; settlers, returnees andrecruiters; experiences of the voyage. Part 3 The working lives ofindentured Indians: work experiences during the transition from slaveryto indenture; complaints of new immigrants; strategies of control andresistance involving ex-indentured immigrants; the infirm and theinsubordinate. Part 4 The personal lives of Indian migrants: themarital life of overseas Indians; family relationships under indenture;the pull of home and family - migrants' efforts to return; letters fromrelatives left behind. Part 5 New horizons - the world beyondindenture: new providers - relatives and remittances; new lifestyles -property, landownership and family regroupment; new diasporas -re-migrations of overseas Indians; new communities - experiences ofovrseas-born Indians.