Neha Hui
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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Mill also opposed unfree labor on a very deep philosophical ground in his work on liberty.
He argued that indentured labor, because it resulted in loss of freedom, actually made contracts meaningless.
Just to clarify, it's not that most people were from Dalit backgrounds, but then a significant number were.
I think about a third that came out from my research.
There were people from other castes as well.
There were people who were from agricultural castes, there were people from high caste as well.
Now, no matter where they were in the caste hierarchy,
In India, their lives would have been structured very much by gender and caste norms.
So just to tell the listeners a little bit about what we mean by the caste system.
In India, when the indentured workers came, the system of caste hierarchy would be a very structured system that would deem some people or groups, varnas, superior to others.
And people who were at the bottom of the caste hierarchy were
They would live really difficult lives of material deprivation, having no access to educational institutions, locked in really bad quality, unskilled labour.
People of lower caste were considered so polluting that anyone who, if someone of the higher caste saw them,
let alone touch them, they would be defiled.
So people lived lives of physical segregation.
Inter-dining was not allowed.
Inter-marriage was not allowed.
And the gender norms were particularly difficult for women of higher caste, but then
For most people, the caste structure was very strong and prohibitive.
In the plantation colonies, not that caste completely disappeared, but it didn't exist in the same way.
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