Counting House
Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel. Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village are seduced by a recruiter's persuasive talk of easy work and plentiful land. They sign up as indentured laborers to go to British Guiana and discover their harsh fate as "bound coolies" in a country only just emerging from the savage brutalities of slavery. In their problematic encounters with the Afro-Guyanese, hostile to immigrant labor, they confront the truths of their uprooted condition and learn to live with their fate.
- Author
- David Dabydeen
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781845230159
- Genres
- india, fiction
- Release date
- 2005
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