Title: Convicts in the Indian Ocean
Description: "This book explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work building the infrastructure necessary to fuel the expansion of the sugar industry. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, the book examines the origins of the convicts and their organization as forced labourers. It also shows how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: East Indians, History, Penal colonies, Transportation of Prisoners, Penal transportation
Places: East Indians, Mauritius
Time periods: 19th century