Indian labour Immigration and British labour policy in nineteenth-century Ceylon

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 575-602

  Wenzlhuemer, Roland ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR POLICY; LABOR SUPPLY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PLANTATION; WAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34247272534     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X06002538     Document Type: Article

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