The indentured experience: Indian women in colonial Natal

India in Africa Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 55-76

  Govinden, Devarakshanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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