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FLEETING AGENCIES
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Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
TABLES
FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
NOTES ON THE TERM "COOLIE"
SITUATING THE HISTORY OF COOLIE WOMEN
SITUATIONAL AGENCY: (RE)CONCEIVING AGENCY
FINDING AND NARRATING A HISTORY OF COOLIE WOMEN
CHARTING UNCHARTED HISTORIES
1 COOLIE WOMEN IN THE EMPIRE'S RUBBER GARDEN: HISTORICAL AND CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND
THE LABOR CONNECTION BETWEEN INDIA AND MALAYA
NEED FOR COOLIE WOMEN ON ESTATES IN MALAYA
ECONOMIC CONCERNS OF PLANTERS
POLITICAL CONCERNS OF PLANTERS
TENSIONS AMONGST PLANTERS IN MALAYA
ADDRESSING LABOR CONCERNS THROUGH PLANNED GENDERED LABOR RECRUITMENT
COOLIE WOMEN AND CALLS FROM THE EMPIRE'S RUBBER GARDEN
(RE)CONCEIVING INDIAN COOLIE WOMEN'S MIGRATION HISTORY
2 "TAPPING" RESOURCES: (RE)FIGURING THE LABOR OF COOLIE WOMEN ON ESTATES
PRODUCING AND REPRODUCING LABOR
PRODUCING LABOR
Weeding
Tapping
Factory Work
REPRODUCING LABOR
ASSESSING "DEPENDENCE" AND "DEPENDENT" IMAGES OF COOLIE WOMEN
COOLIE WOMEN, LABOR STRIKES, AND RIOTS
COOLIE WOMEN AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH ESTATE HIERARCHIES
REMEMBERING COOLIE WOMEN'S "IDENTITIES" AND CONTRIBUTIONS ON ESTATES
3 MANAGING "PARTNERSHIPS": DOMESTICITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ENDEAVORS
THE COOLIE HOUSEHOLD: SPATIALITIES OF VIOLENCE
COLONIAL DESIGNS FOR COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS
COMPLICATED REALITIES OF COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS
VARIOUS DEPICTIONS OF COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS
CONCEIVING THE POSITION OF COOLIE WOMEN IN COOLIE HOUSEHOLDS
COOLIE WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE
4 NEGOTIATING INTIMACIES AND MORALITIES: ENTICEMENTS, DESERTIONS, VIOLENCE, AND GENDERED TRIALS
COOLIE WOMEN'S INTIMATE RELATIONS AND COLONIAL JUDGMENTALISM
IN THE NAME OF SOCIAL ORDER AND NATIONAL HONOR.

(RE)VISIONING COOLIE WOMEN'S INTIMACIES
5 BECOMING "RANIS": COOLIE WOMEN AS RANI OF JHANSI REGIMENT RECRUITS IN WORLD WAR II
FORMATION OF THE RANI OF JHANSI REGIMENT (RJR)
EVERYDAY LIFE FOR INDIANS IN MALAYA UNDER JAPANESE OCCUPATION
NEGOTIATING (IN)SECURITY: ESTATE WOMEN, AGENCY, AND ACTS OF SURVIVANCE
THE REWARDS OF PARTICIPATION
THE RANIS AS A DISCURSIVE RESOURCE FOR INDIAN NATIONALISTS
(UN)COVERING THE HISTORY OF ORDINARY WOMEN IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
CONCLUSION
(RE)THINKING AGENCY
PLACING COOLIE WOMEN IN COLONIAL AND NATIONAL HISTORY
(RE)IMAGINING SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGING "PAST CONTINUITIES"
GLOSSARY
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARCHIVES AND ABBREVIATIONS USED
INDIA
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, AND NEWSPAPERS
ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVES
PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES
INDIA
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
BRITAIN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
DISSERTATIONS
SECONDARY SOURCES
INDEX.