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The Faces of History - Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. By Gaiutra Bahadur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xxi, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781849042772 (cloth). - Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. By Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. xii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780253012586 (cloth).

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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. By Gaiutra Bahadur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xxi, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781849042772 (cloth).
Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. By Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. xii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780253012586 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 208 - 211
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