Stifled at birth: private emigration from Bombay to British Guiana in the mid-nineteenth century

In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 6, Heft Jul 87

Abstract

Considers the labour problems confronting Guianese planters and their efforts to tap the seemingly inexhaustible source in India. Concludes that the attempt to introduce labour from the Bombay Presidency by private enterprise failed not because of a clash of interests between Bombay mill-owners and colonial planters but purely because the Bombay authorities deplored emigration overseas whatever the economic advantages. (Abstract amended)