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Judith Misrahi-Barak

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the kala pani migration an indian story that’s hardly discussed in india

The Kala Pani Migration: An Indian Story That’s Hardly Discussed in India

When used in the diaspora, 'Kala Pani' refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.