Ranie, Thivya and Sundara Raja, Sivachandralingam (2024) A British Labor Settlement Experiment and the Socioeconomic Experience of the Chuah Tamil Settlement in British Malaya. International Labor and Working-Class History, 105 (SI). pp. 120-134. ISSN 0147-5479, DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547923000133.
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We explore the socioeconomic experience of a group of south Indian Tamil laborers and their families who established the Chuah Tamil agricultural settlement in British Malaya during the Great Depression. These were laborers who, though unemployed, refused to be repatriated to south India. Progressing from subsistence farming to small-scale agricultural production, their settlement evolved into an organized, socioeconomic system. It was also a critical field experiment for the British to assess the viability of a self-generating labor pool. In this article, we examine the social history of the settlers and the development of the Chuah Tamil colony within the context of Britain's overarching desire to create a labor source. Our study contributes to the reconciliation of microsocial history and colonialism, as well as to global labor history more broadly, by situating the settlers' experience and the settlement itself in relation to historical contemporaries.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Tamil laborers; settlement; land colonization; Great Depression; Federated Malay States; British Malaya |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of History |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Dec 2024 07:10 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2024 07:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/47153 |
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