Plantations Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia

This volume originated in a conference on 'Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia' held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in September 1990. The contributions to this collection focus on the production of rubber sugar tea and several less strategic plantation crops in colonial Indochina Java Malaya the Philippines India Ceylon Mauritius and Fiji (although geographically anomalous both the latter are included because of the centrality to their sugar plantations of indentured labour from India).