Autobiography of An Indian Indentured Labourer: Munshi Rahman Khan (1874-1972)
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8175412437
Length
liv+271p., Plates; References; Glossary; 23cm.
Subjects
Rahman Khan (1874-1972), born in the village Bharkhari (Hamirpur, United Provinces), was 24 years old when he left for Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam (South America). At the age of 67, Rahman Khan, a practicing pathan Muslim, completed his autobiography entitled Jeevan Prakash in which he connects India, the land of his birth, with Surinam, the country in which he married, is a contract labourer and later becomes a plantation overseer and a teacher in Hindi ...