Coolie Women Are in Demand Here

“Grierson concluded that the female emigrants consisted of four groups: prostitutes, the wives of men who had already been to the colonies and had come back to fetch them, destitute widows with no one to take pity on them, and ‘married women who have made a slip, and who have either absconded from their husband’s house with or without a lover, or who have been turned out of doors by their husbands.’ The widows were blameless. The colonies would gladly take them.” By Gaiutra Bahadur. (Spr. ’11)

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