Colonial Coolie Labor and Worker Intimidation in British Ceylon: Manuscript Labor Correspondence from Puttalam, 1922
Puttalam labor correspondence dated October 1922 records coercion within British Ceylon’s colonial coolie labor system, where maistries and “coolie masters” controlled the recruitment and movement of South Indian migrant workers. One letter states that “your monthly Coolie Masteries” came to No. 44, 5th Street “with stick,” abused the writers, and.....
