This thoroughly-researched and well-documented book looks at several of the key aspects of the phenomenon of Indian indentured labour in the West Indies, from beginning to end-from the methods of recruitment in Northern India, the conditions of potential labourers in the Calcutta depots and aboard ships in transit, through conditions on the plantations in British Guiana (Guyana) and the protests and strikes against abuses, to the final abolition campaign in India and its success in 1918.