A British Labor Settlement Experiment and the Socioeconomic Experience of the Chuah Tamil Settlement in British Malaya

• Main Authors: Ranie, Thivya, Sundara Raja, Sivachandralingam
• Format: Article
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2024
• Subjects: DS Asia; HD Industries. Land use. Labor
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/47153/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547923000133

We explore the socioeconomic experience of a group of south Indian Tamil laborers and their families who established the Chuah Tamil agricultural settlement in British Malaya during the Great Depression. These were laborers who, though unemployed, refused to be repatriated to south India. Progressin...