SOUTH INDIANS ON THE PLANTATION FRONTIER IN MALAYA

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth boards and yellow titles to the spine, with illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with 15 figures, 8 plates and 20 tables. A near fine copy, the binding tight and square, with bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, corners and along the bottom edges of the boards. The contents, with a little spotting to the top edge and fore-edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, that has a light indentation to the bottom of the rear panel and a small hole to the bottom of the front flap fold. Price clipped to the front flap.

A study through of Tamal laborers on a Malayan rubber plantation through colonial times, Japanese occupation in World War II and independence. The first study of migrant South Indians, 'it is important to our understanding of modern plantation sociology and the structure of plural societies in the Old World' (front flap).