Product Review

Maharani’s Misery is a documentary study of a particular woman labourer on her way from Calcutta to Guyana in 1885. The author, Professor Verene A. Shepherd, states that the book is an effort to contribute to the excavation of gender-differentiated data of the indenture experience, and of “the exercise of social power and authority, through the medium of socio-sexual manipulation, by empowered males over less empowered women.”