Indeed, the Indian peasant-Turned-indentured laborer faced a lack of choice, which, while not equivalent to the forced abduction of the African slave, must nonetheless be studied alongside it within an overarching framework of the epistemic and material violence of nineteenth-century global capitalist-imperialist formations. Without conflating the categories of slavery and indenture, the novel demonstrates that the indentured laborer's decision to "accept" indenture was prompted by the need to survive within a world of shrinking options for the Indian peasantry rather than a desire for personal mobility. In his novel Sea of Poppies, Indian writer Amitav Ghosh emphasizes the fact that while the indentured laborer was not a slave per se, the indenture of South Asian laborers developed in the belly of plantation slavery.
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