Abdul Rahim, Lascar Rigger

Shipboard rigger and labour organizer · Age-of-sail labour composite

Abdul Rahim, Lascar Rigger is represented within approximately 1750–1820 CE and Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, and British East India Company maritime labor routes. Research “lascar” as a shifting European employment category rather than an ethnicity; recruitment ports and intermediaries; Bengali, Gujarati, Arab, Malay, African, and other sailors without flattening; rigging and sail handling; East Indiamen and regional craft; monsoons; shipboard food, prayer, language, discipline, wages and allotments; injury and mortality; legal status in London and other ports; desertion; slavery and coercion distinctions; family remittance; war and private trade.