What is a Coringhee coolie?

Answer 1

Oh, dude, a Coringhee coolie was a term used during the British colonial era in India to refer to laborers who worked in the tea plantations. They were essentially hired hands doing the hard graft in the fields. So, like, if you ever time-traveled back to that period and someone called you a Coringhee coolie, you'd be in for a rough day at work.

Answer 2

Well, darling, a Coringhee coolie was a term used during the British colonial era to refer to laborers from the Coromandel coast of India. These coolies were often hired to work on plantations or construction projects in various British colonies. So, in a nutshell, a Coringhee coolie was basically a fancy way of saying an Indian laborer doing hard graft under less than ideal conditions.

Answer 3

"Coringhee" refers to the Indian(s) (mainly Telugu people) from Southern India who emigrated to colonial Burma (Now Myanmar) across the Bay of Bengal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in search of livelihood.

"A Coringhee coolie" refers to such an Indian immigrant working in colonial Burma as an unskilled laborer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.