A History Of Indians In Guyana
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The Settlement of Indians in Guyana, 1890-1930
Author | : D. A. Bisnauth |
Publisher | : Peepal Tree Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The author focuses on the crucial period when Indian indentured laborers became a permanent part of Guyanese society. It explores both the inner processes of Indian settlement and the beginnings of that community's political involvement with the wider society and relationships with the Afro-Guyanese.
A Short History of the Guyanese People
Author | : Vere T. Daly |
Publisher | : MacMillan Education, Limited |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Indians in Guyana
Author | : Basdeo Mangru |
Publisher | : Basdeo Mangru |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780967009308 |
India and the Shaping of the Indo-Guyanese Imagination, 1890s-1920s
Author | : Clem Seecharan |
Publisher | : Peepal Tree Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
When the first East Indian intellectuals emerged in British Guiana at the end of the nineteenth century, most of their compatriots were still working as indentured or free labourers on the colony's sugar estates. Indians were conscious that they were looked down on as barbarous 'coolies' by other sections of the population. In response, the intellectual elite constructed a view of India, drawn from the writings of Max Muller and Tagore, which provided the Indo-Guyanese community with a sustaining sense of self-esteem and the sources of its resistance to colonialism. Focusing on individuals such as Joseph and Peter Ruhomon, JA Luckhoo and WH Wharton, the study looks at the way the beginnings of the nationalist movement in India stimulated such individuals to start defining the nature of their presence in the New World. Seecharan argues that while the vision of 'Mother India' stimulated the community's cultural revival, it constrained the way it thought about Guyana. "Dr. Seecharan's research is meticulous and his analysis penetrating. This is why, despite its specific Indian focus and slender look, India offers much insight into the broader history of Guyanese society as a whole." Frank Birbalsingh Clem Seecharan was born in Guyana. He currently teaches on the Caribbean Studies programme at the University of North London.
The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-1873
Author | : Mary Noel Menezes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2019-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317827503 |
These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Arising from Bondage
Author | : Ron Ramdin |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2000-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814775486 |
Arising from Bondage is an epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830's through World War I hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they labored on the sugar estates. Unlike the Africans their status was ambiguous--not actually enslaved yet not entirely free--they fought mightily to achieve power in their new home. Today in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. This study, based on official documents and archives, as well as previously unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, fills a major gap in the history of the Caribbean, India, Britain and European colonialism. It also contributes powerfully to the history of diaspora and migration.
Joseph Ruhomon's India
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of the West Indies Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789766400958 |
This reissue of an 1894 pamphlet celebrates Joseph Ruhomon as the first Indian intellectual in British Guiana, now Guyana. He wrote at a time, Seecharan notes, when self-deprecation was an instinct...and the construction of this essay was an admirable accomplishment.
Caribbean Masala
Author | : Dave Ramsaran |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496818075 |
Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central. In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization.