Download or read book A History of Indians in Guyana written by Dwarka Nath and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Settlement of Indians in Guyana 1890 1930 written by D. A. Bisnauth and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A History of Indians in Guyana With a Foreword by Sir Gordon Lethem written by Dwarka Nath and published by . This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Guyanese People written by Vere T. Daly and published by MacMillan Education, Limited. This book was released on 1975 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indians in Guyana written by Basdeo Mangru and published by Basdeo Mangru. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amerindians in Guyana 1803 1873 written by Mary Noel Menezes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Download or read book India and the Shaping of the Indo Guyanese Imagination 1890s 1920s written by Clem Seecharan and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Arising from Bondage written by Ron Ramdin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A History of Indians in Guyana By Dwarka Nath With a Foreword by Sir Gordon Lethem 2nd Rev Ed written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant 99840 and Canecutter 7074 written by Lal Balkaran and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant # 99840 and Canecutter # 7074: The Story of an East Indian Family in Guyana is a most valuable document that fills a major gap in the writings which deal with the East Indian presence in Guyana. In focusing on an individual family's history and its network of relationships, Lal Balkaran throws light on those more inward experiences of the Indo-Guyanese absent from more general historical and social studies and which so far only fiction has hinted at. From the arrival of his foreparents as indentured immigrants from India in 1905, through to his family's departure to Canada in the 1980s, Lal Balkaran writes a personal and individual narrative, but one which will be full of resonances for other Guyanese. Balkaran's research into this "micro-level" aspect of history helps us to even better understand in general the historical evolution of the Guyanese nation, and that of Caribbean people of Indian ancestry in particular. Indeed, the author knows his subject well, and has made a more than useful contribution to the history of Indians in the Caribbean. This almost 230-page book contains a wealth of information organized around nine chapters with the issues and events categorized into sixty sub-headings. There are 41 photographs and copies of authentic immigration documents, a 141-word glossary, a 50-book bibliography, a profile of Guyana with unique statistics, and an 800-word index. Many Guyanese will reminisce over their own experiences which are so identifiable to those detailed in this wonderful book. It also provides a social history of the decades of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, and contains invaluable lessons on growing up and dealing with struggles, challenges, failures, andaspirations. With a setting on a sugar plantation, various aspects of village life, education, religion, culture, race, and Guyana's fierce politics are analyzed to show their impact on the family unit in a multiracial society amidst the scars of colonialism and also in an independent Guyana. Poverty, human misery, exploitation, discrimination, and social as well as moral degeneracy in all their nakedness are carefully documented from actual experience. Amidst it all there is resilience. The author also talks about his five years spent in Guyana's hinterland among the Wapishanas, one of the nine Amerindian tribes now living in Guyana. A whole chapter has been devoted to these years to bring to light such issues and events like life in the savannas, hunting, farming, fishing, cultural activities, and everyday routine of the Wapishanas. Finally, emigrating and living in a first world country is examined in a broader context to cover such issues as adjusting to a new life in a multicultural environment. Understanding the forces that are constantly changing and reshaping the way immigrants think and live, shifting demographics, globalization, and the conduciveness of the new society to immigrants' successes and failures are all examined. Lal Balkaran has authored seven books on business and four on his native Guyana including Dictionary of the Guyanese Amerindians and Other South American Native Terms, Bibliography of Guyana and Guyanese Writers, and The Rupununi Savannas of Guyana: A Visual Journey. See www.lbapublications.com.
Download or read book Caribbean Masala written by Dave Ramsaran and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Joseph Ruhomon s India written by and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A History of East Indian Resistance on the Guyana Sugar Estates 1869 1948 written by Basdeo Mangru and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to assuage the notion of East Indian docility and passivity in the Caribbean by demonstrating that they responded resolutely to pressures. Based primarily on documentary evidence at the Public Records Office and the India Office Library and Records in England, the book argues that it was resistance, both overt and covert, rather than accommodation which asserted itself on the plantations in the indenture and post-indenture periods. Stymied by a lack of indigenous leadership and organization, and confronted by a powerful, influential plantocracy and repressive state apparatus, Indian workers had demonstrated consistently that they were not afraid to protest when aggrieved. The nearly 1000 strikes and 54 deaths attested to the militancy. By its concentration on relatively unexplored topics, this study seeks to make a contribution to Guyanese, Caribbean, and imperial history.
Download or read book Guyana Race and Politics among Africans and East Indians written by R.A. Glasgow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amerindians in Guyana 1803 73 written by Mary Noel Menezes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Download or read book A History of Indians in British Guiana written by Dvaraka Nath and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Animism and Folk lore of the Guiana Indians written by Walter E. Roth and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
