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 Encyclopaedia of the Guyanese Amerindians written by Lal Balkaran and published by Lba Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Directory of Global Professional Accounting and Business Certifications written by Lal Balkaran and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Directory of Global Professional Accounting andBusiness Certifications "In a globalized world, employers are confronted by abewildering variety of professional qualifications, some valid,some less weighty and some spurious and fraudulent. This excellentcompilation enables the reader to touch base with suchorganizations and explore their true credentials through access totheir whereabouts including Web sites. It is additionally pleasingthat updates will be provided via the publisher's own Website." --Professor Dr. Gerald Vinten Deputy Principal, Thames GraduateSchool, Ilford, London Past president, chairman and committee chair, and member ofseveral professional bodies (including the Institute of InternalAuditors, Royal Society of Health, CIPFA, and AAT) "I've often wondered what the 'alphabet soup' after somecolleagues' names means and how impressed I really should be. Now Ican find out!...This directory will be a valuable reference guidefor human resource professionals and anyone else who wants to knowwhat those letters mean and how seriously to take them." --James Roth, PhD, CIA, CCSA President, AuditTrends "The Directory of Global Professional Accounting and BusinessCertifications by Lal Balkaran is an indispensable referencesource for anyone involved in the international accounting,auditing, and business professions. It is global, comprehensive,accurate, and easy to use. It is like having a personal contactbook to all the world's professional organizations." --Belverd E. Needles Jr. Ernst & Young Alumni Professor, DePaulUniversity Organized as a directory for easy reference of accounting andbusiness designations, designatory letters, and contact informationof all disciplines, Directory of Global Professional Accountingand Business Certifications contains over 960 bodiesadministering well in excess of 2000 designations and designatoryletters in 145 countries. This handy, yet comprehensive, directoryalso provides an index with a country-by-country listing of theprofessional designations that exist there.
Download or read book Through Faith Luck written by Lal Balkaran and published by Scarborough, Ont. : LBA Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Accounting Auditing and Finance written by Lal Balkaran and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 200 professional associations, 120 pieces of authoritative literature, 65 well-known fraud cases, 62 accounting firms (including the origins and growth of the Big Four), 55 regulatory statutes, 30 frameworks, and much more, this unique book shows in a chronological sequence a range of select issues and events that have impacted and led to the growth of the professions of accounting, auditing, and finance since 1800. The origins and factors that gave rise to the different types of accounting and auditing are all here. Over 1,200 well-researched issues and events are classified in the twelve chapters found within this book.
Download or read book Pressing Issues Facing the Nation written by Tahir Mahmood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a seminar held in New Delhi, Nov. 9-10, 1991 and most relate to India.
Download or read book India in the Caribbean written by David Dabydeen and published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Centenary Celebration of the Arrival of Indians to British Guiana 1838 1938 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jahajin written by Peggy Mohan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Calcutta to Trinidad they went, the girmitiyas, crossing two oceans to reach their new homes on the other side of the world. jahajin illuminates for us the extraordinary experience of that jouney, the train ride from faizabad to calcutta, the passage down the hooghly. the three-month voyage around the stormy cape and up the Atlantic to Trinnidad, where the weary migrants settled into life as indentured labourers on the sugar estates. The novel opens with the narrator, a young linguist, talking to 110-year-old Deeda, who came to the caribbean on the same ship as her great great grandmother. Deeda speaks of leaving her village in basti with her son and sailing across the seas to "Chini-dad", the land of sugar, and about the life and friendships she built on her estate.Nested within this larger story is the dreamlike myth of Saranga, torn between her monkey-lover and her prince. Deeda's stories of a lost world captivate the younger woman, encouraging her to make the journey back across the kala pani. Alive with compelling characters and the lilt of Trinidad Bhojpuri, Jahajin gathers up the various narratives of relocation and transformation across a century in a tale that is part history and part fairy tale.
Download or read book Home Away from Home written by Laxmi Mansingh and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maharani s Misery written by Verene Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labour with indentured Indian labour. This is the story of one Indian woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the 19th century.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora is the first comprehensive survey of Indian communities around the world. Over 30 contextual features show the initiatives taken by these communities and the contributions they have made both internationally and to their host societies, in areas as diverse as literature, cuisine, popular culture, sports and political life. The greater part of the book consists of 44 country/region profiles covering all parts of the world. Written by over 60 scholars from across the globe, most of whom are from the diaspora, the encyclopedia provides insights into the experiences of a people about whom much is often assumed but little is actually known. The recent expansion of the Indian diaspora, now some 20-million strong and growing, is a social transformation of global significance. Many members of the diaspora have reached the highest levels of global commerce and trade, international public service and diplomacy, the professionals and academia. In addition, the creative literature from and about the diaspora holds a distinctive and distinguished place in the world's literary imagination.
Download or read book Freedom Festivals and Caste in Trinidad After Slavery written by Neil A. Sookdeo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-05-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. SookDeos book shows the relevance of the past to the present by using the case study of Trinidad that highlights the crippling disadvantages that accrue to any people experiencing segregation, no matter the era or system of government. The study challenges notions of free labor, caste and free immigration, especially as it applied to the Caribbean region at the end of slavery and Emancipation (1838) in the British Empire. One thread of commonality with more radical studies of the past is that colonialism perpetuated a caste society similar to the one experienced under slavery. In Trinidad, this was true not only in labor but in education and even when the authorities responded to mass festivals and other freedoms. Such a study is prescient and relevant today, where opportunities for healthy race and economic relations within nations such as Trinidad were lost. This has been to the detriment of national growth and development in all aspects of Trinidads life. The irony for the East Indians arriving in nineteenth-century Trinidad was that if some of them had left the worst features of caste-ism behind, they were entering another rigidly caste-structured society in the New World. The ostensibly free British citizens of India, coveted as substitutes for slaves after Emancipation, had the historical destiny to contribute to the free labor system in Trinidad, but they paid a heavy cost. In general studies of the island nation, Indo-Trinidadian indenture is separated from labor history; this author sees a continuum of many labor regimes including slavery, peonage, indenture of many stripes, and free labor. The US has unearthed evidence in the 1990s that new forms of indented immigration continue in our time. When East Indian history is written as part of Caribbean labor history, we see a story of courage, of pre-industrial people learning how to organize and demand human rights, to survive and make progress with the slowly increasingly opportunities of capitalism. This work reveals much about transitions in society generally, and about the transition from slavery to free labor more specifically. That transition is, for Trinidad, a summary of the daily struggles of laboring adults and children who succeeded as "immigrants" against unimaginable odds. A largely illiterate, male population - ill-prepared for western, multi-racial societies -anonymous behind studies that focus on numerous regulations, platitudes, gross statistics and averages come to life in this study. This study humanizes "caste" and "outcaste" groups who knew nothing of Trinidad and it shows what indenture contracts meant in the "East Indians" day to day life on Trinidads plantations. Many Indians who did not succumb during the three-month voyage from British India to British Trinidad, died of poor health and diet on the plantations, or after expulsion from the estates when they could no longer work, some were found dying on the roads. Individual deaths on ships, beatings and whipping of indented workers and leaders, medical and food inadequacies (on Walkinshaws Estate in 1846), abuse of indented laborers, their wives and children are connected with real people and names. Especially damning of British-sponsored indenture was its relegating of Indians to pass-carrying prisoners of an anachronistic apartheid state; Indians became the largest sub-group of prisoners allegedly for violating rules that were unfair or hard to understand. The untruths told Indians about high wages at nearby "farms" and outright abductions of men and women, and capricious extension of "contracts" are juxtaposed with other contemporaneous labor migrations. In other words, Portuguese, Chineseand free African indented migration to Trinidad occured at this very moment in time, yet Indians were probably the most abused single group. SookDeos study connects this to the "spirit of the times" where colonial elites and pla
Download or read book Global Indian Diaspora written by Jagat K. Motwani and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chalo Chinidad written by Jang Bhagirathee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chalo Chinidad is the true tale of Mohan, the protagonist, who left his motherland during the British oppression to go to a faraway land. Chinidad, as it was referred to during those days. The story is a complete documented presentation of the life of the Jahajis, fictional in projection, but true as a story. This book is for young adults and mature audiences.
