Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre (ICC) has released its latest magazine commemorating Indian Heritage Month (May 2017) in Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean). The theme of the magazine, which marks the ...
2020 has been dedicated to the commemoration of 100 years since the termination of the system of indentureship in the Caribbean. It is very well known, for example, that the Whitby, the first ship ...
I am writing to you regarding the Communiqué from the 46th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM in Georgetown, which was held from 25 to 28 February. On the issue of ...
Colonial archives are rarely in colour. Instead, history is documented in black and white – its grave epochs of colonial violence and inconsequential minutiae in the same repeating archival shades of ...
Can we also classify indentureship as a crime against humanity, and in the dialogue, then, where does it fit?” This paper will look at the impact that indentured servitude had in the Caribbean, and ...
The University of West Indies Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles announced that the Caribbean is celebrating the centenary (March 1917-March 2017) of the end of Indian indenture. But evidence to ...
Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3/4, EAST-INDIAN WEST INDIANS (SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER, 1986), pp. 27-49 (23 pages) ...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar says indentureship was a” deliberate and conscious act to enslave Indians” who were brought to the Caribbean as “new slaves”.
Nalini Mohabir: “Several countries in the Caribbean have been culturally and politically shaped by indentured migration.” As Asian Heritage Month comes to a close, Mohabir shares some of her thoughts ...
On the fronts of 19th-century postcards displayed in Caribbean shops, women in traditional Indian styles portrayed the islands as lush and exotic tourist destinations. The models posed coyly, dressed ...