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Dr. Kumar Mahabir
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Dr. Kumar Mahabir, Assistant Professor
University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT)
Chairman, Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre Co. Ltd. (ICC)
E-mail: [email protected]
Historical indentureship sites and monuments in the Bharatiya diaspora
Establishing Indian indentureship sites, sculptures and monuments ensures the experiences and contributions of the indentured labourers are acknowledged, remembered and passed on to future...
The 1964 ethnic cleansing of Indians from Wismar, Guyana
In 1964, politically-instigated racial turmoil raged throughout British Guiana (now Guyana) as the Caribbean/South American country prepared for independence. Accompanied by rioting, strikes had...
Education trends in the Indian diaspora
Every year, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) and other examining bodies and education ministries in the region announce CXC results in the same format:...
Invitation for 103rd Zoom meet by Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre on Should Indians in the Diaspora demand reparation for indentureship?
The Indian indenture system was a scheme of bonded servitude in which more than one million Indians were transported to labor in European colonies,...
The marginalisation and exclusion of Indo-Caribbeans in the CXC History syllabus [Part 2]
At a webinar on Zoom recently, I presented part of a research paper I had originally delivered at a conference at the University the...
The marginalisation and exclusion of Indo-Caribbeans in the CXC History Syllabus [Part 1]
At a webinar on Zoom recently, I presented part of a research paper I had originally delivered at a conference at the University the...
On Indo-Caribbean postgraduates, ABDs, PhDs and professors
In all Caribbean academic conferences, seminars, webinars, panel presentations and roundtables, there are few Indo-Caribbean researchers, scholars and intellectuals. Given that they are a...
Guyana Government closes chapter on Dr. Rodney’s death – Time to reopen the 1964 Wismar ethnic cleansing atrocity (Part 2)
Nandlall added that Rodney’s untimely death highlighted how the then ruling People’s National Congress (PNC) government “contaminated the entire state apparatus and used the...
Guyana Government closes chapter on Dr. Rodney’s death – Time to reopen the 1964 Wismar ethnic cleansing atrocity (Part 1)
The government of Guyana should be highly commended for honouring Dr. Walter Rodney, who was killed in a bomb blast on June 13, 1980...
Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Guyana, Marxism, Race, Politics and the USA (Part 4)
(...continued from Part 3)
Ramdath Jagessar continued:
The black trade unions were also seen as weak and tired. In contrast to them was young Cheddi a...