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Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten
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"Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten", The Conversation, June 6, 2023:
"My father never spoke to us...
The Case for Reparations for Post-Slavery Indentured Servitude
Anthropologist, author and University of Guyana lecturer Dr. Kumar Mahabir recently presented a research paper at the Anton de Kom University in Suriname on...
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:...
Hindu temples desecrated and robbed in Trinidad, fanatics scrawl Bible verse on wall
The reality that Hindus are not safe in any part of the Abrahamic-dominated world was once again vindicated when two Hindu temples were desecrated,...
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...
Hindu families exploited by funeral homes in Trindad & Tobago
The Hindu community vis-a-vis Covid is being exploited by institutions that are supposed to serve and protect its welfare. Worse, is the inability of...
Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Guyana, Marxism, Race, Politics and the USA (Part 1)
Cheddi Jagan was first elected Chief Minister of Guyana in 1953. He became the first person of Indian descent to be head of a government...
Bharatiya community in Barbados
Barbados is located in the Caribbean near Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Martinique. It is 34 kilometres (21 miles) in length and up to...
Bharatiya Diaspora Studies in universities in Bharat
Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) who live in the Caribbean, and in the Caribbean diaspora, are descendants of indentured, immigrant labourers. They were brought...