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Lomarsh Roopnarine
- June 19, 2022
THE late Caribbean novelist George Lamming wrote eloquently, “For those Indians hands, whether in British Guiana or Trinidad, have fed us all. They are, …
- June 12, 2022
THERE has been a resurgence of attention on Indians in Guyana and the wider Caribbean emanating from, I suppose, the discussions on Indian Arrival …
- June 5, 2022
IN the preceding weeks, I addressed three of the many historical wrongs of Indian indenture in British Guiana (BG). The first is the unclaimed …
- May 29, 2022
LAST week, I addressed how the colonial state shifted the financial responsibility of sending Indians back to their homeland from them to the labourers, …
- May 22, 2022
FOR over a month, in this space, I have been addressing some “unexplored” areas, namely, unclaimed remittances, of the Indian experience in British Guiana …
- May 15, 2022
I EXPLORE here the savings indentured Indians sent back to India and whether the amount of savings sent back revealed another side of indenture …
- May 8, 2022
LAST week, I provided a journey on how savings from indentured Indians were remitted from British Guiana to India. Despite the well-defined regulations on …
- May 1, 2022
IN 2014, at an Indian conference in Trinidad, I delivered a paper to a packed audience on the dynamics of Indian immigration to the …
- April 24, 2022
IN a few weeks, Guyanese will celebrate Arrival Day, notably, the arrival of Indians to Guyana following the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth …