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The elusive El Dorado : essays on the Indian experience in Guyana / Basdeo Mangru.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mangru, Basdeo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indians--Guyana--History.
- East Indians.
- Immigrants--Guyana--History.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- Race relations.
- Guyana--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Guyana.
- Guyana--Race relations--History.
- India--Emigration and immigration--History.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 138 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [2005]
- Summary:
- The Elusive El Dorado is a thoroughly researched collection of essays on the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean. This fascinating book focuses mainly on the indenture and postindenture historical periods. It includes a list, with dates of arrival, of emigrant ships that landed in Guyana from Calcutta and Madras. Indians interested in researching their roots will find this information invaluable.
- Contents:
- 1 Stifled at Birth: Private Emigration from the Bombay Presidency 1
- 2 Disparity in Emigration from Calcutta and Madras 13
- 3 Hook-Swinging, the Fertility Ritual 23
- 4 The Problem of Indian Wife Murders 33
- 5 The Return Passage Entitlement 51
- 6 Race Relations in the Indenture Period 67
- 7 The Redoubtable Bechu 83
- 8 C. F. Andrews, Impressions of British Guiana: An Analysis 95.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.
- Collection of previously published articles.
- ISBN:
- 0761832475
- OCLC:
- 62879672
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