Settlement of Indians in Guyana, 1890-1930 by Dale Bisnauth

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"As Guyana struggles to overcome its legacy of ethnic hostility between Indo and Afro-Guyanese, this is a timely and unbiased study of the historical processes which led to these divisions." "It focuses on the crucial period when Indian indentured labourers became a permanent part of Guyanese society. It explores both the inner processes of Indian settlement and the beginnings of that community's political involvement with the wider society and relationships with the Afro-Guyanese." "It charts how in the process Indian peasants were transformed into industrialised wage labourers on the sugar estates, rice farmers and urban professionals and a distinctive Indo-Guyanese culture emerged. It looks frankly at the ethnic considerations which shaped relationships between the two groups." A contribution to South Asian Diaspora studies, this book presents a scholarly treatment of the role of ethnicity in a plural society and a cogent discussion of the processes of settlement and cultural change.

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