Many Indians travelled from India to the Caribbean ... difficult and dangerous. Many indentured labourers became ill. A number of workers were killed by lions during the construction of the ...

Instead, Hindustani remains the correct and respectful designation for the descendants of Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean.

I write regarding Dr Devanand Bhagwan’s letter “Hindustani, not Girmitiya, is the correct and respectful designation for descendants of Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean ...

Many Indians journeyed out of India to supplant the loss of slave labour in the former European plantation colonies of Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and the Caribbean from the early nineteenth ...

They "agreed to be indentured labourers to escape poverty and famine with many bringing their families to be part of sugar plantations in Africa and the Caribbean", it said. The demand for Indian ...

As Kumar notes in his book, between 1834 and 1920, close to one and half million Indians left their home to work in the sugar plantations of the British and European colonies in the Caribbean, South ...

The 164th anniversary of the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourer aboard the SS Truro in 1860 was marked on November 16. Some 345 men, women and children from Madras docked in Durban ...

PM Modi’s visit to Guyana highlights India’s expanding role in the Caribbean forging stronger bonds in energy and defence ...