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 of emigrant ships, with dates of arrival that landed in Guyana from Calcutta and Madras. Indians interested in researching their roots will find this information invaluable.

The Elusive El Dorado: Essays on the Indian Experience in Guyana

History

Mangru, Basdeo

Americas

University Press of America

This thoroughly-researched and well-documented book looks at several of the key aspects of the phenomenon of Indian indentured labour in the West Indies, from beginning to end - from the methods of recruitment in northern India, to the conditions of potential labourers in the Calcutta depots and aboard ships in transit; through conditions of the plantations in British Guiana (Guyana) and the protests and strikes against abuses; to the final abolition campaign in India and its success in 1918.
"Basdeo Mangru is a careful and thorough scholar who has studies the sources in great detail, including records which have scarcely been examined by earler writers in the Indian diaspora... A sound contribution to the West Indian and Imperial history." - Donald Wood, University of Sussex 
 "Erudite, lucid scholarship. Mangru's meticulous research produces long-awaited and convincing evidence of the struggles of the Indians for ther rightful place in the Caribbean." - Frank Birbalsigh, York University, Toronto 
"... will make a lasting impact on Indo-Caribbean scholarship. He is meticulous, original, and above all commited to his subject." - David Dabydeen

Indenture and Abolition: Sacrifice and Survival on the Guyanese Sugar Plantations

Business & Money

Economics

TSAR Publications

Indians in Guyana: A Concise History from Their Arrival to the Present

Basdeo Mangru

A detailed scholarly essay on Indian migration, which, for the first time, studies the Indian background of the indentured labourers and explains the economic, political and cultural factors which encouraged migration.

Benevolent neutrality: Indian government policy and labour migration to British Guiana, 1854-1884

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hansib Pub. Ltd

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