Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad (Caribbean Studies Series)

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In 1833, the abolition of slavery within the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers within the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis be aware of the Indian descendants’ processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting whilst trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct.

In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage turns out less central.

In this collaboration in response to center of attention groups, in-depth interviews, and commentary, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, circle of relatives, and day-to-day life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but additionally the resilience of this culture within the face of modernization and globalization.

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