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Caribbean Masala - Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad (Hardcover)
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Caribbean Masala - Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad (Hardcover)
Series: Caribbean Studies Series
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In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the
import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean
under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis
concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing,
assimilating, and adapting while 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 seems less central. In
this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and
observation, 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, family, and daily life.
Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of
assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also
the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and
globalization.
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