GTAngler posted:Billy Ram Balgobin posted:caribny posted:seignet posted:In the nineteen hundreds India endured alot famines, and always did. Suh, the Luckhoos thought of easing the deprivation of few by bringing them to BG. Today, it is called humanitarian. I doan think Indo domination was on their mind. Besides, back then, the buccra ran everything, who would believe back then they would relinquish control of the colony. The Indians were in servitude, the blacks were the teachers, nurses, and many other uppity jobs, the coloreds were the adminstrators of the colony and the Amerindians were in the bush.
Well it was and at the time the black/colored as well as the Indian elites were jockeying to end white domination of Guyana. Rather than working with the black/coloreds the Indian elites wanted to turn British Guiana into an Indian colony.
Indenture was also ended around that time because it was NOT a humanitarian system.
Jagan was more interested in unity with the Africans than the Portugese. He was bitterly opposed to pro-Indian leaders during his time.
This was told to me by one of Jagan's inner circle. A rice farmer from the East Coast Demerara. The Soviet Union offered Jagan weapons. They would refuse some rice shipments and smuggle arms in them. Jagan refused because he didn't want more bloodshed. Some may disagree with that and call him naive but a true leader thinks of his people first. The only similarities between Jagan and Jagdeo are the "Jag" and they are both Indo-Guyanese.
Jagan was a loud-mouthed whimp, the opinion of my uncles who were close to him. The only people he was good at cussing were the Americans and Brits!