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Reply to "Document - Indian Immigration to British Guiana."

Django posted:

Gilly,

question for you have you read any info about the Indian Colonization Scheme of British Guiana proposed by Luckhoo and Nunan.

 

MH in his article alludes to this.  So we had British Guiana, then under the control of the sugar barons and the British colonial authorities, who squeezed out the emerging black and colored middle class from any involvement in the governance of the colony. And while all this is happening an immigrant arrives and announces plans to colonize the country.

So I guess the idea was that the blacks and coloreds would have had two masters, one of them being a newly arrived immigrant group who had no committed to the country at the time. Indentures had the right of return and quite a few in fact did exercise that right.

FM
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