Drugb posted:.This is correct, they also whipped Babulall but he refused to change his name.
Show me proof that the British prevented Indians from practicing their culture.
In fact they DELIBERATELY allowed it to exist to ensure that Indians remained alienated from the black population and also unable to obtain education or access civil service jobs.
And they certainly didn't ban Bollywood movies from Guyana as they became available. On the other hand masquerade groups and other manifestation of Afro Caribbean culture was harassed by the authorities until after WWII.
This was all part of ensuring that most Indians remained trapped on the sugar estates to be used as cheap labor, and to ensure that they wouldn't join with the blacks to demand better working conditions.