Clem Seecharan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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They stayed on because they were recreating a world.
Of course.
And they were able to exploit a variety of niches in the village environments on the periphery of these plantations.
So you had a kind of symbiotic relationship between the villages where people were pursuing their particular skills and developing village communities.
But at the same time, during the harvest season, because they'd recreated the Indian family as a kind of corporate economic unit, some members would be sent out to the plantations to earn cash during the harvest season on the plantations.
Neha?
Yes, just to add to what Neha is saying here.
My maternal great-grandmother came from a low caste Parsi, which...
would be a Dalit caste.
And she came from the district of Ganda, which is on the border with Nepal.
And she was 20 years old when she was taken to British Guyana in 1909, unaccompanied by anybody.
And from Brij Lal's study of Fiji, the late, great Professor Brij Lal, an Indo-Fijian historian, we can extrapolate from that to say that
The overwhelming majority of women who were taken on the indentureship, certainly to Fiji and possibly to the Caribbean, were not accompanied by anybody at all, which was a clear indication of what Neha has been talking about, that for some of these women, their husbands had probably died.
There were many...
They were married at 14.
90% of the girls in this area, in Eastern UP and Western Bihar, were married at the age of 14.
So many of them would have been widows.
Some of them would have been deserted.
But what we have to understand also is that there was a culture of migration which had been opened up in the context of the expansion of British colonialism.
The British Guyana case is especially interesting because when indentureship was abolished, the last indentures were cancelled in April of 1920.
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