Clem Seecharan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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In fact, those who travel on the same ship, whether they were Brahmins or Kshatriyas or Kurmis or Chamars or people who were seen as being from a very low caste, they had to integrate, they had to work within this framework.
And that is why I say the social revolution began there and it continued onto the plantations.
In fact, men and women who travel on the same ship saw themselves as Brahmins.
jihadis or jihadins, ship brothers and ship sisters.
And that relationship became so strong that it was almost forbidden for such people's family to intermarry.
And I think that that process was magnified by the fact that people were able to retain Islam as well as Hinduism in the
Brahmins, lower caste people, all were in the same, literally in the same boat and on the same plantations.
Neha?
Just to confirm the fact that they were a Dalit.
Exactly.
And just one final point, Misha.
I do not know how Orthodox Hinduism, for instance, which is still very strong there, Sanat and Herm, how that could have been maintained if it hadn't been for the minority of Brahmins who were taken to the Caribbean.
because they themselves were conscious participants in this process, because they started, in order to counteract, to make a living, but also to counteract the Christian proselytizers who had come in, because they had a whole set of heathens there as they saw them.
But those Brahmins,
soon started not only to minister in the homes of people who were known to be a very low caste, with whom they would never have associated with in India.
Not only did they go to their homes to do the pujas and to do all the religious work and to recognize these people as human beings, but they also start to take cooked food from these people.
And for me to take cooked food from you, if you're known as a dilator and untouchable, that itself was a social revolution of great significance.
And for me, that is what epitomises this new identity that was being shaped.
Are you keeping this bit?
Well, I think a lot of people hold on to this idea that this was a new system of slavery.
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