Clem Seecharan
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199 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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I think the early period you discussed in your book certainly indicated
You know, there were slave-like conditions and slave-like practices on the plantations.
But you can't extrapolate from that and paint the whole thing in that sense.
Yes, it lasted 75 to 80 years.
And people were very enlightened.
People understood.
People were returning.
Some who had returned went back to the Caribbean.
or went back to Fiji.
Now, we knew little about this.
As a descendant of indentured labourers, I had no idea until I was probably in my thirties as to where, what part of India these people came from.
It was a closed book.
As V.S.
Naipaul said, apart from the fact, as he put it memorably, that the poverty of these people, and if you go to India today, these still remain two of the most deprived parts of India.
Their poverty was immemorial.
It went back many, many centuries.
And here you had...
People, many of whom, certainly in the later stages of indentureship, were making a conscious effort to find a new life.
But this was never discovered in families anywhere in the Caribbean.
Well, I tracked down most of my relatives because on their transport for the land that they owned in Guyana, their names would be listed, but it would say X Avon 1884, which means that he came on the ship
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