Neha Hui
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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All the workers were working similar jobs.
The hierarchy based on occupation couldn't exist anymore.
It's not that there was no hierarchy, but the hierarchy was more on racial lines rather than caste lines.
Also, you know, coming together in the ships, living together in the sleeping quarters, eating together meant that these prohibitions on interdining or these physical segregation could not be continued.
Sex ratio was skewed, which meant that intermarriage cohabitation was quite common.
In fact, in some instances, people of lower caste were considered better options by plantation management because they were less troubled.
We've not spoken very much about the experience of women.
And that is actually quite interesting because on the one hand, yes, there was a lot of sexual harassment, coercion and so on right from the time of recruitment.
However, there's also evidence that many of the women who went were women who were widowed, who were destitutes.
Many of the recruitments were from pilgrimage areas.
where women and men were recruited from, often under false pretence.
But then many of these women were in the pilgrimage sites because they were widowed and they were sent away by their families at the death of their husbands.
And they lived under extreme conditions of austerity with very little financial support.
So for some of them, this signing of contract was also an act of agency given the very limited resources
The Indian diaspora in the different colonies have a very distinct identity in themselves, which is, of course, influenced by India.
But then it is distinct.
Say, for example, in Trinidad and Suriname and British Guiana, there is a very strong Indo-Caribbean identity there.
During the time of decolonisation, these people of Indian background played extremely important roles in every sphere of life, in politics, in literature, and I'm sure Clem will tell you, in sports.
Of course.
A distinct identity did exist, but then it was influenced by their background in India.
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