Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad

by Dave Ramsaran, Linden F Lewis, Linden F. Lewis

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Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award

In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496828259
• ISBN13: 9781496828255
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"