#India in Trinidad

[ken45roh44kat78]

Heather Laltoo Ferguson -Author Interview

Heather Laltoo Ferguson was born on the Caribbean Island of Trinidad in 1951, and emigrated to Canada in 1970 where she attended Mt. Allison University in Sackville, N. B. She eventually made that Province her home, becoming an advertorial writer for a local newspaper and an online magazine in the City of Moncton. In a freelance capacity, she has also worked on writing projects for a number of…

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#Canada #Caribbean #Caribbean Folklore #Caribbean Literature #Fiction #Indentured Workers #Indentureship #India #India and the Caribbean #India in Trinidad #Literature #New Brunswick #Short Stories #Trinidad #Trinidad and Tobago #West Indies

[feline17ff]

Me: Oh that's so cool! My language has Caribbean dialects! I wonder how tho

*looks it up*

Slavery by any other name 🥲

#slavery #history #british colonialism #indentured servitude #india #caribbean #hindi #urdu #desi #imperialism #colonization #caribbean hindustani #suriname #trinidad and tobago #guyana #indian diaspora #caribbean history #slave labor #missing history #mauritius #indo caribbean #durban #south africa #forgotten history #fiji

[gravalicious]

In defiance of the orderly classification of race and religion, Indo-Trinidadians participate in and contribute actively to what is commonly labeled as the “African” Orisha tradition. Houk (1995, 135) describes these Indo-Trini participants as mainly interested bystanders, though he estimates their presence as being up to 10 percent of the Orisha tradition, including notable shrine leaders and drummers. The influence from Indo-Trinidadian culture moves beyond the individual level of participation in community to theological influences from Hinduism. Aiyejina and Gibbons remark, “So strong is the inter-penetration of Africa and India in Trinidad that, in the context of the Orisha tradition, Osayin is perceived by some Orisha practitioners as having an Indian dimension and Hindu deities are represented in many Orisha chapelles or in separate Hindu chapelles within the same yard” (1999, 198).9 In addition to there being Indo-Trinidadian adherents to Ifá/Orisha and the theological influence of Hinduism, there also exist cultural and political sites of support between sectors of the respective communities.

N. Fadeke Castor - Spiritual citizenship: transnational pathways from black power to Ifá in Trinidad (2017)

#orisha #spirituality #religion #race #creolisation #syncretism #trinidad #caribbean #west indies #africa #hinduism #india #asia

[geoazie]

Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Bhojpuri

Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 51 million people over northern India and Nepal, as well as Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa and the Carribean region. It is an official language in Fiji, and a recognized minority language in the Jharkhand region of India.

#bhojpuri #language #languages #indoaryan #indoeuropean #moodboard #aesthetic #india #nepal #south asia #asia #jharkhand #fiji #mauritius #south africa #trinidad and tobago

[havatabanca]

#trinidad & tobago #caribbean diversity #anti hinduism #world anti hinduism #religious converts #india #indo caribbean #hindu caribbean #prejudice #fiji #hinduphobia

[jalebi-o-shir]

😭😭😭 I mean. I’m not wrong.

#pakistani #indian #desi #india #brown #southasia #bangladesh #bengali #indocaribbean #guyanese #fiji #trinidad and tobago

[indizombie]

Caribbean women have roots in the Old World, but there has been no way of tracing where in Africa or India they come from. By insisting that English was the only accepted language of education and communication, other languages were broken, and the links to faraway continents turned flimsy. Still, despite the many problems in the Caribbean today, gender equality has become less of an issue. Women have taken the reigns of family and community. Women in public life and education today are trailblazers. In 2022, there are eight female heads of state and prime ministers in the Caribbean. In Barbados, both the president and prime minister are women. Simpson-Miller, who served for two terms. Dominica led the way by electing its female Prime Minister in 1980. Since then, Haiti, Bermuda, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago have followed suit by electing women as prime ministers. As Barbados’s intrepid and outspoken prime minister, Mia Mottley, said, women have had to work twice as hard to be half as noticed as men, and that obstacle has produced greater competence. The examples set by women now have set the stage to remove this burden for the next generation. Perhaps the defection of men in family life – absent fathers created out of slavery and perpetuated through that same trauma – has led to matriarchy in Trinidad and the Caribbean.

Ira Mathur, Indian-born Trinidadian journalist and writer

#Ira Mathur #Caribbean women #Old World #Africa #India #British Empire #English #Caribbean #gender equality #Portia Simpson-Miller #Mia Mottley #Barbados #Jamaica #Haiti #Bermuda #Guyana #Trinidad and Tobago #slavery #trauma #matriarchy

[chekovsphaser]

Helped my grandma sort out some old papers and she found a sack of her old stamps which she gave to me to add to my collection :)

#theyre mostly from switzerland where she lived in the late 80s early 90s #but theres one from india one from new zeland #and two from st lucia #as well as a few handfuls from other places in europe as well as trinidad and tobago and brazil

[zeebartels]

Wishing all my Trinidadians and ancestors a Happy Indian Arrival day 🔁 • @cutlassmagazine This picture captures the first Indian Arrival Day celebration in Trinidad on May 30th, 1945. The “East Indian Centenary” marked the 100th year of Indian presence in the nation. It took place in Skinner Park, San Fernando, and local leaders like Adrian Cola Rienzi (Krishna Deonarine) were present. Written statements from public figures, such as Gandhi, were read. But the festivities soon waned. By the 1970s the Divine Life Society, a Hindu sect, was the only group continuing the practice. It was named “Indian Emigration Day” and found little attention beyond the town of Chaguanas. There was a shift after the Indian Revival and Reform Association (IRRA) was founded in 1976 to tackle racism towards Indians and promote the culture. In 1977, an IRRA panel was assembled with Rajiv Sieunarine, Azamudeen Jang, Khalique Khan, Ramdath Jagessar, Anand Rameshwar Singh, Rajesh Harricharan, and Michael Shankar. The next year Rajnie Ramlakhan, Ashok Gobin, and Anand Maharaj joined. They issued a pamphlet in 1978 outlining the very beginning of Indian indentureship in 1845. It listed the names of the “jahajis” aboard the Fatel Razack ship and covered their history. The Trinidad Express newspaper promoted the document while The Guardian published an article by Kusha Haracksingh about the journey on the “kala pani” (black water). San Fernando Secondary School also held an event and the television show Mastana Bahar aired an Indian Emigration Day special. The IRRA worked with the Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS), Satnarayan Maharaj, on a showcase at Lakshmi Girls Hindu College, an SDMS-founded school, on May 27th, 1979. To recognize Indians as citizens, and not just emigrants, they jointly agreed to adopt the title “Indian Arrival Day” from then. Source: Scott He and Project Gutenberg #indocaribbeanculture #indocaribbeanhistory #hindi #urdu #hindiurdu #bhojpuri #hindustani #caribbean #westindies #westindian #southasia #southasian #desi #indian #eastindian #india #trinidad #trinidadandtobago https://www.instagram.com/p/CeL0Ssho-f4ZgBwR4qXDzSCY6BB3b8TEw5NPzg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#indocaribbeanculture #indocaribbeanhistory #hindi #urdu #hindiurdu #bhojpuri #hindustani #caribbean #westindies #westindian #southasia #southasian #desi #indian #eastindian #india #trinidad #trinidadandtobago

[professor-innocent-spell-home]

#Maldives Korea China Indonesia Vietnam India Taiwan Costa Rica Cuba Trinidad and Tobago Brazil Peru Uruguay Guatemala Venezu

[excursions-armenia]

Excursions-Armenia

#travel #armenia #traveling #trip #vacation #noravank #yerevan #туризм #экскурсии #moscow #india #philippines #vietnam #taiwan #asia #trinidad and tobago #tourists

[txttletale]

driving around the usa iwth 144 'not my president' bumper stickers entirely covering my car bearing images of the current presidents of albania, algeria, angola, argentina, armenia, austria, azerbaijan, bangladesh, barbados, belarus, benin, bolivia, bosnia and herzegovina, botswana, brazil, bulgaria, burkina faso, burundi, cameroon, cape verde, central african republic, chad, chile, colombia, comoros, costa rica, croatia, cuba, cyprus, czechia, djibouti, dominica, dominican republic, democratic republic of the congo, ecuador, egypt, el salvador, equatorial guinea, eritrea, estonia, ethiopia, fiji, finland, france, gabon, gambia, georgia, germany, ghana, greece, guatemala, guinea, guinea bissau, guyana, haiti, honduras, hungary, iceland, india, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland, israel, italy, ivory coast, kazakhstan, kenya, kiribati, kosovo, kyrgyzstan, laos, latvia, lebanon, liberia, lithuania, malawai, maldives, mali, malta, marshall islands, mauritania, mauritius, mexico, micronesia, moldova, mongolia, montenegro, mozambique, myanmar, namibia, nauru, nepal, nicaragua, niger, nigeria, north macedonia, pakistan, palau, palestine, panama, paraguay, peru, philippines, poland, portugal, republic of china, republic of the congo, republic of korea, romania, russia, rwanda, sao tome and principe, senegal, serbia, seychelles, sierra leone, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, somalia, south africa, south sudan, sri lanka, suriname, syria, tajikistan, tanzania, timor leste, togo, trinidad and tobago, tunisia, turkey, turkmenistan, uganda, ukraine, united arab emirates, uruguay, uzbekistan, vanuatu, venezuela, vietnam, zambia, and zimbabwe and i have to update them every time theres a presidnetlai election anywhere

#tattletxt

[sexypinkon]

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SOFT BOX GALLERY PRESENTS:

EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION of "Water and Spirit" - Nurturing the Soul of India 

Christine Norton Humanist Photographer

Sunday 6TH November, 2022  from 4:00pm -6:00pm

Exhibition continues until  26th November 2022.          

Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 3pm.

 at Soft Box Gallery, # 9 Alcazar Street, St. Clair, P.O.S. 

You are invited to attend "Water and Spirit" - 

 Nurturing the Soul of India, an exhibition of photography

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Water, light, song, meditation create balance. In Varanasi, Mumbai, Roget in India the Aarti, the Waters of the Ganges and Music of the drums are part of the rhythm of daily life."My art reminds us how finding the soul helps us find ourselves."                   ___________________________________________ Christine Norton is a humanist photographer. She combines years of work in international development with her interest in photography to focus on documentary photography and mixed media photography. Christine’s interest in capturing the emotion, and the complexity of everyday relationships and environments leads her to continually pursue evolving forms of expression in photography. She exhibited selected pieces of  her work on Varanasi, India at the 'Its Liquid' show at the Venice Biennale in Italy.

#sexypink/SoftBox Gallery #sexypink/Christine Norton Photography #sexypink/shows in Trinidad on now #sexypink/photography #India #tumblr/Christine Norton #tumblr/Water and Spirit #tumblr/India #tumblr/photography #Water and Spirit #Christine Norton #Soft Box Gallery #Trinidad and Tobago #mixed media

[zaphmann]

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[biprotagz]

can we plz disband the british monarchy

#lauren.txt #im not saying im happy she died but. the british monarchy is a family of colonizers who got their wealth by plundering their colonies #and screwing over people of color. and they still haven't apologized openly for what they did to jamaica india and their other colonial #conquests (as far as ik at least. i may be wrong but... reparations) #they need to be running checks to every single place they colonized. i hold france spain and portugal (+ others) to the same standard #also the us too. but yeah put an end to that shit. it's tired. #bye i forgot the british colonized my family's island (trinidad) too 💀💀

[gayforbagels]

Pouring one out for Afghanistan and Anguilla and Antigua and Aoteoroa and Barbuda and Australia and the Bahamas and Bahrain and Bangladesh and Barbados and Belize and Bermuda and Botswana and Brazil and Brunei and Canada and the Cayman Islands and Cornwall and Cyprus and Dominica and Egypt and the Islas Malvinas and Fiji and Gambia and Georgia (the country) and Ghana and Gibraltar and Grenada and Guyana and Hong Kong and India and Iraq and Ireland and Jamaica and Jordan and Kenya and Kiribati and Kuwait and Lesotho and Malawi and Malaysia and Maldives and Malta and Mauritius and Montserrat and Myanmar and Nauru and Nigeria and Pakistan and Palestine and the Pitcairn Islands and Qatar and St Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Helena and Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and St Vincent and Grenadina and Scotland and Seychelles and Sierra Leone and Singapore and the Solomon islands and Somaliland and South Africa and Sri Lanka and Sudan and Swaziland and Tanzania and Tonga and Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos and Tuvalu and Uganda and United Arab Emirates and United States and Vanuatu and Wales and Yemen and Zambia and Zimbabwe tonight

#text #op #dancing crabs #and many more #sorry if I missed you trust me when I say I am still popping the FATTEST bottle for u TONIGHT #edit: guys I copy pasted a shit ton of countries from fucking Wikipedia for a shitpost it’s not that deep #edit: the amount of y’all that are tagging this as ‘except us and Canada’ are missing the fucking point #it isn’t cute lol #EDIT: WHATS UP GUYS IT’S ME YA BOY COMING LIVE FROM. GLASS ONE OF WINE #I CHANGED MY MIND FUCK IT IM ADDING EVERYONE I MISSED INTO THE OP #AND ANOTHER THING #SOME OF YALL HAVE TO REMEMBER THERE ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN CANADA AND THE USA TOO #SAYING THE USA AND CANADA DOESNT DESERVE TO POP BOTTLES IS DISMISSIVE OF EVERY INDIGENOUS LIFE DAMAGED BY THE BRITISH EMPIRE #AUSTRALIA TOO #THE MONARCHY HAD A VERY PROMINENT ROLE ALONGSIDE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AND COLONIAL VIOLENCE #IN SETTLER HISTORY #ALSO TO ANY OF MY BRITISH HOMOES I AM SO SORRY YALL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT PROPAGANDA MACHINE RN #GFGFGFFGGG I’m not changing that