South Asians in the Caribbean: a bibliography


Reaping rice in Trinidad (from India in the Caribbean, cited below.)



BOOKS AND DISSERTATIONS

Across the dark waters : ethnicity and Indian identity in the Caribbean /
   edited by David Dabydeen and Brinsley Samaroo.  London : Macmillan
   Caribbean, 1996.
     Series title:  Warwick University Caribbean studies.
       UCD   Shields   F1629.E17 A28 1996
       UCSC  McHenry   F1629.E17 A28 1996

Angrosino, Michael V.
     Outside is death : community organization, ideology, and alcoholism among
   the East Indians of Trinidad / by Michael V. Angrosino.  Winston-Salem
   [N.C.] : Overseas Research Center, Wake Forest University, 1974.
     Series title:  Medical behavioral science ; no. 2.
     Series title:  Developing nations monograph series : Series II.
       UCD   Shields   HC59.7.W352 no.2
       UCLA  Biomed    HV 5375.7 A593o 1974
       UCSB  Main Lib  HV5375.7.Z8 T743 1974
       UCSC  McHenry   HV5375.7.Z8T743 1974

Arya, Usharbudh.
     Ritual songs and folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam. / By U. Arya.  Leiden
   : E. J. Brill, 1968.
     Series title:  Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina ; v. 9.
       UCB   Music     ML207.S9 A8

Caribbean Asians : Chinese, Indian, and Japanese experiences in Trinidad and
   the Dominican Republic / edited by Roger Sanjek.  [Flushing, N.Y.] :
   Asian/American Center at Queens College, CUNY, 1990.
     Series title:  Asian/American Center working papers.
       GTU   Library   F1419.A84 C37 1990
       UCD   Shields   F1628.8.C37 1990
       UCI             F1629.O6 .C37 1990 Inaccessible until F96
       UCR   Rivera    F1628.8 .C37 1990
       UCSC  McHenry   F1628.8.C37 1990

Clarke, Colin G.
     East Indians in a West Indian town : San Fernando, Trinidad, 1930-70 /
   Colin G. Clarke.  London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1986.
     Series title:  The London research series in geography ; 12.
       UCD   Shields   HN246.S36 C58 1986
       UCI   Main Lib  HN246.S36 C58 1986
       UCLA  URL       HN 246 S36 C58 1986
       UCR   Rivera    HN246.S36 C58 1986
       UCSB  Main Lib  HN246.S36 C58 1986
       UCSC  McHenry   HN246.S36C58 1986
       UCSD  Central   HN246.S36 C58 1986

Cross, Malcolm.
     The East Indians of Guyana and Trinidad.  [London, Minority Rights Group,
   1972].
     Series title:  Report (Minority Rights Group) ; no. 13.
       UCB   Main      F2391.E2 C761 1972

East Indians in the Caribbean : colonialism and the struggle for identity
    : papers presented to a Symposium on East Indians in the Caribbean, The
    University of the West Indies, June, 1975 / with an introduction by...
    Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications, 1982.
        UCB   Main      F2191.E27 E2

Harricharan, John T. (John Thomas)
     The work of the Christian churches among the East Indians in Trinidad
   during the period of indentureship, 1845-1917 / J. T. Harricharan.  [Port-
   of-Spain, Trinidad] : Harricharan, [1975].
       UCLA  URL       BV 2848 T7 H37

Indenture & exile : the Indo-Caribbean experience / edited with an
    introduction by Frank Birbalsingh.  Toronto : TSAR, 1989.
        UCLA  College   F 2191 E27I52 1989 
        UCLA  URL       F 2191 E27I52 1989
 
Indentured Indians in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845-1917 : research papers.
   [Trinidad? : s.n., 1985?].
       UCB   Main      f F2119 .I53 1985

India in the Caribbean / edited, David Dabydeen, Brinsley Samaroo.  London
    : Hansib/University of Warwick, Centre for Caribbean Studies Publication in
    cooperation with the London Strategic Policy Unit, 1987.
        UCB   Main      F1629.E27 I51 1987

Indians in the Caribbean / edited by I.J. Bahadur Singh.  New Delhi :
   Sterling Publishers, c1987.
       UCB   Main      F2191.E27 I531 1987

Klass, Morton, 1927-
     East Indians in Trinidad; a study of cultural persistence.  New York,
   Columbia University Press, 1961.
       UCB   Anthropol F2121 .K6 1961
       UCB   Moffitt   F2121 .K6 1961

Klerk, Cornelis Johannes Maria de.
     De immigratie der Hindostanen in Suriname.  Amsterdam, Urbi et Orbi, 1953.
       UCB   Main      F2431.H5 K5
       UCI   Main Lib  F2431.H5 K55 1953
       UCLA  URL       JV 7356 K67i
       UCSD  SSH       F2431.H5 K55 1953 XX CIRC Annex

La Guerre, John Gaffar.
      Calcutta to Caroni: the East Indians of Trinidad; studies, edited by John
    Gaffar La Guerre.  [n.p.] Longman Caribbean; [distributed in the U.S.A. by
    Longman Inc., New York, 1974].
        NRLF            B 3 626 557

Lai, Walton Look.
     Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British 
    West Indies, 1838-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Pr., 1993. 370 pp.

Laurence, K. O.
     A question of labour : indentured immigration into Trinidad and British
   Guiana, 1875-1917 / K.O. Laurence.  New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.
       UCB   Main      HD4875.T7 L38 1994

Malik, Yogendra K.
      East Indians in Trinidad: a study in minority politics [by] Yogendra K.
    Malik.  London, New York, published for the Institute of Race Relations by
    Oxford University Press, 1971.
        UCB   Main      F2122 .M35

Mangru, Basdeo.
      Benevolent neutrality : Indian government policy and labour migration to
    British Guiana, 1854-1884 / Basdeo Mangru.  London : Hansib Pub. Ltd.,
    1987.
        UCB   Main      JV8501 .M351 1987

Mangru, Basdeo.
      A history of East Indian resistance on the Guyana sugar estates,
    1869-1948 / Basdeo Mangru.  Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, c1996.
      Series title:  Caribbean studies (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 4.
        UCB   Main      HD8039.S86 G896 1996

Mangru, Basdeo.
      Indenture and abolition : sacrifice and survival on the Guyanese sugar
    plantations / Basdeo Mangru.  Toronto : TSAR, 1993.
        UCB   Moffitt   HD4875.G95 M36 1993

Morton, Julie.
     1845-1995, a celebration / [written and produced, Julie Morton].
   [Trinidad : s.n.], c1995.
       UCLA  URL       F 2120 M67 1995

Muthanna, I. M.
      People of India in North America : United States, Canada, W. Indies &
    Fiji : immigration history of East-Indians up to 1960 / I.M. Muthanna.  2nd
    enl. ed.  [Bangalore : Gangarams Book Distributors], 1982.
        UCB   Main      E29.E37 M871 1982b

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
     The loss of El Dorado: a history [by] V. S. Naipaul.  London, Deutsch,
   1969. [history of Indians in Trinidad]
       UCB   Main      F2121 .N3

Nath, Dwarka, 1902-
     A history of Indians in British Guiana; with a foreword by Sir Gordon
   Lethem. Published with the authority of His Excellency, the Governor of
   British Guiana.  London, New York, Nelson [1950].
       UCB   Main      F2391.E2 N3

Nevadomsky, Joseph-john.
      The changing family structure of the East Indians in rural Trinidad / by
    Joseph John Nevadomsky.  1977.
        UCB   Anthropol GN4.6 .N499
        UCB   Main      308t 1977 870

Niehoff, Arthur, 1921-
     East Indians in the West Indies, by Arthur and Juanita Niehoff.
   Milwaukee, 1960.
       UCB   Anthropol GN37.M5 A3 no.6

Ottley, Carlton Robert.
      East and West Indians rescue Trinidad / C. R. Ottley.  [1st ed.].  Diego
    Martin [Trinidad] : Crusoe Pub. House, [1975].
        UCLA  URL       HN 245 T74 O88

Parmasad, Kenneth Vidia.
     Indian folk tales of the Caribbean : a first collection : salt and roti /
   researched, retold, introduced by Kenneth Vidia Parmasad ; preface by Gordon
   Rohlehr ; illustrated by Marquis Gittens.  Charlieville, Chaguanas, Trinidad
   and Tobago, West Indies : Sankh Productions, c1984.
       UCLA  URL       GR 120 S3 1984

Shepherd, Verene.
      Transients to settlers : the experience of Indians in Jamaica, 1845-1950
    / Verene A. Shepherd.  Leeds, England : Peepal Tree : University of
    Warwick, 1994.
        UCSC  McHenry   F1896.E2 S54 1994

Shiwcharan, Clement Toolsie.
     "Indians in British Guiana, 1919-1929: A Study in Effort and Achievement."
   Dissertation data: U. of Warwick [England] 1990. 382 pp.
   DAI citation:  DAI 1992 52(10): 3700-A. BRD-94927

Singaravelou.
     Les Indiens de la Caraibe / Singaravelou ; preface de Guy Lasserre.  Paris
   : L'Harmattan, c1987.
       UCLA  URL       F 2191 E27 S56 1987
       UCSD  SSH       F2191.E27 S56 1987

Smith, Robert Jack, 1930-
      Muslim East Indians in Trinidad : retention of ethnic identity under
    acculturative conditions / by Robert Jack Smith.  1963.
        UCI   Main Lib  F2121 .S57

Speckmann, J. D. (Johan Dirk), 1928-
     Marriage and kinship among the Indians in Surinam [by] J. D. Speckmann.
   Assen, Van Gorcum, 1965.
     Series title:  Samenlevingen buiten Europa ; 5.
       UCB   Anthropol GN4 .S2 v.4

The Still cry : personal accounts of East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago
    during indentureship, 1845-1917 / [compiled by] Noor Kumar Mahabir ; with a
    foreword by Selwyn R. Cudjoe.  Tacarigua, Trinidad ; Ithaca, N.Y. :
    Calaloux Publications, c1985.
        UCLA  URL       PM 7874 T7 S75 1985

Symposium on East Indians in the Caribbean (1975 : University of the West
   Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)
     East Indians in the Caribbean : colonialism and the struggle for identity
   : papers presented to a Symposium on East Indians in the Caribbean, The
   University of the West Indies, June, 1975 / with an introduction by...
   Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications, 1982.
       UCB   Main      F2191.E27 E2

Tyson, J. D. (John Dawson), 1893-
      Report on the condition of Indians in Jamaica, British Guiana and
    Trinidad / J. D. Tyson.  Simla : Government of India Press, 1939.
        UCB   Main      F1896.E2 T9 1939

Vertovec, Steven.
      Hindu Trinidad : religion, ethnicity and socio-economic change / Steven
    Vertovec.  London : Macmillan Caribbean, 1992.
      Series title:  Warwick University Caribbean studies.
        UCD   Shields   BL1168.T753 V47 1992
        UCR   Rivera    BL1168.T753 V47 1992
        UCSC  McHenry   F2122.V47 1992
        UCSD  SSH       BL1168.T753 V47 1992

ARTICLES

Aho, William R.; Brathwaite, Farley Race, Intergenerational Occupational Mobility, and Career Aspirations of African and East Indian Secondary School Teachers in Trinidad and Tobago International Review of Modern Sociology; 1977, 7, 2, July-Dec, 147-159. Ally, Bruce. Indo-Caribbean life in Guyana and Toronto: a comparative survey. Polyphony [Canada] 1990 12: 16-21. Angrosino, Michael V. Metaphors of ethnic identity: Projective life history narratives of Trinidadians of Indian descent. Journal of Narrative & Life History, 1995, v5 (n2):125-146 Bell, Robert R. Marriage and family differences among lower-class Negro and East Indian women in Trinidad. Race 12:1 (1970): 59-73. Bhargava, Sunita Wadekar. Caribbean Indians: curry and calypso. India Today, Jan 31, 1993, pp.48c-d. Bhatia, Tej K. Transplanted South Asian Languages: An overview. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, Vol. 11:2, pp. 135-159. Bhatia, Tej K. Trinidad Hindi: its genesis and a generational profile. In R. K. Barz and J. Siegel (eds.) Language Transplanted: The Development of overseas Hindi. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 179-196. Bhatia, Tej K. Trinidad Hindi: Three generations of a transplanted variety. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, Vol. 11:2, pp. 135-150. Carter, Marina Indian indentured migration and the forced labour debate. Itinerario, Spring 1997. Deosaran, Rames Some Issues in Multiculturalism: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago in the Post Colonial Era Ethnic Groups; 1981, 3, 3, 199-225. Dookhan, Isaac. The elusive nirvana: Indian immigrants in Guyana and the Des Voeux Commission, 1870-71. THE ELUSIVE NIRVANA: INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN GUYANA Revista/Review Interamericana [Puerto Rico] 1988 17(3-4): 54-89. Durbin, Mridula Adenwala Formal Changes in Trinidad Hindi as a Result of Language Adaptation American Anthropologist; 1973, 75, 5, Oct, 1290-1304. Emmer, P. C. Caribbean Plantations and Indentured Labour, 1640-1917: A Constructive or Destructive Deviation from the Free Labour Market Itinerario, Spring 1997 Emmer, P. C. Immigration into the Caribbean: the introduction of Chinese and East Indian indentured labourers between 1839 and 1917. Itinerario [Netherlands] 1990 14(1): 61-95. Eriksen,-Thomas-Hylland Indians in New Worlds: Mauritius and Trinidad. Social-and-Economic-Studies; 1992, 41, 1, Mar, 157-187. Glick,-Leonard-B. Epilogue: The Meanings of Ethnicity in the Caribbean Ethnic-Groups; 1985, 6, 2-3, 233-248. Hintzen, Percy C. Ethnicity, Class, and International Capitalist Penetration in Guyana and Trinidad Social and Economic Studies; 1985, 34, 3, Sept, 107-163. Jain, Prakash C. Exploitation and reproduction of migrant Indian labour in colonial Guyana and Malaysia. Journal of Contemporary Asia [Philippines] 1988 18(2): 189-206. Jain, Ravindra K. Overseas Indians in Malaysia and the Caribbean: comparative notes. Immigrants & Minorities [Great Britain] 1988 7(1):123-143. Jayawardena, Chandra Culture and ethnicity in Guyana and Fiji. Man 15, S 80, pp.430-50 and discussion 16:693-6 D 81; 18:190-1 Mar 83. Jayawardena, Chandra Family Organisation in plantations in British Guiana. IN Family and Marriage. Edited by John Mogey. Leiden: Brill, 1963. pp. 43-64. Kale, Madhavi Opening Salvo: Making a Labour Shortage in Post-Abolition British Guiana Itinerario, Spring 1997 Korom, Frank J. Memory, Innovation, and Emergent Ethnicity: The Creolization of an Indo-Trinidadian Performance. Diaspora 3/2(1994): 135-155. Korom, Frank J. The Transformation of Language to Rhythm: The Hosay Drum of Trinidad. The World of Music 36/3(1994):68-85. Korom, Frank J. and Peter Chelkowski Community Process and the Performance of Muharram Observances in Trinidad. The Tisch Drama Review. 38/2(1994):150-175. Korom, Frank J. and Peter Chelkowski A Festive Mourning. The India Magazine. 13 (January 1993):54-63. Magid, Alvin. Imperial administration and urban nationalism in British Trinidad. Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism [Canada] 1990 17(1-2): 95-105. Mangru, Basdeo. Indian government policy towards labor recruitment for the sugar colonies, 1838-1883. Journal of Third World Studies 1992 9(1): 118-138. Miller, Errol. The rise of matriarchy in the Caribbean. [East Indians in Trinidad] Caribbean Quarterly [Jamaica] 1988 34(3-4): 1-21. Mohan, Peggy The Rise and Fall of Trinidad Bhojpuri International Journal of the Sociology of Language; 1990, 85, 21-30. Mohapatra, Prabhu P. Longing and Belonging: The Dilemma of Return Among Indian Immigrants in the West Indies 1850-1950. IIAS Yearbook 1995, pp.134-155. Nevadomsky, Joseph Abandoning the Retentionist Model: Family and Marriage Change among the East Indians in Rural Trinidad International Journal of Sociology of the Family; 1980, 10, 2, July-Dec, 181-197. Nevadomsky, Joseph J. Changes in Hindu Institutions in an Alien Environment Eastern Anthropologist; 1980, 33, 1, Jan-Mar, 39-53. Nevadomsky, Joseph J. Changes over Time and Space in the East Indian Family in Rural Trinidad Journal of Comparative Family Studies; 1980, 11, 4, autumn, 433-456. Nevadomsky, Joseph Changing Conceptions of Family Regulation among the Hindu East Indians in Rural Trinidad Anthropological Quarterly; 1982, 55, 4, Oct, 189-198. Nevadomsky, Joseph Cultural and Structural Dimensions of Occupational Prestige in an East Indian Community in Trinidad Journal of Anthropological Research; 1981, 37, 4, winter, 343-359. Nevadomsky, Joseph Economic Organization, Social Mobility and Changing Social Status among the East Indians in Rural Trinidad Social and Economic Studies; 1984, 33, 3, Sept, 31-62. Nevadomsky, Joseph Social Change and the East Indians in Rural Trinidad: A Critique of Methodologies Social and Economic Studies; 1982, 31, 1, Mar, 90-126. Phillips, Daphne. Race and the role it plays in national life. [East Indian sugar workers] Caribbean Affairs [Trinidad] 1990 3(1): 186-198. Ramesar, Marianne D. Patterns of Regional Settlement and Economic Activity by Immigrant Groups in Trinidad: 1851-1900 Social and Economic Studies; 1976, 25, 3, Sept, 187-215. Roberts, G.W. and L. Braithwaite Mating among East Indian and non-Indian women in Trinidad. Social and Economic Studies 11:3 (1962):203-40. Rohra, S. K. Retention of Hindi as a Language of Social and Cultural Identification by East Indians in Guyana Sociolinguistics; 1986, 16, 1, June, 46-48. Ryan, Selwyn. One love revisited: the persistance of race in the politics of Trinidad and Tobago. Caribbean Affairs [Trinidad] 1988 1(2): 67-127. Sharma, Kailas Nath Changing Forms of East Indian Marriage and Family in the Caribbean Journal of Sociological Studies; 1986, 5, Jan, 20-58. Shepherd, Verene A. The dynamics of Afro-Jamaican-East Indian relations in Jamaica, 1845-1945: a preliminary analysis. Caribbean Quarterly [Jamaica] 1986 32(3-4): 14-26. Shepherd, Verene A. Emancipation through servitude: aspects of the condition of Indian women in Jamaica, 1845-1945. Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History [Great Britain] 1988 53(3): 13-19. Shepherd, Verene. Indian females in Jamaica: an alysis of the population censuses 1861-1943. Jamaican Historical Review [Jamaica] 1993 18:18-30. Shepherd, Verene A. Transients to citizens: the development of a settled East Indian community. Jamaica Journal [Jamaica] 1985 18(3): 17-26. Singh, Susheela Demographic Variables and the Recent Trend in Fertility in Guyana, 1960-1971 Population Studies; 1979, 33, 2, July, 313-327. Smith, R.T. and C. Jayawardena. Family and marriage amonst the East Indians of British Guiana Social and Economic Studies, v.8:4 (1959):321-76. Smith, R.T. and C. Jayawardena. Hindu marriage customs in British Guiana. Social and Economic Studies, v.7:2 (1958):178-94. Sookdeo, Anil. Indian West-Indians and the ethnic processes in Trinidad and Tobago with some reference to the Fiji Indians. Journal of Ethnic Studies 1988 16(3): 27-45. Speckmann, J.D. "The caste system and the Hindustani group in Surinam" IN Caste in overseas Indian communities. Edited by Barton M. Schwartz. San Francisco, Chandler Pub. Co.; Science Research Associates, Chicago, distributors [1967]. Spinner, Thomas J., Jr. Nationalism, Socialism, and Cultural Pluralism in Guyana Queen's Quarterly; 1977, 84, 4, winter, 582-592. van der Burg, Cors; van der Veer, Peter Pandits, Power and Profit: Religious Organization and the Construction of Identity among Surinamese Hindus Ethnic and Racial Studies; 1986, 9, 4, Oct, 514-528. Veer, Peter van der & Vertovec, Steven. Brahmanism abroad: on Caribbean Hinduism as an ethnic religion. Ethnology 30, Apr 91, pp.149-66. Vertovec, Steven 'Official' and 'Popular' Hinduism in Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Trends in Surinam, Trinidad and Guyana Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Series; 1994, 28, 1, Jan-June, 123-147. Vertovec, Steven. Religion and ethnic ideology: the Hindu youth movement in Trinidad. Ethnic and Racial Studies [Great Britain] 1990 13(2): 225-249. Wagner, Michael J. Rum, Policy, and the Portuguese: Or, the Maintenance of Elite Supremacy in Post-Emancipation British Guiana Revue Canadienne de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie / Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 1977, 14, 4, Nov, 406-416. Yelvington,-Kevin-A. Ethnicity "Not Out": The Indian Cricket Tour of the East Indies and the 1976 Elections in Trinidad and Tobago ARENA-Review; 1990, 14, 1, May, 1-12.

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