Indian indenture system
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The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from India were transported to labour in various overseas European colonies, beginning shortly
Newly arrived indentured labourers from India in Trinidad, c. 1897
Artistic representation of the first Indian workers seeing the island of Mauritius from a ship in 1834
Indenture Memorial, Kidderpore, Kolkata
Plaques of Indenture Memorial, Kidderpore, Kolkata
Guyana
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Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Suriname to the east, Brazil to the sout
Indian indenture system
…working at the end of their indenture. On 16 November 1844, the British Indian Government legalised emigration to Jamaica, Trinidad and Demerara (Guyana). The first ship, the Whitby, sailed from Port Calcutta for British Guiana on 13 January 1838, and arrived in Berbice on 5 May 1838. Transportation to…
Kaieteur Falls is one of the world's most powerful waterfalls.
Rupununi Savannah
A large part of Guyana's territory is covered by the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest.
The Anomaloglossus beebei in Kaieteur National Park, endemic to Guyana