Indian Arrival Day commemorative magazine 2007
Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean
Theme - Indian indentureship on cocoa, coconut and rubber plantations in Trinidad
It is not well known today that South Asian/East Indian immigrants indentured on estates other than sugarcane plantations. When the price of sugar in the world market fell in the mid-1880s, cocoa, coconut and rubber became alternative crops cultivated for export. Cocoa surpassed sugar as the most valuable export crop in Trinidad during, and just after Indentureship, and Indians were at the forefront of this agricultural enterprise. Indians worked in cocoa estates in Diego Martin, Lopinot, Sangre Grande, Grand Couva, Oropouche, Siparia, Fyzabad and Avocat. In 1920, cocoa beans made up about 43 percent of the British colony's total export.
From World War 1 (1914-1918) until 1921, copra [from coconut] prices rose rapidly and production doubled with the additional labour of Indians. They worked on coconut estates in Cocal and Ortoire along the Manzanilla-Mayaro Road, and Cedros and Icacos in the south-west peninsula of the island. A few hundred Indians were also indentured on rubber estates in Trinidad, and perhaps Guyana. As early as 1910, about 3000 acres of land were grown with Castilloa rubber mainly in Rio Claro. Later, the Para [Hevea Brasiliensis] variety was cultivated in Talparo, Ecclesville, Phoenix, Guayabe, Vessigny, Biche, Matura and Sangre Grande.
May-June 2007
11 x 8 ½ inches. Glossy pages and cover.
ISSN 1683-4143
80 pages with advertisements and articles.
Available through mail service ONLY.
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Postal address:
Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council (ICC)
10 Swami Avenue, Don Miguel Road
San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
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Divali festival souvenir magazine 2007
Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean
Theme - Steps of the Hindu Marriage Ceremony
Marriage is one of the most-important of the sixteen sanskars [sacraments] in the life of a Hindu. It is no wonder, therefore, that so many relatives, friends and well-wishers are invited to witness the ceremony. Deities are also invited to witness and bless the marriage. They are invoked by the presiding pandits through the chanting of verses in Sanskrit from the ancient Vedas. The marriage does not only establish a bond between two individuals but also between two families. It is an elaborate and lavish affair with numerous rites and rituals lasting three to four days. The main ceremony takes place at the bride's place under a mandap or maro [canopy] beautifully decorated with electric bulbs, colourful fabrics and flower petals. Each step has its own function and significance.
October-November 2007
11 x 8 ½ inches. Glossy pages and cover.
ISSN 1683-4143
96 pages with advertisements and articles.
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US$15 (includes handling, registration and foreign postage).
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Postal address:
Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council (ICC)
10 Swami Avenue, Don Miguel Road
San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
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Book reprint now available
Caribbean Indian Folktales
Collected by Kumar Mahabir
Illustrations by Angali Dabideen & Preddie Partap
Foreword by Professor Vibert C. Cambridge
Written as a textbook for secondary schools and as a collector's item for personal pleasure, Caribbean Indian Folktales is an interesting, authentic and useful book. It is the first and largest collection of its kind to be written in the original English dialect of the storytellers. Each tale is also accompanied by a Standard English version which has been sensitively written so as to retain the spirit and rhythm of the original narration. The book consists of a collection of 25 stories which have been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth from India to the Caribbean over a century and a half. The tales were tape-recorded from tradition-bearers in Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, and Grenada since 1980.
2005. xviii + 164 pp.
5½ x 8½ inches. Paperback.
ISBN 976-95049-2-0
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US$25 (includes handling, registration and foreign postage).
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Postal address:
Chakra Publishing House
10 Swami Avenue, Don Miguel Road
San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
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