Indians in Trinidad

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neel,

And a lot of Guyanese people claim that one of their great grandfathers or grandmothers are Madrasi. And another thing, if you go to many websites regarding Guyana, it says Urdu, Hindi, and TAMIL are languages spoken in Guyana. Not only that, many Guyanese Tamils have given up the Tamil identity long ago because they were afraid to be called "Madrasi", and the ironic thing is that they were originally referred like that by coolie chamars of Bihar! The identity crisis of the West Indies is the same in FIJI! Many people don't want to be referred as Tamils, and speak Hindi, but KAVADI AND THEEMITHI, which are 101% pure Tamil festivals are practiced by ALL INDIANS!

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I am a Guyanese you guys could ask me questions so it could help you and me understand where we came from.

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What I could tell You is that 10 % of guyanese is from Madras

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See website I think ut should be helpful. http://www.saxakali.com/Saxakali-Pub.../recastgwa.htm

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Sridat,

10%? That cannot be true, I know many Guyanese people, and they tell me they have "Madras" in either their mother's or father's side of the family. Not only that, many have origins from Andhra Pradesh, another South Indian state.

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Most Guyanese and Trinny people that I know care very little for their Indian roots and find pride in being Guyanese or Trinny. They will even be offended if called Indian.

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Mike:

Very nice to hear that. After all, to those people who came as indentured laborers, the 'pride' of being Indian mattered very little. After all mother India could not provide for them. Mother 'Hindu' India, in most cases, did not even think of them humans.

Wait.. Who does mother India represent? Who does mother India provide for? People like those who sought refuge in far away corners of the world, in alien lands and harsh conditions, are THE INDIANs.

When you said those people of Indian extraction find pride being Guyanese or Trinny, could you care to explain why?

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Sridat Rambarran is surely from Madras.

He is actually Sridar Ramabadran.

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Hi guys, I dont think any of you guys know anthing
about the Tamil Culture in Guyana. As far as I am concerned Tamils in Guyana has maintained their Cultural Traditions to this day since their Forefathers left madras over 175 years ago. As a matter of fact a lot of the old traditions and customs have changed a lot in India, in Guyana these traditions has been preserved. Yes there are a lot of Tamilians who converted to christians, look at the state of Kerela. Guyanese who migrated to the USA still carry their old traditions with them. There are "madrasi" temple all over New York.

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Hello to all! I'm from Peru and I just want to say that I was fortunate to visit Guyana and I LOVED it. I was there for two weeks. I love your beautiful people, your culture, food, etc. I will definitely go back.