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COMMEMORATING INDIAN INDENTURE ARRIVAL
April 28, 2005
to
The National Council for Indian Culture in Jamaica
3, Breary Avenue
Kingston, Jamaica
West Indies
Attn : Mrs. Beryl Williams-Singh, Chairman
Dear Indo-Jamaican family and friends,
Please accept and convey the congratulations from the people of St. Lucia and its Indian population on the 160th anniversary of the arrival of indentured workers from India.
We applaud your team who managed to win the support of multi-cultural heritage groups, organizations, and other governmentsâ .
Your determination to commemorate the ancestors and their precious contribution to the evolution of the Jamaican nation over the years will continue to inspire us.
Saint Lucia has a sizeable population who are descendants of indentured laborers from India that were brought to save the cultivation and processing of sugar cane.
The Palmyra brought the first, of thirteen, shiploads on May 6, 1859. A point of note: the last ship to bring Indian laborers to St. Lucia was the Volga, which sank off the coast of Vigie Point, near Castries on the night of Dec 10, 1893. It was carrying 156 Indians for St. Lucia and 487 for Jamaica.
All souls were saved; and those for Jamaica were taken there on the Jumna on Dec 22nd. So not only were the Volgaâs Indians jahajiâs, but they shared a strong bond, forged through the same tragic experience.
As you know Indians were indentured in fourteen different colonies in the Caribbean Basin/South America : Guyana (1838), Jamaica (1845), Trinidad (1845), Martinique (1853), French Guiana (1854) Guadeloupe (1854), Grenada (1857), Belize ( 1859), St. Lucia (1859 ), St. Vincent (1861), St. Kitts (1861), St. Croix (1863), Suriname (1873), and Nevis (1874).
So far some of these countries have been celebrated the 150th anniversary of arrival and acknowledged contribution of their Indians.
With the celebrations on Martinique in 2003 and on Guadeloupe in 2004, the way is being been paved toward inter-Caribbean, Indian, and international acknowledgement of this presence.
Integration, contribution, and acknowledgement across the whole Caribbean need to continue.
Remarkably, Guadeloupe chose a year long celebration where organizations, government-sponsored, family, and individual reflections by all segments of the population were encouraged.
An interesting report with photographs on the Guadeloupe commemorative events of 2004 can be found on-line here.
We hope to see this trend continue with the other islands.
Please keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Richard B. Cheddie
Columbus, Ohio
for
Saint Lucia Indian Heritage Interest Group.
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