174th anniversary arrival of East Indian indentured immigrants in Guyana.
(the former colony of British Guiana)
Courtesy of the Government of Uttar Pradesh
May 5,
1838 is observed as the date of arrival of East Indians to Guyana, on
two ships the
Hesperus and
the Whitby. During the
period 1838 and 1917 more
than 200,000 East Indians arrived
on these shores to work on the sugar-cane plantations.
This year marks 174
years since indentured immigrants first arrived
Few of the descendants from Indentured records 850 BR 1902
My uncle Zamdin
