East Indian Dispersion

This project covers Indians that have left India in the last 300 years, and settled in different continents, regions and countries. East Indian Dispersion Blog

(I'm working on a genealogy project for a friend. She is Trinidadian, but looking into where her family came from in India. I mentioned Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) as three main cities--British centers--of emigration in the 1830s. She is researching the Ramdial surname. Labels: 1830s, Bombay, Calcutta, India, Madras, Ramdial, Trinidad.)

In upcoming weeks, we'll talk more about the main cities in India and other South Asian countries that Diaspora Indians came from (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras), and some of the islands and countries they settled, such as Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, Barbados, and Britain.

UNIT C3 - Video: "World's Apart"

History

• Historic India
• South Asians in America before Columbus?

Caribbean

• Emancipation: The Caribbean Experience
• East Indians preparing rice, Jamaica (circa 1890)
• East Indian girls preparing rice, Jamaica (date unknown)
• Hussay Festival, Westmoreland, Jamaica. Labels: East Indians, Festival, Hussay, Jamaica, Westmoreland
• OHM: Hindus in Guadalupe and Martinique Part 1
• OHM: Hindus in Jamaica Part 1
• Out Of Many Cultures The People Who Came: Indians
• Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad, W.I.)
• Caribbean Ancestry

North America

• Probing South Asian Gangs in North America
• Echoes of Freedom: South Asians Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 / Silicon Raj: Making a Different to America's Future
• FoRK Archive-South Asian Gangs in NY/NJ

South America

• Indian Indentured Immigration to Guyana
• Surinam Dia Hindu Celebration
• Guiana 1838 - a film by Rohit Jagessar - Synopsis
• The Long Journey to Today: East Indians in Guyana

Europe

• South Asian Migration Histories Timeline
• What Was Her Story?
• “Londonstani" Reveals Desi Diaspora Gang Culture

Africa

Asia

• Malaysian Indian Minorities' Human Rights
• Bangkok's surprising touch of India

Australia

Pacific Ocean

Resources

• Indian Bloggers List: List of bloggers of Indian origin, residing in any part of the world
• India Office Family History Search
• East Indians in the Caribbean : colonialism and the struggle for identity : papers presented to a Symposium on East Indians in the Caribbean, the University of the West Indies, June, 1975

Other Links

• Kamala Harris
• Yendi Phillips