For more than an hour last Wednesday, Professor Clem Seecharan discussed and read excerpts from his latest publication Mother India‘s Shadow over El Dorado: Indo Guyanese politics & Identity 1890s-1930s outlining to the small gathering at Moray House some significant changes that occurred in the East Indian community during this period.
Between the 1890s and 1930s, the East Indian community in British Guiana experienced major political and social changes which Seecharan asserted were significantly influenced by the rise of an Indian intellectual class and the presence of a liberal press.
Seecharan is a Professor of Caribbean History and has been the Head of Caribbean Studies at the