Kala Pani : migration to and indenture in British Guiana

[@kausalyabahadur7667]

These videos should be included in history classes. West Indian history taught in schools is incomplete without this crucial information.

[@syedmaricar9946]

Finally got bonus for all the patience, no divide and rule practiced.

[@nirmalaganesh4594]

Very good information and much needed and appreciated. Thank you.

[@israelkingston2635]

I am a Jamaican born to a Jamaican father 🇯🇲and Guyanese mother 🇬🇾I found out that Guyana had an uprising before Haiti and Jamaica and before the American Revolution even happened the Berbice uprising and its videos on KZbin talking about it and articles on google and books are being published about the maroons that were in Guyana that the British killed and Britain Cheat Guyana out of their independence they were supposed to get their independence 1990 but Britain and America feared that British Guiana was going to powerful like Cuba because they were developing faster than some of the Caribbean islands so they ripped the document and they said the White House has a bunch of documents on Guyana when it was called British Guiana back then and even now than any other countries documented in their files

[@bigfoot135]

@mentalno.178 It's called Guyana now, neibouring Venezuela and Suriname. It was British Guiana when it was ruled by the English.

[@colleencolleen4665]

True the Berbice Rebellion was successful for 1 year before the Dutch with the help of the Amerindians who were paid for each Head and or Limbs of African enslaved peoples captured were able to take back the County of Berbice from Kofi (Cuffy) the Leader from the Gold Coast now Ghana.

[@VishnuRamdin-xe7yd]

Guyana independence should have been in 1965 not 1990.guyana independence was in 1966 four years after jamica which is still now an independence country not republic.King Charles is the head of state of jamica.

[@lezchislett51]

Another interesting indentured story from nearly 200 years prior is the book White Cargo

[@tomboharry2664]

Actually I came from Kalabari in Eastern Ijaw from southern Nigeria. I'm particularly interested with the word Kala which means "small", so when you add the word Kala to Pani which will means small plate. We still use the word "Pani" today but remember that it was a borrowed word from the erstwhile colonial masters due long trade both the legitimate and illegitimate trade. I am historian by training and honestly I am so much interested in Guyana... and that is because I have no trouble in understanding some of the documented berbice Creole words which were now extinct...

[@ncguy8902]

KALA PANI are 2 Hindi words meaning black water. it has nothing to do with being borrowed from colonial masters. It is referring to crossing the ocean from India to the Caribbean

[@Sthmohtwenty]

@@ncguy8902 in Guyana when ppl say kala it used as the eldest

[@andymetternich3428]

​@@SthmohtwentyKala(for Hindi speaking Indians anywhere)means Black.

[@Sthmohtwenty]

@@ncguy8902 and what it cal for crossing the ocean to fiji Mauritius south Africa....etc why it only cal like that for crossing to the carebeeehbn

[@2freakout]

"Kala" sound of this word, is also used by Muslims to address your mother's sister. Eg. my mother sister's name is Nara, then I would address her as Nara Kala

[@richardsingh5827]

Interesting video

[@imichealrayapah3084]

This is the truth which is still hidden under the soil of history.All the indentured countries should join to together as a CommonCrossing People to make the history and memory of indentured labourers as well as Slavery included in United Nation Education System. This subject is vital to humanity to draw awareness and consciousness on all the prejudice injustice discrimination suspicion hostility and racism still exist because of ignorance of root of history and memory.The falsification of history by the west has a purpose for division and hostility.A very educational video to bring us all in the field where ever we all belong to the to the motherland through sea cross and sugarcane field.

[@joevip76]

I'm with you, my history is so buried, forbidden, and controversial it's about time we stand up for the truth.

[@shanibisram2538]

I'm a Canadian born Guyanese. I believe if you can contact the british national archives of indian indentured labourers, you might be able to find out more info. You might have to pay for records but i believe its possible. You can also view some of this information online

[@MR-te6eh]

Is there any possibility for Guyanese to trace their ancestry? I note names were incorrectly recorded. Are there any records in the Guyanese archives? Thank you.

[@ganeshsookram4287]

In 2018 I find out where my fore parents came from at the Guyana archive in Georgetown but it was not an easy find but I had a copy of my great grandfather birth certificate that help me n yes during times some of your name spell different for example my last name is spell Sookram but original it is spell Sukhram. My fore parent on my dad side came from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 1892 hope I'll find where my mom side from next year

[@MR-te6eh]

@@ganeshsookram4287 ok, thank you. Appreciate you taking the time to respond. I don't have much information available to me and yes, some of the names have indeed changed so it's limiting my chance of finding anything but I will give it a try nonetheless.

[@indy3240]

@@ganeshsookram4287 this is AMAZING! My mom is from Guyana and my dad is from Trinidad so I’m trying but just starting out!! It would be such a blessing to find my people🥹

[@calbertramphal1308]

@@indy3240 interesting indeed is the fact that you are desirous of finding your roots, such a noble idea, further it's interesting too if those that are alive and kicking around today, are they sought after?

[@kamaldastkar7551]

Watch about Indentured Indians here... the Indian Indentured labourers were treated like convicts with penalties & punishment kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3fXk3iGr9RjrMk

[@shafeeemamdee6638]

I am English born to a Mauritian Father. A few years ago I found out i have family in Trinidad. Seems I could have family in any one of the British occupied countries. I discovered my family arrived in Mauritius from Bihar in the 1850's. The ship that carried them from Kalkutta was called the Waterwitch,. With respect to the British being tight on accurately logging everything, and the Mauritius indentured labour records department, we found a photo of my forefather with a signed contract. The conditions were extremely poor and there must have been a sense that they were tricked!!

[@bevmeyers5898]

I have been doing research on my Guyanese family from 1880. Is there somewhere I could get the names of the estates?

[@altheaanderson918]

Rose hall skeldon blairmont

[@nati1359]

Guyana holds lots of records so it's best to contact the Town Hall in Georgetown. My Great Uncle was able to produce a family tree tracing his mother's family (my great grandmother) to one village in India. 😊

[@Sthmohtwenty]

@@nati1359 which village and name ...I also want to trace my family who was abducted I. Wb India...2 Guyana

[@subhranshuganguly2246]

I live in Calcutta. Were there any local Bengalees among the migrants as all the jeorneys started in Calcutta ?

[@aleemrahim6846]

Yes, many came from calcutta and Bengal. In 1838

[@evelynwalker5279]

Yes my Ancestry DNA indicates Bengal. Growing up I had no idea…

[@Joseph-o4y1t]

W Did they came from the State utter Pradesh in Calcutta . Those that came to Guyana . And why it took so long to to publish for all to see and read

[@VishnuRamdin-xe7yd]

The kala pani was the rough waves of Atlantic occean on their 3 months journey to the west indies.

[@andymetternich3428]

Is there a complete list of ships bringing laborers to then British Guiana?

[@OnariGeorgewillonari]

Kala pani are kalabari terms for small plate

[@JamalHarris-s8b]

Why is these story is not in our history book #slavebound

[@dharmascan]

Had Indian Hindus knew the kuldevi/ kuldevtas (gids/ goddesses) and maintained it. It woud have been veey easily traced to the village.

[@randhirpersaud4342]

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[@MorayHouseTrust]

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[@Rose-n8k7n]

They were tough to build ,paint, sewing, building structures, and more by then Nelson Mandela was born while Mahatma Gandhi cound'n bear the inhumanity against Indian's Muslims together in South Africa they built on thier land and shared thier land while farming in the land no stealing no fencing Indian's wer allowed only to buy food not traveling they stayed in thier land while still working on the plantation

[@Rose-n8k7n]

Actually migrated from South Africa to other continent and different countries mixed marriages diversity in the Indian's thought out the place once they all unite it will be a the largest race ever

[@VishnuRamdin-xe7yd]

If indians were so well off in british india ,why did they choose to come to the british west indies?i am so glad i was borned in guyana. I meet india indians in brampton canada every day but we dont have anything in common. My great great grandparent' were cremated at the babu jan cemetry in port mourant in berbice and i can still visit them in 2024.The british have account of each indentured immigrants. Labourer.I was told my foreparents were very happy in british Guiana as in india ."the land of poverty even today.garbage propoganda.india is not my mother land it is guyana.jai hind guyana.

[@VishnuRamdin-xe7yd]

If the india indians was so happy why did they choose to go to british guiana?They should thank the british for giving them employment and a better life in the west indies.People came from all over india not only call Kota.The Tamil from south india .