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Indo-Guyanese or Guyanese Indians, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing during the British Raj. They are a subgroup of Indo-Caribbean people.
Between 1835 and 1918, 341,600 indentured labourers were imported into British Guyana from India. [ 4 ] From 1852, Christian missionaries attempted to convert East Indians during the indentured servitude period, but this was met with little success.
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The largest ethnic group are the Indo-Guyanese, the descendants of indentured labourers from India, who make up 39.8% of the population, according to the 2012 census. [10] They are followed by the Afro-Guyanese, the descendants of enslaved labourers from Africa, who constitute 29.3. Guyanese of mixed heritage make up 19.9%. [10]
In Guyana the holiday is celebrated in May commemorating the first arrival of indentured labourers from India to the country, on May 5, 1838. On this day, the workers arrived in Guyana to work in sugar plantations. Their descendants today comprise 44 per cent of Guyana's population of over 750,000. [11]
Lionel Luckhoo (1968) Sir Lionel Alfred Luckhoo KCMG CBE QC (2 March 1914 – 12 December 1997) was a Guyanese politician, diplomat, and lawyer, famed for his 245 consecutive successful defences in murder cases.
Cheddi Jagan, former President of Guyana, dentist, and the Father of the Nation; Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President of Guyana, former President of Guyana, and former Prime Minister of Guyana; Syed Kamall, British MEP for London 2005 - 2019; Edward Luckhoo, politician and Governor-General of British Guiana and Acting President of Guyana
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers [1] from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.