{ {{C’est un fait méconnu que les travailleurs engagés venus de l’Inde n’ont pas été uniquement exploités sur les plantations de canne à sucre. Cacao, noix de coco et caoutchouc ont suivi la chute du cours du sucre de canne au milileu des années 1880…
Autres thèmes traités dans ces nouvelles publications de l’Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council : Contes et légendes populaires de la Caraïbe, et Mariage dans l’espace indo-caribéen à Trinidad & Tobago.}} }

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{{Indian Arrival Day Commemorative Magazine 2007}}

Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean

{{Theme - Indian indentureship on cocoa, coconut and rubber plantations in Trinidad}}

It is not well known today that South Asian/East Indian immigrants indentured on estates other than sugarcane plantations. When the price of sugar in the world market fell in the mid-1880s, cocoa, coconut and rubber became alternative crops cultivated for export.
Cocoa surpassed sugar as the most valuable export crop in Trinidad during, and just after Indentureship, and Indians were at the forefront of this agricultural enterprise. Indians worked in cocoa estates in Diego Martin, Lopinot, Sangre Grande, Grand Couva, Oropouche, Siparia, Fyzabad and Avocat. In 1920, cocoa beans made up about 43 percent of the British colonys total export.

From World War 1 (1914-1918) until 1921, copra [from coconut] prices rose rapidly and production doubled with the additionallabourof Indians. They worked on coconut estatesin Cocal and Ortoire along theManzanilla-Mayaro Road, and Cedros and Icacos in the south-west peninsula of the island.A few hundred Indians were also indentured on rubberestates in Trinidad, and perhapsGuyana. As early as 1910, about 3000 acres of land were grown with Castilloa rubber mainly inRio Claro.
Later, the Para [{Hevea Brasiliensis}]variety was cultivated in Talparo, Ecclesville, Phoenix, Guayabe, Vessigny, Biche, Matura and Sangre Grande.

_ May-June 2007
_ 11 x 8 inches. Glossy pages and cover.
_ ISSN 1683-4143
_ 80 pages with advertisements and articles.
_ Available through mail service ONLY.
_ TT$40 (includes handling, registration andlocalpostage),
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_ Make check or money order payable to Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council.
_ Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council (ICC)
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_ San Juan,Trinidad and Tobago

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{{Divali festival souvenir magazine 2007}}

Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean

{{Theme - Steps of the Hindu Marriage Ceremony}}

Marriage is one of the most-important of the sixteensanskars[sacraments] in the life of a Hindu. It is no wonder, therefore, that so many relatives, friends and well-wishers are invited to witness the cere
mony. Deities are also invited to witness and bless the marriage. `
They are invoked by the presiding pandits through the chanting of verses in Sanskrit from the ancient Vedas.The marriage does not only establish a bond between two individuals but also between two families. It is an elaborate and lavish affair with numerous rites and rituals lasting three to four days.
The main ceremony takes place at the brides place undera mandapormaro [canopy] beautifully decorated with electric bulbs, colourful fabrics and flower petals. Each step has its own function and significance.

_ October-November 2007
_ 11 x 8 inches. Glossy pages and cover.
_ ISSN 1683-4143
_ 96 pages with advertisements and articles.
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_ US$15 (includes handling, registration andforeignpostage).
_ Make check or money order payable to Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council.
_ Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council (ICC)
_ 10 Swami Avenue,Don Miguel Road
_ San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
_ West Indies

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{{Caribbean Indian Folktales}}

Collected by Kumar Mahabir

Illustrations by Angali Dabideen & Preddie Partap

Foreword by Professor Vibert C. Cambridge

Written as a textbook for secondary schools and as a collector's item for personal pleasure, Caribbean Indian Folktalesis an interesting, authentic and useful book. It is the first and largest collection of its kind to be written in the original English dialect of the storytellers. Each tale is also accompanied by a Standard English version which has been sensitively written so as to retain the spirit and rhythm of the original narration.
The book consists of a collection of 25 stories which have been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth fromIndiato theCaribbeanover a century and a half. The tales were tape-recorded from tradition-bearers inTrinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, and Grenada since 1980.

_ 2005. xviii + 164 pp.
_ 5 x 8inches. Paperback.
_ ISBN 976-95049-2-0
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_ West Indies
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